North Carolina · Nonprofit
DIAPER TRAIN
DIAPER TRAIN (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,216 to it, the largest being W TRENT RAGLAND JR FOUNDATION ($40,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $561k
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- $256k
- Net assets
- $275k
What Diaper Train does
Mission
Our mission is to provide diapers, equipping families with a necessary tool to increase their mental and physical health and wellbeing. A diaper can change a life. Diaper Train is committed to a future where every family in wake county has access to this basic need.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Our mission is to ensure that children and families experiencing diaper need have access to diapers, a basic necessity that supports health, well- being, and dignity. In 2025, Diaper Train distributed 1,182,000 diapers to children and families experiencing diaper need in wake county. Through direct distribution and partnerships with more than 100 community organizations, Diaper Train worked to increase access to diapers and other essential baby supplies for families in need.
$575,836 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $575,836.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $441k to $844k (+91%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of DIAPER TRAIN’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 7 of the last 9 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose $10k → $51k.
6 of 31 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 9% 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 DIAPER TRAIN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 29 of 31 funders by total. 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
DIAPER TRAIN has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 34% · 2019 59% · 2020 29% · 2021 48% · 2022 75% · 2023 24% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of DIAPER TRAIN's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
83% of DIAPER TRAIN's grant income comes from North Carolina funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
DIAPER TRAIN's funding base is broadening — from 7 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,917 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like DIAPER TRAIN
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 Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
97%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for DIAPER TRAIN: 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 DIAPER TRAIN?
- DIAPER TRAIN (North Carolina) receives grants from 31 organizations whose IRS filings report $256,216 to it, the largest being W TRENT RAGLAND JR FOUNDATION ($40,000). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DIAPER TRAIN have?
- IRS filings report 31 organizations giving $256,216 in grants to DIAPER TRAIN, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DIAPER TRAIN?
- W TRENT RAGLAND JR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DIAPER TRAIN find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 2017–2025), and the filings of 31 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