Saving Mothers
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 263905821
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-EZ 2015, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- New York, NY, USA
- Phone
- 9172254897
- Rating
- 72
- Verdict
- SUPPORTED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $442,098
- Expenses
- $373,687
- Assets
- $152,861
- Liabilities
- $5,131
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- LISA GILLIGAN (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)
People named in this filing
- JACQUES MORITZ (BOARD CHAIR)
- MARGARET DAVINO (TREASURER)
- TENEISHA OLIVIERRE (SECRETARY)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
An organization dedicated to eradicating preventable maternal deaths and birth-related complications in developing countries. We do this by: (1) educating birth attendants and other healthcare providers in underserved communities (2) performing pro bono surgeries to address birth-related complications such as fistula and incontinence, and (3) pioneering low-cost, low-tech interventions such as our safe birth kits and post-partum hemorrhage kits.
What it reported doing in 2024
The organization seeks to accomplish its mission by: 1) educating birth attendants and other health providers in underserved communities; 2) performing pro bono surgeries to address birth-related complications such as fistula and incontinence; and 3) pioneering low-cost, low-tech interventions such as our safe birth kits and post-partum hemorrhage kits.
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.
The verdict
SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and most voting board members are independent. The filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad and the filing does not identify recipients for some grant dollars.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 76
- Transparency & Controls: 51
- Accountability: 94
- Sustainability: 51
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 72.5%; rating input score 73
- Program expense ratio: 85.8%; rating input score 86
- Fundraising efficiency: $20.59 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: No; rating input score 0
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: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 15.5%; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.41; rating input score 21; 21st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.03; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 69; 69th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 9% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 11.6% per year; rating input score 100; 76th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.6% per year; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 72.5% of revenue deployed · 85.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 6 of 6 board members independent · 6 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $321K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 22 of 23 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 9 filing years from 2016 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- 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 scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 58/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Related-party transparency scored 0/100.
- Review — Accountability: Governance controls: Independent financial-statement audit not reported.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 21/100.
- Review — Transparency & Controls: Schedule R controlled transactions itemized did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 36/100.