Mothers Without Borders
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 841550819
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2012–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024
- Location
- Provo, UT, USA
- Phone
- 8016075641
- Rating
- 75
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- AIDS
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,847,590
- Expenses
- $1,581,122
- Assets
- $2,328,386
- Liabilities
- $17,169
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Jackie Skinner (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- Jackie Skinner (CEO): $157,125 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our work is rooted in our commitment to nurture human potential, ensuring that every initiative is not just a temporary fix but a step towards lasting change.We envision a day where each community is equipped and empowered to develop sustainable solutions to the problems that place their children in crisis. This vision is brought to life through engaging with communities to spearhead initiatives that are conceived, developed, and sustained by the very people they aim to benefit. By amplifying local voices and knowledge, we construct programs that are culturally appropriate and contextually relevant and always focused on empowering individuals to lead self-sufficient lives.
What it reported doing in 2024
Empowering Youth & Women: At Mothers Without Borders, we believe that empowering youth and women is essential to building strong, resilient communities. Our work is rooted in the understanding that when women and young people have the tools, skills, and support to thrive, they can overcome barriers, break cycles of poverty, and transform the future for themselves and those around them.Participation in our Youth Empowerment Programs grew from 526 youth in 2023 to 1,627 in 2024, thanks in part to a strategic partnership with UNICEF, which expanded our reach and capacity. These programs include mentorship, life skills development, leadership training, and support for continued education or vocational training. Graduates of our youth programs may also join our entrepreneurial training and microloan initiative, which helps them start small businesses and achieve financial independence. In 2024, 19 youth empowerment graduates accessed loans.Additionally, our Women's Clubs expanded significantly in 2024, increasing from 6 groups to 24, serving 380 women (up from 174 in 2023). These clubs offer a powerful combination of peer support, entrepreneurial training, and access to microloans, enabling women to start or grow income-generating businesses. In addition to improving household income, the clubs provide a vital network of solidarity and empowerment for women navigating poverty, widowhood, and caregiving.We provided funding that supports part or full time employment to 98 Zambians during 2024 (an increase from 94 Zambian employees in 2023) who run all programming in Zambia, providing income to the families of each employee and ensuring our programs are 100% locally led.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 84% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 93% 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
SUPPORTED - 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 fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 67
- Transparency & Controls: 69
- Accountability: 95
- Sustainability: 61
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 67%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 77.9%; rating input score 78
- Fundraising efficiency: $8.51 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: 3 of 6 controls in place; rating input score 50
- Compensation committee: Missing
- Independent consultant: Missing
- Other Form 990s reviewed: Missing
- Written employment contract: Pass
- Compensation survey or study: Pass
- Board or committee approval: Pass
- 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: 100%; rating input score 100; 76th 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: 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: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 14.4%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.47; rating input score 55; 55th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.01; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 9.9%; rating input score 37; 37th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.8% per year; rating input score 100; 65th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.1% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 14.7% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 67% of revenue deployed · 77.9% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 7 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.2M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $157K · 7 people listed · 3 of 6 pay-setting controls reported
- Consistency: 31 of 32 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 8 filed schedules · includes major donors, foreign activity, and executive pay
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2012 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.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 33/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 55/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.