Kentucky · Nonprofit
BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC
BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,850 to it, the largest being Groundswell Fund ($196,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.2M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $348k
- Net assets
- $387k
What Black Birth Justice Inc does
Mission
Advocating for maternal health rights and providing superior support for postpartum persons. Our vision is to combat the Maternal and Infant mortality rate . Our focus is to protect the birthing people of the Black community with integrity, compassion and boldness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HBCU- Healthy Beginnings Connect US 1 - Connection to preventative health services, behavioral health care, doula, and midwife care 2 - Cohort model health education across the preconception, prenatal, and postpartum spectrum for birthing persons, and parents and caregivers to infants 0-18 months. 3 - Referrals to Child Development, Housing, Employment, Finance, Education, and Justice resources 4 - Support for essential items, such as diapers, wipes, car seats, strollers, and breast pumps for participants through the BBJ Hub Store 5 - Healthcare advocacy and systems change through community partnerships.
$884,523 spent100% of program spendingTiny Toes, Big Planet A program that aims to create sustainable postpartum families in marginalized communities in Louisville, KY. At Black Birth Justice,, we envision a community where every Black and Brown family receives the support and resources they need to thrive during the postpartum period and beyond. Led by Black women, we are dedicated to fostering transformative support systems that uplift and empower families through every stage of their journey. The 30 families that attended these events gained a wealth of knowledge and went home with tools to make environmentally conscious choices. These resources simultaneously help alleviate the financial hardships of new parenthood.
Postpartum Doula Training Our postpartum doula trainings are free and allow women to gain ancestral knowledge of traditional birth keepers. Postpartum doula trainings occur when we receive funding to do so. Creating access to trainings for black women is so important to us. At this time we do not have out of pocket trainings, but will revisit the idea in the future. Please follow us on social media for trainings. Some photos are of full spectrum trainings that we lead with our sister organization Mama 2 Mama. ALL PROGRAMMING COSTS
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $884,523.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $113k to $387k (+243%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Meka Kpoh
Executive director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose $15k → $56k.
1 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 90%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
96% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 89% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC draws 90% of its grant income from funders outside Kentucky, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3.2M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$3.2M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Kentucky
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC?
- BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC (Kentucky) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $347,850 to it, the largest being Groundswell Fund ($196,500). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $347,850 in grants to BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC?
- Groundswell Fund is the largest funder on record, with $196,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BLACK BIRTH JUSTICE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Kentucky. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2021–2025), and the filings of 7 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing