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BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC

EIN 26-2627847 FORT WAYNE, IN

Revenue 2025
$960,891
Expenses 2025
$661,538

Program services were 87.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
O50
Classification
1000
Street
111 E WAYNE ST STE 555

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

Mission

BLESSINGS IN A BACKBACK MOBILIZES COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND RESOURCES TO PROVIDE FOOD ON THE WEEKENDS FOR SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE GO HUNGRY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK MOBILIZES COMMUNITIES, INDIVIDUALS, AND RESOURCES TO PROVIDE FOOD ON THE WEEKENDS FOR SCHOOL-AGED CHILDREN ACROSS AMERICA WHO MIGHT OTHERWISE GO HUNGRY.

  • PROVIDE NUTRIOUS FOOD TO CHILDREN THROUGH SCHOOLS IN THE FORT WAYNE COMMUNITY IN A THIRTY-SIX WEEK PERIOD. WE ARE PROUD OF WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH IN 2025, INCLUDING:- BLESSINGS BAGS PROGRAM WHICH FED 3,750 CHILDREN EVERY FRIDAY WITH SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD BAGS TO ENSURE THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ENDURE THE WEEKENDS WITHOUT FOOD. WE PROVIDE 142,500 DURING THE SCHOOL YEAR THROUGH THE TOP NINE FOOD INSECURE SCHOOLS IN FORT WAYNE COMMUNITY SCHOOLS.- SUMMER FEEDING PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDED 1,200 BLESSING BAGS EVERY FRIDAY DURING THE SUMMER FOR 11,052 CHILDREN THROUGHOUT 8 ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCATIONS. -BELIEVE BAGS WHICH SERVES TO GIVE ADDITIONAL FOOD AND MENTAL HEALTH/SELF-ESTEEM BOOSTERS TO THOSE FIGHTING FOOD INSECURITY DURING THE MOST VUNERABLE TIMES OF THE YEAR. THESE ARE DISTRIBUTED TO SCHOOLS AS WELL AS AGENCIES WITH CHILDREN'S PROGRAMMING. THE ORGANIZATION WAS RECOGNIZED BY GREATER FORT WAYNE IN 2024 IN EXCELLENCE IN NONPROFIT FOR THE TOP 5 NONPROFIT NOMINEES. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WAS ALSO NAMED GREATER FORT WAYNE'S CHAMPTION OF CHANGE IN THE NONPROFIT FIELD. PROGRAMMING HAS GROWN TO ASSIST OVER 160,000 CHILDREN ANNUALLY WHILE REMAINING FINANCIALLY SOLVENT.

    Expenses $581,292 · Grants $508,425

As filed on the 2025 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • RACHEL GUIN

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • RENEE A SLOAN

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NOEL WINTERS

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MICHAEL TRENT

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PAUL O SAUERTEIG

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • GRETCHEN K GOULOFF

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NANCY GUOLOFF-GRABNER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BECKY PAPE

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MONICA SENK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • D GEOFF PADDOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALI BOWERSOCK

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • DENISE ANDORFER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • ALEXANDRA AMADOR

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • TIM CAPTAIN

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SCOTT BUNNELL

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • AUSTIN KNOX

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • PATRICK MALOBLOCKI

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • KATHRYN SCHAU

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MARY MONTES

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BRETT GAUGER

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • JAMA ROSS

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $100,700
    From this org
    $100,700
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $90,000
    Bonus
    $10,000
    Other
    $700
    Deferred
    $0
    Nontaxable benefits
    $0
    Filer's total
    $100,700

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $960,891
    Expenses
    $661,538
    Contributions
    $990,463
    Grants paid
    $508,425
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $560,895
    Expenses
    $441,308
    Contributions
    $485,406
    Grants paid
    $297,816
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $332,172
    Expenses
    $337,224
    Contributions
    $332,078
    Grants paid
    $243,931
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $304,496
    Expenses
    $287,538
    Contributions
    $304,485
    Grants paid
    $213,629

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

  • 2021 · 990

    Revenue
    $227,201
    Expenses
    $253,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $140,088

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $249,619
    Expenses
    $190,285
    Assets (EOY)
    $166,749

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $209,155
    Expenses
    $265,296
    Assets (EOY)
    $107,415

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $206,431
    Expenses
    $248,299
    Assets (EOY)
    $163,556

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $191,146
    Expenses
    $149,349
    Assets (EOY)
    $205,424

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 13 October 2026 and read 23 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.