California · Nonprofit
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,111 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $197k
- Funders on record
- 14
- Grants received
- $175k
- Net assets
- $96k
What Mothers' Helpers Inc does
Mission
Mothers' helpers receives new and gently used baby items like clothing, car seats, strollers, cribs, books, toys, etc. From the community and sorts and stores them in our support center. The purpose of collecting, storing, and sorting goods is so we can verify they are in good shape and distribute them to parents in need. Our purpose is to alleviate the stress of material hardship so parents can focus on nurturing their babies, resulting in more favorable outcomes.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Mothers' helpers receives new and gently used baby items from the community and distributes them to families in need to alleviate the stress of material hardship. For the year ended september 30, 2025, 662 families received assistance through this program.
$117,796 spent87% of program spendingEvery december a select number of families that received goods from mothers' helpers during the year are matched to sponsors in the community who buy christmas gifts for the children of the family. For the year ended september 30, 2025, 131 children received assistance through this program.
$17,503 spent13% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $135,299.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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 $65k to $96k (+46%).
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.
100% of MOTHERS' HELPERS INC’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. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Michelle Erickson
President and executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose $5k → $13k.
5 of 14 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 19% 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 MOTHERS' HELPERS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 39% · 2023 51% — 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
80% of MOTHERS' HELPERS INC's funders are still giving 1 year after their first grant; 36% 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
73% of MOTHERS' HELPERS INC's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $33k 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
MOTHERS' HELPERS INC runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 13,062 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 13,062 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Organizations like MOTHERS' HELPERS 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 California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
80%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MOTHERS' HELPERS 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 MOTHERS' HELPERS INC?
- MOTHERS' HELPERS INC (California) receives grants from 14 organizations whose IRS filings report $175,111 to it, the largest being WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA ($80,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTHERS' HELPERS INC have?
- IRS filings report 14 organizations giving $175,111 in grants to MOTHERS' HELPERS INC, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTHERS' HELPERS INC?
- WOMEN'S FUND OF SANTA BARBARA is the largest funder on record, with $80,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTHERS' HELPERS INC 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 FY2025 (financials across 2022–2025), and the filings of 14 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