Birth It Forward
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 844838426
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Kansas City, MO, USA
- Phone
- 8163204800
- Rating
- 77
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $68,984
- Expenses
- $68,023
- Assets
- $29,701
- Liabilities
- $4,066
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Kristen Mason (Executive Director)
- Cassie Moul (President)
People named in this filing
- Kristen Mason (Executive Director)
- Jaime Mackey (Associate Director)
- Cynthia Rogan (Associate Director)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
To provide evidence-based support, education and advocacy to birth workers, families and the community through the pregnancy, birth and the postpartum periods
What it reported doing in 2024
Mother's Closet Program. This program aims to serve families during the prenatal and early postpartum period through the distributions of physical goods including women's, infants, and childrens' clothing as well as other items regularly utilized for infants and young children. In 2024 this program served 198 unique families. In 2024 Mother's Closet distributes 186 packages of diapers, 79 large items, and 1,116 bags of smaller items.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Program spending has declined or grown slowly and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 33
- Growth: 40
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.8%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 67.7%; rating input score 68
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 1.4%; rating input score 48; 48th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.44; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.14; rating input score 16; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 31.9%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -5.9% per year; rating input score 0; 34th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 1.3% per year; rating input score 100; 57th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: -26.2% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.8% of revenue deployed · 67.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $46K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2023 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 5 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 48/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 27/100.
- High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 16/100.