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BACKPACK BRIGADE

EIN 47-4086877 SEATTLE, WA

Revenue 2025
$2,627,905
Expenses 2025
$1,588,382

Program services were 80.5% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
K30
Classification
1000
Street
4111 E MADISON STREET 21

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).

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.

  • MARIELA TORRES

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARY ELLEN OSTHUS

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • NICK STONER

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • DRE GOHIKE

    SECRETARY

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • MARCY MCADAMS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • COLLEEN DONOVON

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • SARAH NINIVAGGI

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • BEN BISHOP

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • MATT CAMRUD

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LORETTA DOUGLAS

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • LAUREN SCHITLZ

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • NICHELLE HILTON

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $96,875
    From this org
    $96,875
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $2,627,905
    Expenses
    $1,588,382
    Contributions
    $2,624,243
    Grants paid
    $935,248
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,696,646
    Expenses
    $1,402,514
    Contributions
    $1,785,615
    Grants paid
    $896,352
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,131,320
    Expenses
    $1,218,493
    Contributions
    $1,150,637
    Grants paid
    $831,741
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $995,984
    Expenses
    $944,934
    Contributions
    $1,001,844
    Grants paid
    $639,704

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.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2016

Tax period
1 January 2016 to 31 December 2016
Principal officer
Nichelle Hilton
Mailing address
4111 e madison stseattle WA 98112
Website
backpackbrigade.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 12 October 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

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 10 September 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 IRS Business Master File ingested 5 October 2026, which is when the registration facts above were last refreshed for every organization. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.