New York · Nonprofit
MOM STARTS HERE INC
MOM STARTS HERE INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,214 to it, the largest being WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $235k
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $372k
- Net assets
- $-25817
What Mom Starts Here Inc does
Mission
Mom starts here is a nonprofit organization serving albany, rensselaer, and schenectady counties. We connect women in unplanned pregnancies, young moms, and families in need to the resources available to them. We look to meed their needs, empower them, and assist them in their parenting journey.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Diaper assistance: families are provided a monthly supply of diapers for each diaper-wearing child, delivered in the mail once a month. During 2021, the organization provided over 100,000 diapers for 370 families. The diaper program is currently at capacity.
$5,266 spent3% of program spendingBaby items: parents who are in need of safe sleeping (pack n play) and travel (car seat) essentials are provided with them. They also receive baby items and accessories such as gently used clothing, blankets, hats, socks, shoes, chairs, swings, nursing essentials, bottles, and more. During 2021, the organization provided $6,000 worth of baby clothing and gently uses baby items and over $12,000 worth of car seats and pack n plays.
$27,934 spent14% of program spendingCoaching & resource navigation: clients meet with a care coordinator to discuss needs, goals, and setbacks. Coaching is done with the client to set actionable steps towards goals, provide referrals to community resources, and empower clients with mindset shifts. Care coordinators work to get a holistic view of client needs as individuals, parents, and community members.parent education: parent education classes are conducted in family, women and children shelters, as well as one on one for individual clients. Courses available are infant 101 (newborn-2 years), toddler basics (2-4 years), and early childhood (5-7 years).community baby showers: baby showers are held in accessible community locations within albany, rensselaer, and schenectady counties. Showers are open to the public, where expectant mothers and parents of children 0-5 are provided with gently used baby clothes and baby items.
$161,280 spent83% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $194,480.
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 2022 to 2023, from $58k to $19k (−67%).
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: 2023 40% · 2024 41%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of MOM STARTS HERE INC’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (91% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 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
Laurie Ballard
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose $25k → $68k.
5 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 15% 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 MOM STARTS HERE 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
MOM STARTS HERE INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% 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
57% 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 MOM STARTS HERE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 35% · 2022 40% · 2023 30% — 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
29% of MOM STARTS HERE INC's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 56% 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
95% of MOM STARTS HERE INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $58k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
MOM STARTS HERE INC has grown faster than three-quarters of the 21,616 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,616 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like MOM STARTS HERE 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 New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 MOM STARTS HERE 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 MOM STARTS HERE INC?
- MOM STARTS HERE INC (New York) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $372,214 to it, the largest being WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($75,000). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOM STARTS HERE INC have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $372,214 in grants to MOM STARTS HERE INC, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOM STARTS HERE INC?
- WRIGHT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $75,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOM STARTS HERE INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 16 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