My Very Own Blanket Project Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 900198206
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2018–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025, Form 990-EZ 2016, Form 990-N 2018
- Location
- Westerville, OH, USA
- Phone
- 6145303327
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Children's, Youth Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $2,056,519
- Expenses
- $2,015,746
- Assets
- $551,391
- Liabilities
- $1,131
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- JESSICA RUDOLPH (CEO)
Highest reported compensation
- JESSICA RUDOLPH (CEO): $81,200 total reported compensation
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
My very own blanket is dedicated to warming the heart of every child in the foster care system with a blanket which gives them feelings of comfort, security, and most of all, a smile.we connect diverse people, community groups, businesses and services through this volunteer opportunity and ministry to our children in foster care. These gifts are comforting and familiar and children can take them from one home to another.through the loving care of volunteers, thousands of blankets are donated each year to children in foster care. Each blanket is personalized with the child's name, a tradition for "my very own blanket" since 1999.
What it reported doing in 2025
We connect diverse people, community groups, businesses and services through this volunteer opportunity and ministry to our children in foster care. These gifts are comforting and familiar and children can take them from one home to another. Through the loving care of volunteers, thousands of blankets are donated each year to children in foster care. Each blanket is personalized with the child's name.we have hundreds of blanket angels, working alone or with a group, who make blankets occasionally, or just once. We also have blanket angels from accross the country who have made an ongoing, multi-year commitment to providing blankets. We value every blanket angel and every blanket.during the year, our blankets reached children in foster care from throughout the united states through our non-profit partners, as well as a growing number of public and private foster care agencies across the u.s.
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
SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up and a large share of available resources goes toward mission work. Some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered and fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 61
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 68
- Sustainability: 35
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 66.9%; rating input score 67
- Program expense ratio: 68.2%; rating input score 68
- Fundraising efficiency: $4.73 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 14; 14th 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: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 90%; rating input score 90; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 38
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Fail
- CEO compensation review process: Fail
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 2%; rating input score 33; 33rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.27; rating input score 8; 8th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 86; 86th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 4%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 10.2% per year; rating input score 100; 61st percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 17.6% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 25.8% per year; rating input score 100; 90th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 66.9% of revenue deployed · 68.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 9 of 10 board members independent · 3 of 8 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $1.4M in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $81K · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 27 of 27 current checks pass
- Schedules: 4 filed schedules
- Filing history: 8 filing years from 2018 to 2025
- 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.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 4 of 7 not reported.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 14/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 33/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 8/100.