California · Nonprofit
HELP A MOTHER OUT
HELP A MOTHER OUT (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,488,290 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($815,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 43
- Grants received
- $3.5M
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Help a Mother Out does
Mission
Help a Mother Out works to improve baby and family well being by increasing access to diapers for families in need.We distribute diapers to families in need through a network of social service partners including voluntary home visiting programs, facilitated parent support groups, family resource centers, and public health departments. We also advocate for the inclusion of diapers in the social safety net.Our vision is a day when every baby has a healthy supply of diapers.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
BAY AREA DIAPER BANKEstablished in 2009, Help a Mother Out's Bay Area Diaper Bank for community partners in the greater Bay Area region provides social workers with an innovative and vital way to meet the concrete needs of children, build trust with families, and offer additional support and services. Diapers are distributed to families in need exclusively through a network of community partners, including family resource centers, voluntary home visiting, facilitated parent support groups, homeless and foster children services, and public health departments.
$1,913,291 spentof which $184,978 as grants$61,774 earned by the program100% of program spendingSAN FRANCISCO DIAPER BANKEstablished in 2015, Help a Mother Outs San Francisco Diaper Bank (SFDB) is the nation's first and only diaper public assistance program. We established the program in 2015 and operate it through a partnership with San Francisco Human Services Agency. Families eligible for CalWORKS, CalFresh, and Medi-Cal may receive up to 2 cases (full months supply) of diapers each month, for each eligible child ages 0-24 months.
ELO BABY DIAPERSWe distribute our own private label diaper brand (est. 2019), ELO Baby. Our high-quality diapers are manufactured in a North American ISO certified state of the art facility, alongside numerous popular U.S. diaper brands. In addition to our suppliers rigorous internal quality controls, we use independent laboratory testing for extra peace of mind.
CALIFORNIA DIAPER BANKHelp a Mother Outs California Diaper Bank provides one-time diaper grants for disaster relief as well as diapers for organizations that do not have a diaper bank in their area. This program allows us to make discretionary donations outside of our normal service area, when resources are available.
In FY25 (July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025) Help a Mother Out distributed 7.6 million diapers ($2.9 million retail value) diapers, and 2.4 million baby wipes ($71k retail value) to approximately 40,000 children. This was done through a network of 55 partner agencies participating in our three main programs. These programs are described in more detail below.
The 5 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,913,291.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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 $1.5M to $2.2M (+51%).
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 55% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 71% · 2024 50% · 2025 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of HELP A MOTHER OUT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 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.
Board chair
Ashley Martin-Golis
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 15 funders, grant income fell $348k → $244k.
13 of 43 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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 HELP A MOTHER OUT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 43 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
HELP A MOTHER OUT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 23% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
61% 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 HELP A MOTHER OUT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 70% · 2020 24% · 2021 41% · 2022 24% · 2023 26% — 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
53% of HELP A MOTHER OUT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
74% of HELP A MOTHER OUT's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $994k arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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
HELP A MOTHER OUT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 7,349 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,349 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like HELP A MOTHER OUT
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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
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 HELP A MOTHER OUT: 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 HELP A MOTHER OUT?
- HELP A MOTHER OUT (California) receives grants from 43 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,488,290 to it, the largest being SUNLIGHT GIVING ($815,000). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HELP A MOTHER OUT have?
- IRS filings report 43 organizations giving $3,488,290 in grants to HELP A MOTHER OUT, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HELP A MOTHER OUT?
- SUNLIGHT GIVING is the largest funder on record, with $815,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HELP A MOTHER OUT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 43 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