Mother to Mother Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 201028812
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2017–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Nashville, TN, USA
- Phone
- 6154035269
- Rating
- 85
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $8,076,040
- Expenses
- $5,377,521
- Assets
- $7,595,228
- Liabilities
- $3,160,066
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
16 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- ROSEMARY VERHULST (PRESIDENT)
Highest reported compensation
- DENISE ANDERSON (DIRECTOR OF): $146,154 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mother to mother is a non-profit that provides vital health, safety, and wellness items for infants and children in need by working with a special network of social workers, nurses, social service agencies, and local hospitals. We distribute diapers, car seats, clothes, cribs, strollers, and other essential baby items to low-income children from newborns to age 10.
What it reported doing in 2024
For almost two decades, nashville-based mother to mother has been working to ensure impoverished children in our community have access to three basic essentials that often slip through the cracks of government subsidies and charitable support: - diapers - car seats - a safe place to sleep mother to mother is a non-profit organization founded in 2004 with the sole mission of connecting those in a position to help financially with the case workers and healthcare professionals who see firsthand the enormous needs of struggling mothers and children. When mothers become strapped and distressed, they often dont have access to the basic items necessary to care for a child. Getting resources in place quickly and efficiently is crucial. By working with our agency partners such as hospitals, domestic violence centers, homeless shelters and many others, we are able to reach those in the community that are most in need. Since our inception, we have distributed millions of diapers, car seats, clothes, cribs, strollers, products, gear, and other essential baby items to low-income children from newborn to age 10.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- 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: 80
- Transparency & Controls: 85
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 66
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.2%; rating input score 66
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Fundraising efficiency: $213.97 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 92; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.8%; rating input score 94; 20th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 6 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 86
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 33.4%; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.41; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.42; rating input score 26; 26th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 2.7%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22% per year; rating input score 100; 87th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 26.1% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 41.6% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.2% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $5.3M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $146K · 16 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $224K reported
- Consistency: 30 of 30 current checks pass
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2017 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 2 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.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Form 990 shared with the board not reported.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 49/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 26/100.