BACKBONE CAMPAIGN

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

P62

Classification

1000

Street

PO BOX 278

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 · 2024

• Solutionary Rail: Education and advocacy for putting US rail in the public interest. We launched the Reconnect America podcast and blog, to present a creative yet common sense vision for U.S. railroads. The podcast and blog weave together the genius of community and technical experts, workers and policymakers, advocates and scholars. Reconnect America reflects a decade of research, writing, and advocacy aimed at illuminating the ways in which te U.S. rail system can be harnessed to better service public interests and to address 21st century problems.

  Expenses $187,763 · Revenue $539

• Artful Activism. Our artful activism work builds and deploys creative props to animate community values. We teach community groups how to use creative tools and we support nonviolent actions that are media- genic and foster meaning and joy while protecting the people, places and beings cherished in a community. One example is the wild salmon and Southern Resident orca of the Salish Sea. Our new inflatable salmon, life-size inflatable orca, and our giant human Orca Mural are activities that amplify our love for the orca and salmon with whom we share this home.

  Expenses $63,147 · Revenue $10,375

• Two small programs supporting eduation and local resistance.

  Expenses $1,028

• Fiscal sponsorship of community support organization.

  Expenses $103,987 · Revenue $7,495

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

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.

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

  $762,462

  Expenses

  $424,572

  Contributions

  $733,582

  Grants paid

  $2,809

• 2023

  Revenue

  $411,808

  Expenses

  $380,065

  Contributions

  $384,162

  Grants paid

  $353

• 2022

  Revenue

  $306,121

  Expenses

  $300,795

  Contributions

  $203,856

  Grants paid

  $111

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

  $457,893

  Expenses

  $290,124

  Assets (EOY)

  $418,596

• 2020 · 990

  Revenue

  $369,795

  Expenses

  $266,667

  Assets (EOY)

  $196,991

• 2019 · 990

  Revenue

  $283,749

  Expenses

  $312,162

  Assets (EOY)

  $111,901

• 2018 · 990

  Revenue

  $366,305

  Expenses

  $373,115

  Assets (EOY)

  $121,890

• 2017 · 990

  Revenue

  $645,253

  Expenses

  $578,878

  Assets (EOY)

  $129,658

• 2016 · 990

  Revenue

  $415,591

  Expenses

  $453,474

  Assets (EOY)

  $61,527

• 2015 · 990

  Revenue

  $485,108

  Expenses

  $483,383

  Assets (EOY)

  $100,838

• 2014 · 990

  Revenue

  $390,944

  Expenses

  $381,258

  Assets (EOY)

  $96,154

• 2013 · 990

  Revenue

  $206,458

  Expenses

  $205,849

  Assets (EOY)

  $86,397

• 2012 · 990

  Revenue

  — not reported

  Expenses

  $212,952

  Assets (EOY)

  $84,386

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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 US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK

  $60,000

  2023 · Visionary Grant

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $26,000

  2022 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS INC

  $21,646

  2022 · COLLABORATION GRANT

• ARTSFUND

  $17,500

  2023 · GENERAL SUPPORT

• VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM

  $13,500

  2023 · FOR RECIPIENT'S EXEMPT PURPOSE

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $11,836

  2024 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

• INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE INC

  $10,000

  2022

• OREGON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

  $7,000

  2023 · Civil Rights

• FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

  $5,870

  2023 · For grant recipient's exempt purposes

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