North Dakota · Nonprofit
DEAR NICU MAMA
DEAR NICU MAMA (North Dakota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,992 to it, the largest being Dakota Medical Foundation ($30,235). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $141k
- Funders on record
- 9
- Grants received
- $66k
- Net assets
- $46k
What Dear Nicu Mama does
Mission
Designed to connect to nicu mothers
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Right on time book:a beautifully crafted childrens book that celebratesand honors the unique milestones of nicu families and their babies
$57,539 spentof which $10,000 as grants81% of program spendingWalking letter of hope day:an annual awareness campaign inviting nicu families and supportersaccross the country to walk in honor of nicu journeys and share messages of hope.
$7,196 spent10% of program spendingHospital outreach:provide tangible support, encouragement, and resources directlyto nicu families in hospitals nationwide.
$6,725 spent9% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $71,460.
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 2023 to 2024, from $9k to $43k (+407%).
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.
72% of DEAR NICU MAMA’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Board chair
Kristi Krebs
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $31 → $16k.
2 of 9 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% 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 DEAR NICU MAMA’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
DEAR NICU MAMA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 85%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
56% 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 DEAR NICU MAMA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 66% — 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
68% of DEAR NICU MAMA's grant income comes from North Dakota funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
DEAR NICU MAMA has grown faster than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DEAR NICU MAMA
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 North Dakota
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DEAR NICU MAMA: 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 DEAR NICU MAMA?
- DEAR NICU MAMA (North Dakota) receives grants from 9 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,992 to it, the largest being Dakota Medical Foundation ($30,235). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DEAR NICU MAMA have?
- IRS filings report 9 organizations giving $65,992 in grants to DEAR NICU MAMA, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DEAR NICU MAMA?
- Dakota Medical Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $30,235 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DEAR NICU MAMA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Dakota. 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 9 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing