The Napkin Network
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873701602
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2023–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Bethesda, MD, USA
- Phone
- 4102948011
- Rating
- 43
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Family Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $185,044
- Expenses
- $150,107
- Assets
- $77,640
- Liabilities
- $3,133
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
1 person listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Lindsay Gill (President & CEO)
People named in this filing
- Lindsay Gill (President & CEO)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Created to bridge the gap between Moms in Need and Moms who Care providing essential baby items including diaoers, formula, wipes and creams, and emergency grocery items directly into the hands of Moms in Need.
What it reported doing in 2025
Moms on a Mission Luncheon Sponsors and attendees paid to participate in a luncheon that brought together philanthropists from the Washington, DC area to discuss and learn ways to support mothers in need within our community. The event focused on raising awareness of this critical need and encouraged attendees to contribute through diaper donations and monetary gifts.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and revenue has grown recently. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 8
- Transparency & Controls: 82
- Sustainability: 55
- Growth: 60
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 7.4%; rating input score 7
- Program expense ratio: 9.2%; rating input score 9
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Limited
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 18.9%; rating input score 70; 70th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.52; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 27; 27th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -89.9% per year; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 34.8% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 48.4% per year; rating input score 100; 92nd percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 7.4% of revenue deployed · 9.2% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $14K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 1 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 8 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 7/100.
- High — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 9/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III transfer expenses within program total did not reconcile in the filed values.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 39/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 27/100.