Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 465444906
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2014
- Location
- Seabrook Islanbd, SC, USA
- Phone
- 9197249847
- Rating
- 70
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Nonmonetary Support N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $191,856
- Expenses
- $64,150
- Assets
- $438,846
- Liabilities
- $5,390
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
8 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Sharon Snyder (Director and Co CEO)
- Tory Kindley (Director and Co-CEO)
People named in this filing
- Mark Snyder (Director)
- Sharon Snyder (Director and Co CEO)
- Donna Traaen (Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide weekend food to public school children in need. The mission of Backpack Buddies Seabrook Island (BPBSI) is to provide a bag of nutritious food to children for weekends and school holidays. The children receiving the food are identified as being in need by school and county officials as being food insecure on weekends and school holidays. BPBSI is an all-volunteer organization that has no employees nor pays compensation or benefits. BPBSI raises funds and then the all-volunteer network purchase and pack individual bags which are delivered to the school for distribution to the individual child.
What it reported doing in 2025
Purchase food for children in need
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 95% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 100% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and program spending has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and liabilities are high compared with assets.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 55
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 85
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 33.7%; rating input score 34
- Program expense ratio: 90.5%; rating input score 91
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 66.6%; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 6.84; rating input score 97; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 3.8% per year; rating input score 100; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 16.9% per year; rating input score 100; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 24.4% per year; rating input score 100; 82nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 33.7% of revenue deployed · 90.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $58K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 8 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 5 filing years from 2021 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 34/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.