Diaper Bank of Minnesota
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 300631448
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2023, Form 990-N 2015
- Location
- Saint Paul, MN, USA
- Phone
- 6515053597
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Emergency Assistance
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,201,012
- Expenses
- $892,224
- Assets
- $567,303
- Liabilities
- $65,190
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
9 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEIRDRE KANZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
Highest reported compensation
- DEIRDRE KANZER (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR): $56,213 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Provide diapers to low income families in need.
What it reported doing in 2025
One-in-two (47%) families cannot afford enough diapers to keep their infants and toddlers clean, dry, and healthy. That means that over 125,000 Minnesota children ages 0-3 experience diaper need. The diaper bank of Minnesota partners with 35 agencies across the state to provide diapers to as many of these children as we can.in 2025, we distributed 3.2 million diapers to nearly 45,000 children in 74 Minnesota counties. Ninety-four percent (94%) of the families served had incomes below 200% of the federal poverty line. Examples of our impact (as described by our partners) include: improved health outcomes for babies; reductions in parental stress and anxiety; the ability to redirect limited resources toward other essentials, such as housing, utilities, and food; and increased access to childcare, making it possible for parents to work.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Mixed. Its operating money came from several sources; no one source provided a clear majority.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 89% of its reported program spending out as grants.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 78
- Transparency & Controls: 87
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 68.8%; rating input score 69
- Program expense ratio: 92.6%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $49.05 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 25th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 88.4%; rating input score 88; 41st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 88
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: Pass
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Fail
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 25.7%; rating input score 78; 78th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.64; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.11; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 47; 47th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.9% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 51.7% per year; rating input score 100; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 36.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 68.8% of revenue deployed · 92.6% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $827K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $56K · 9 people listed
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 37 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 35 filed related-organization links
- 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Audit committee oversight not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 30/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 33/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 47/100.