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BACKPACKS FOR LIFE INC

EIN 47-1281873 JERSEY CITY, NJ

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Revenue 2024
$349,191
Expenses 2024
$353,631

Program services were 90.1% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
T19
Classification
1000
Street
201 MONTGOMERY ST APT 263

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).

Other organizations at this address

2 other organizations in the IRS Business Master File list the same street address. matched by us

We match the street line and ZIP code as the IRS gives them, ignoring case and outer spaces and nothing else, so "AVE" and "AVENUE" count as different streets and this list can miss some. A shared address can mean related organizations or a shared office, but it can also be a registered agent, a mail drop or a service provider holding mail for unrelated clients. It is not, by itself, evidence that two organizations are connected.

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

THE PRIMARY EXEMPT PURPOSE OF THE ORGANIZATION IS TO HELP HOMELESS AND DISADVANTAGED VETERANS BY PROVIDING THEM WITH DAILY LIFE ESSENTIALS AS WELL AS COMMUNICATE TO THEM ABOUT THE VARIOUS PROGRAMS AND AGENCIES THAT ARE IN PLACE TO HELP THEM ADAPT AND SUCCEED AS THEY TRANSITION TO LIFE AFTER SERVICE.

  • Backpacks program: The Organization distributes backpacks containing the daily essentials at various events held throughout the year. Backpacks and the supplies that are delivered in them are mainly acquired through donation and purchase. The Organization has also developed a proprietary backpack that they will distribute as part of this program.

    Expenses $194,529

  • Coaching & Mentoring: The Organization has developed an online resource portal, ROGER, where veterans and their families can search for resources in their area. As part of this program, The Organization gets directly involved with some of the most at risk veterans. Services to these veterans includes counseling on where and how to find the help they may need in a quick and efficient manner. Critical assistance may also be provided for housing, transportation, and food. Special projects may also be catagorized to this program.

    Expenses $124,006

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Alexa D'Alessandro

    Exec. Director

    Total calculated
    $40,000
    From this org
    $40,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    35

  • Brett D'Alessandro

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

  • James Piazza

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $349,191
    Expenses
    $353,631
    Contributions
    $296,825
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $325,304
    Expenses
    $341,886
    Contributions
    $292,760
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $332,260
    Expenses
    $296,611
    Contributions
    $313,116
    Grants paid
    $0

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
    $605,363
    Expenses
    $446,098
    Assets (EOY)
    $384,826

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $640,585
    Expenses
    $606,726
    Assets (EOY)
    $412,617

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $251,529
    Expenses
    $248,382
    Assets (EOY)
    $189,848

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $273,661
    Expenses
    $298,327
    Assets (EOY)
    $186,098

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $392,525
    Expenses
    $307,875
    Assets (EOY)
    $212,082

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $189,217
    Expenses
    $88,451
    Assets (EOY)
    $124,992

  • 2015 · 990-EZ

    Revenue
    $34,917
    Expenses
    $12,902
    Assets (EOY)
    $24,225

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2014

Tax period
1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014
Principal officer
Brett D'Alessandro
Mailing address
55 SUNSET AVENUEVERONA NJ 07044
Website
WWW.BACKPACKSFORLIFE.ORG

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

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

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 11 November 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 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.