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Mommas Safe Haven

Mommas Safe Haven (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,533 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$112k
Funders on record
5
Grants received
$81k
Net assets
$2k
2/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%
01What it does

What Mommas Safe Haven does

Mission

Mommas Safe Haven provides youth development programming for underserved youth in Washington DC. Programs include mentorship creative arts education trauma-informed activities life-skills development and community engagement initiatives. In 2025 the organization hosted youth enrichment programs community healing retreats educational field trips and the annual DC Youth Got Talent showcase serving hundreds of youth and families

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.

Programs

  1. Career Exploration Program was a huge success. In partnership with the Department of Employment Services to host 50-14-16 year old youth in the areas of resume writing career building skills life skills fishing public speaking conflict resolution barbering cosmetology and business 101

    $36,000 spentof which $36,000 as grants
    51% of program spending
  2. Resilience Academy Summer Enrichment Program provides underserves families with a safe space for art therapy healthy meals with a summer feeding program serving 60 individuals breakfast and lunch 5 days a week. We offer summer enrichment in areas of reading spelling math and comprehension. We received support from The Woodson Center

    $15,000 spentof which $15,000 as grants
    21% of program spending
  3. Healing Retreat for Grieving Families to Massanutten provides families who are healing from a traumatic experience such as loss of a child or loved one to gun violence. Families enjoy an all expense paid trip for 7 nights and 8 days in nature with healthy meals support groups meditations sessions vision boards and peace and quiet away from the city noise. This program was support by DC ONSE office and the Woodson Center Voices of Black Mothers Uniter

    $18,956 spentof which $18,956 as grants
    27% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $69,956.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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.

100 = 20232023 Revenue 100 ($205k) Expenses 100 ($122k) Net assets 100 ($83k)2024 Revenue 76 ($155k) Expenses 151 ($185k) Net assets 6 ($5k)2025 Revenue 55 ($112k) Expenses 93 ($113k) Net assets 3 ($2k)
202320242025
Revenue (55)Expenses (93)Net assets (3)Peer revenue range

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 $83k to $7k (−91%).

$83k
$7k
$2k
202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of Mommas Safe Haven’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 19,547 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 3 reported years ran a deficit.

$83k
’23
−$30k
’24
−$2k
’25
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2020 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose $30k → $34k.

Funder
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Woodson Centerunclassified
$8k
Serve Your Cityunclassified
$6k
funders
3
1
1
3
1

From the IRS filings of Mommas Safe Haven’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

Mommas Safe Haven leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

85% 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 Mommas Safe Haven.

43%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 68% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 75% — 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.

Where its funders are

75% of Mommas Safe Haven's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

NY
DC

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’20
’21
’22
’23
Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

Mommas Safe Haven's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−1% · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−26% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,634 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds Mommas Safe Haven?
Mommas Safe Haven (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 5 organizations whose IRS filings report $80,533 to it, the largest being CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT ($35,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Mommas Safe Haven have?
IRS filings report 5 organizations giving $80,533 in grants to Mommas Safe Haven, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Mommas Safe Haven?
CENTER FOR NONPROFIT ADVANCEMENT is the largest funder on record, with $35,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Mommas Safe Haven find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 2023–2025), and the filings of 5 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