MAMA Project
Legal name: Mama Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 232993647
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2019–2024
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Pennsburg, PA, USA
- Phone
- (215) 679-4338
- Rating
- 84
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Protestant
- Affiliation
- Christianity
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,531,927
- Expenses
- $1,613,867
- Assets
- $165,504
- Liabilities
- $147,640
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
4 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DR PRISCILLA BENNER (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT)
- RUTH COLE (VICE PRESIDENT/BOARD MEMBE)
Highest reported compensation
- DR PRISCILLA BENNER (PRESIDENT/EXECUTIVE DIRECT): $34,000 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
& Vision MAMA Project’s mission is to be a network to promote health and wholeness working through partnerships on many levels, both national and international. Involving many sectors of society, both public and private, joining forces to deal with problems that rob children of their chance to experience abundant life. MAMA Project’s vision is to build a _wall of protection_ around children born into adverse environments to allow not just survival but also development to their full potential.
What it reported doing in 2024
Mama kenya - nairobi, kenyaassessment and treatment of malnourished children in kibera and mukuru slums. We undertake community development and empowerment through nutritional and health education for mothers. The kenya team has a clean water project for filtration, which now exists in 9 schools and benefits 20,000 to 25,000 children. Additionally, 4,000 new families received water filtration which equates to approximately 40,000 individuals. The program also provided 2,400 girls with sanitary kits.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Grant intermediary. The nonprofit sent 97% of its reported program spending out as grants.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and expenses are high relative to revenue.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 95
- Transparency & Controls: 77
- Accountability: 85
- Sustainability: 20
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 98.4%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 93.4%; rating input score 93
- Fundraising efficiency: $101.58 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 87; 87th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: 1 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 12
- Claims monitoring procedures: Pass
- Requires narrative reports: Fail
- Conducts field audits: Fail
- May suspend future funding: Fail
- Requires financial reports: Fail
- Conducts site visits: Fail
- Requires grant agreements: Fail
- May require repayment: Fail
- Grant itemization coverage: 99.8%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
- 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -5.3%; rating input score 23; 23rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.1; rating input score 5; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.89; rating input score 7; 7th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 48.2% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 41.9% per year; rating input score 100; 95th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 20% per year; rating input score 100; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: Mission, programs, and operating context captured from the official website.
- Where the money goes: 98.4% of revenue deployed · 93.4% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 3 of 4 board members independent · 8 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.5M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $34K · 4 people listed
- Consistency: 29 of 29 current checks pass
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- 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 — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight: 7 of 8 not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 23/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 5/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 7/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 58/100.