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Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc

We center Black mamas to advocate, drive research, build power, and shift culture for Black maternal health, rights, and Justice.

$106k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Upstream Works Collaborative$10,000
Iowa Black Doula Collective$10,000
Oshun Family Center$10,000
Birthmark Doula Collective$10,000
Roots Community Birth Center$10,000
F & L Organizational Support Servic$10,000
Village Birth International$10,000
Black Down Syndrome Association$10,000
Birthing Beautiful Communities$10,000
SisterSong$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Repra Health$5,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SisterSong: $8k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
OH
PA
VA
MD
NC
LA
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective

Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective is a free and charitable clinic and social safety net. Ubuntu Black Family Wellness Collective serves Black pregnant and parenting mamas, their babies and children through community-based, holistic…

Health
2
Mama Bird Doula Services

To improve the outcomes for Black Indigenous and People of Color, BIPOC, maternal health and their babies in our community.

Health
3
Your Birth Partners

To cultivate inclusive, collaborative birthcare communities rooted in autonomy, respect, & equity.

Health
4
Black Doula Project Inc

To provide free doula services to women of color and to provide doula trainings to other Black women to help build their own business.

Health
5
Birthing Circle Inc

Provide education, support and access to resources to expectant and new families in the community along with birth support, postpartum care and access to mental health and support groups. All income and demographics are served.

Community Improvement
6
Sankofa Birthworkers Collective of the Inland Empire

PURPOSE We are a Collective of Black Birthworkers, reclaiming our ri ghts to birth through community, cause and connection.

Human Services
7
The Mama Glow Foundation

The Foundation strives to improve maternal health outcomes in three primary ways. They are: Providing scholarships to aspiring doulas and midwives, Engaging in professional development pathways for our doulas, and Working with educational…

Human Services
8
Maternal Coalition

The Maternal Coalition (TMC) mission is to ensure all pregnant and parenting people have access to just and equitable healthcare

Health
9
Delivering Unto You

We offer a safe empowering pregnancy and birth environment by providing midwifery care education and support for Black families and other families of color in Travis County and surrounding areas Our organization was created to help black…

Health
10
Imanis Village Inc

Imani's village inc is a not for profit organization comitted to enhancing birth outcomes for mothers and babies in the black community in response to the alarming rates of infant and maternal mortality withing black communities. we aim to…

Health
11
Melanin and Motherhood Maternal Wellness

Charitable and Educational

Health
12
Baby Blues Connection

The Mission of Baby Blues Connection is to provide mental health support and build community with parents and birthing people coping with perinatal mood and anxiety disorders through connection, information and resources.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birthing Beautiful Communities; the most unlike its peers is F&L Organizational Support Services. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OSHUN FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 · HealthOSHUN FAMILY CENTERIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE: $10,000 · HealthIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVEVillage Birth International: $10,000 · HealthVillage Birth InternationalBlack Down Syndrome Association: $10,000 · HealthBlack Down Syndrome AssociationBirthmark Doula: $10,000 · OtherBirthmark DoulaROOTS MIDWIFERY LLC: $10,000 · OtherROOTS MIDWIFERY LLCIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRepra Health: $5,000 · OtherRepra HealthUpstream Works: $10,000 · Community ImprovementUpstream WorksF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT SERVICES: $10,000 · Community ImprovementF&L ORGANIZATIONAL SU…BIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $10,000 · EducationBIRTHING B…SISTERSONG INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Health$40,000Other$30,000Community Improvement$20,000Education$10,000Human Services$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOSHUN FAMILY CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBIRTHING BEAUTIFUL COMMUNITIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIOWA BLACK DOULA COLLECTIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUpstream Works: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetVillage Birth International: $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetSISTERSONG INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Black Mamas Matter Alliance Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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