Backpack International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 813516278
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2020–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2019
- Location
- Sunrise, FL, USA
- Phone
- 9176870327
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Youth Development – Religious Leadership
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $107,070
- Expenses
- $113,907
- Assets
- $4,651
- Liabilities
- $10,086
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- OSLYN RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- OSLYN RODRIGUEZ (PRESIDENT)
- ANGEL RODRIGUEZ (SECRETARY)
- ED WILSON (TREASURER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Share the love of Christ Jesus with children in need around the world by ministering to their spiritual, physical, social and academic needs, to equip them for success in school and life.
What it reported doing in 2024
Hosted a week-long vacation bible school for children in st ignatius village, guyana.provided backpacks filled with school supplies, hygiene products, clothing, shoes, etc.also supplied lethem regional hospital and surrounding clinics with medical scrubs for staff.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 14
- Growth: 80
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 79.3%; rating input score 79
- Program expense ratio: 74.6%; rating input score 75
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -6.4%; rating input score 20; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.04; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 2.17; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 15.2%; rating input score 18; 18th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 8.8% per year; rating input score 100; 58th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 12.6% per year; rating input score 100; 73rd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -47.3% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 79.3% of revenue deployed · 74.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $85K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2020 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 20/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 3/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 18/100.