Greater Dc Diaper Bank
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 274276547
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2015–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2010
- Location
- Washington, DC, USA
- Phone
- 2027024001
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $4,574,554
- Expenses
- $4,709,597
- Assets
- $3,773,074
- Liabilities
- $724,146
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
17 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ELIZABETH SCHURGIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (APRIL - DEC))
Highest reported compensation
- ELIZABETH SCHURGIN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR (APRIL - DEC)): $137,254 total reported compensation
- JACQUELYN LENDSEY (INTERIM EXEC DIR (JAN - APRIL)): $60,375 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Greater dc diaper bank (gdcdb) strengthens families and engages communities by providing diapers and other essentials to vulnerable families in dc, Maryland, and Virginia. As the only diaper bank in the region, gdcdb aims to be a steward of essential resources and provide as much value through their distribution as possible. We know that diapers are only the beginning of what our struggling families need they need comprehensive social services that address a range of issues from food and medical care to early childhood education and housing. To increase access to poverty interventions, we distribute our products through one-stop shop social service agencies. Most partners use gdcdb diapers as a "gateway resource" to incentivize participation in long-term anti-poverty programs like parenting classes or mental health support groups.
What it reported doing in 2024
Diaper supplies and distribution
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 75% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 73% 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 expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 85
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 82
- Sustainability: 32
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 87.5%; rating input score 87
- Program expense ratio: 84.9%; rating input score 85
- Fundraising efficiency: $53.21 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 79; 79th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 94.1%; rating input score 94; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.3%; rating input score 99; 38th 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; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: Fail
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -3%; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 30; 30th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.19; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4.2%; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 20.6% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.8% per year; rating input score 100; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.9% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 87.5% of revenue deployed · 84.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 15 of 15 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $137K · 17 people listed
- Consistency: 34 of 35 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and grants
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2015 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 61 filed money-flow records
- Related organizations: 53 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.
- Staff and benefit plans: Retirement and health plans the organization files with the Department of Labor, and the people in them.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 9 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 24/100.
- 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 45/100.