California · Nonprofit
MIRACLE BABIES
MIRACLE BABIES (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,620 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($316,843). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $317k
- Funders on record
- 52
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What Miracle Babies does
Mission
Miracle Babies is dedicated to helpingperinatal mothers and their families during their time of need by providingtransportation, mental health assistance, and supportive services.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Transportation services Miracle Babies provides transportation for families with a newborn(s)in a neonatal intensive care unit (nicu). The shuttle vans provide a home-to-hospital-to-home service enabling new parents to be united with their newborn. Miracle Babies works closely with hospital social workers to ensure nicu parents have access to their newborns addressing inequities for low-income parents through free access to transportation.
$297,848 spent61% of program spendingNot described on the e-filed return.
$158,354 spent33% of program spendingMental health assistance Miracle Babies provides individual therapy to nicu moms and moms with high-risk pregnancies in acute crisis. Miracle Babies supports parents during vulnerable times in order to improve their mental health and ultimately enhance their bonding relationship with their developing child. Support groups are offered in person or online and facilitated by a mental health clinician. Support groups can fill the gap between individual therapy and reach a maximum number of parents in need of immediate mental health support.
$30,695 spent6% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $486,897.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2020 to 2021, from $1.1M to $1.9M (+65%).
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: 2022 12% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of MIRACLE BABIES’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. 4 of the last 7 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 11 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose $93k → $284k.
12 of 52 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% 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 MIRACLE BABIES’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
MIRACLE BABIES has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% 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
66% 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 MIRACLE BABIES.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 30% · 2019 29% · 2020 35% · 2021 52% · 2022 22% · 2023 49% — growing more concentrated.
“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
26% of MIRACLE BABIES'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
60% of MIRACLE BABIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $538k that is directly attributable, 63% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $806k 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
MIRACLE BABIES's revenue fell 63% between 2018 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MIRACLE BABIES
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 MIRACLE BABIES: 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 MIRACLE BABIES?
- MIRACLE BABIES (California) receives grants from 52 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,344,620 to it, the largest being THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ($316,843). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIRACLE BABIES have?
- IRS filings report 52 organizations giving $1,344,620 in grants to MIRACLE BABIES, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIRACLE BABIES?
- THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $316,843 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIRACLE BABIES 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 52 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