TravlerPack
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 883734431
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Arcadia, CA, USA
- Phone
- 6262410496
- Rating
- 91
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Services N.E.C.
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $88,293
- Expenses
- $97,092
- Assets
- $15,297
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
5 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- VICK LIU (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- VICK LIU (PRESIDENT)
- MAX KESSLER (TREASURER)
- TOOBA SHAHID (SECRETARY)
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
TravlerPack aims to keep refugees and displaced persons warm during the winter. We designed our sleeping bag to serve as a long-term, cost-effective alternative to traditional methods of staying warm such as burning wood and fuel.
What it reported doing in 2025
1. Fundraising: (a) fundraising is the soliciting of donations, grants, corporate sponsorships, and other means of raising money. Fundraising will be done in-person and online. (b) fundraising may be conducted by officers, board members, and volunteers. (c) fundraising may be conducted both in-person and virtually. If in- person, fundraising may be conducted during meetings with potential donors, social and networking events, and in-person presentations, workshops, and informational sessions. If virtually, fundraising may be conducted on the internet, whether through the organization's website, through various crowdfunding and fundraising platforms, or through online presentations and conferencing withe potential donors and partners. (d) fundraising will account for approximately 75-percent of the total time. (e) fundraising will be funded by donations, grants, and scholarships received by the organization. (f) fundraising allows the organization to fund the manufacturing, shipping, and distribution of winter kits and other products to aid refugees and internally displaced persons. The money raised allows the organization to manage and oversee distribution in various locations, perform on-site visits to build and maintain relationships with distribution partners, and evaluate other at-risk populations to expand distribution and aid. 2. Community outreach: (a) community outreach will include, but is not limited to, electronic communications, online content, and in-person presentations. The organization intends to create videos, literature, and presentations to engage different communities, raise awareness, and educate the public about the challenges of affected populations, the mission and activities of the organization, and what people can do to help. (b) outreach activities may be conducted by officers, board members, and volunteers. (c) outreach activities may be conducted online as well as in-person depending not he specific community the organization is attempting to engage with. (d) outreach activities will account for approximately 10-percent of the total time. (e) outreach will be funded by donations, grants, and scholarships received by the organization. (f) outreach activities helps the organization raise awareness about the problem the organization is trying to address and the solution it is trying to provide. Outreach may lead to further donations in order to the further the organization's primary purpose of manufacturing and distribution winter kits and other products to aid those in need. 3. Manufacturing, shipping, and distributing: (a) the organization works with partners to manufacture sleeping bags, winter kits, survival essentials, and supplies. The organization works with partners to ship the products to appropriate locations. The organization works with partners to distribute these products to populations and persons in need. (b) the officers of the organization will work with partners to manage the manufacturing, shipping, and on-site distribution. (c) products are currently manufactured in china, though the organization intends to pursue manufacturing in other locations based on the product, cost, and various other factors. The products are shipped from manufacturing facilities to the regions where the products will be distributed. The organization works with local partners where there are populations in need to have the products distributed. There is no geographical limitation and products will be provided to under-served and at-risk populations across the globe. (d) manufacturing, shipping, and distribution will account for approximately 10-percent of the total time. (e) these activities will be funded by donations, grants, and scholarships received by the organization. (f) these activities are directly related to the organization's mission of providing winter kits, essentials, supplies, and products to the improve the quality of life of affected populations in exposed, vulnerable, and dangerous living
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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 - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and revenue has declined or grown slowly.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 25
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 94.8%; rating input score 95
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -10%; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.16; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -24.6% per year; rating input score 0; 17th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -25.4% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 49% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 6 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 4 operating locations identified
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 94.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $92K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 5 people listed
- Consistency: 6 of 6 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 29/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 16/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.