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MY BAG MY STORY

EIN 83-2750160 BRENTWOOD, TN

Revenue 2025
$171,363
Expenses 2025
$236,355

Program services were 35.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
P32
Classification
1000
Street
1704 PINETREE LN

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.

  • Cara Finger

    Executive Dir.

    Total calculated
    $60,000
    From this org
    $60,000
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40
  • David Whitfield

    Chairman

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Chad Powers

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Amber Alverson

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Susan O'Connell

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sara Olson

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

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
    $171,363
    Expenses
    $236,355
    Contributions
    $154,669
    Grants paid
    $47,639
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $239,229
    Expenses
    $189,333
    Contributions
    $228,941
    Grants paid
    $61,876
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $263,145
    Expenses
    $83,632
    Contributions
    $251,252
    Grants paid
    $27,950
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $126,429
    Expenses
    $47,815
    Contributions
    $116,376
    Grants paid
    not reported

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 2020

Tax period
1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020
Principal officer
Cara Finger
Mailing address
1704 Pine Tree LNBrentwood TN 37027

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

  • 2024 operating fund and general assistance.

  • 2023 TO PROVIDE NEW, HIGH-QUALITY DUFFLE BAGS TO 2000 FOSTER CHILDREN CURRENTLY BEING PROVIDED WITH TRASH BAGS TO CARRY THEIR BELONGINGS.

  • 2024 CHARITABLE

  • 2022 FOSTER CHILDREN ARE ONE OF THE MOST VULNERABLE POPULATIONS IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND OFTEN THEY GROW UP WITH LITTLE DIGNITY AND LOW SELF-ESTEEM, LEADING TO DIRE SITUATIONS SUCH AS HIGHER DROP-OUT RATES, MORE LEARNING DISABILITIES, AND MORE SCHOOL EXPULSIONS. WHEN CARA FINGER'S FIRST FOSTER CHILDREN ARRIVED CARRYING THEIR FEW BELONGINGS IN TRASH BAGS AND WAS TOLD THIS WAS NORMALSHE FOUNDED MY BAG MY STORY TO PROVIDE FOSTER CHILDREN WITH THEIR OWN DURABLE, HIGH-QUALITY BAG TO STORE AND CARRY THEIR BELONGINGS AS THEY ENTERED STATE CUSTODY OR CHANGED PLACEMENTS. A $10,000 GIFT WILL HELP REACH OUR GOAL OF 1,000 BAGS.

  • 2022 TO PROVIDE 350 BAGS TO CHILDREN IN FOSTER CARE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO CARRY THEIR BELONGINGS IN TRASH BAGS

  • 2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

  • 2025 operating fund and general assistance.

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.