United for Baby
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 873012050
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2024–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025, Form 990-N 2023
- Location
- Elgin, SC, USA
- Phone
- 8033314686
- Rating
- 96
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Human Service Organizations
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $66,829
- Expenses
- $66,829
- Assets
- $21,881
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Shameka Huff (Executive Director)
- Sharri Adams-Edwards (Board of Directors - President)
- Chiquitta P Rouse (Board of Directors - Vice President)
People named in this filing
- Aja Adams (Grants and Program Administration)
- Shameka Huff (Executive Director)
- Sharri Adams-Edwards (Board of Directors - President)
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
United for Baby is a nonprofit organization committed to ending diaper need and eliminating barriers for families with infants and young children in underserved and rural communities. We provide essential items such as diapers wipes formula period products and fresh food at no charge while connecting families to community resources and support services.n the prior fiscal year United for Baby fulfilled its mission and upheld its tax-exempt status through the following key program activities: Diaper Distribution Program: Distributed over 175,00 diapers and wipes to families in need across rural South Carolina including Kershaw Richland , Chester York and Lancaster counties at no cost. This essential support helped families reduce financial strain and improve infant health outcomes. Uniting Hearts Program: Provided postpartum moms and their newborns with monthly fresh produce newborn essentials breastfeeding support to promote maternal and infant wellness.
What it reported doing in 2025
In 2025 United for Baby expanded its Emergency Diaper Relief program to support families impacted by Hurricane Helene across South Carolina North Carolina and surrounding rural communities. Through partnerships with churches community organizations volunteers and local agencies the organization distributed diapers wipes formula baby food hygiene items period supplies and other essential care products to families affected by the storm. United for Baby coordinated emergency supply drives rapid-response distributions and transportation of relief items to impacted communities helping ensure infants children and vulnerable families had access to critical basic needs during recovery efforts. The organization also collaborated with local diaper pantries and community partners to extend services into hard-to-reach rural areas. These efforts strengthened United for Babys disaster response capacity and reinforced its mission to provide health dignity and stability to families during emergencies and times of crisis.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 98% 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
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 98
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 34
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 97.8%; rating input score 98
- Program expense ratio: 97.8%; rating input score 98
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 0%; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.33; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 119% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 73.7% per year; rating input score 100; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 0% per year; rating input score 100; 38th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 97.8% of revenue deployed · 97.8% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 3 filed program accomplishments · $65K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 2 filing years from 2024 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- Related organizations: Filed and resolved organization relationships.
- 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 — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 43/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 24/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.