Texas · Nonprofit
MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC
MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,286,630 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($740,106). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $5.1M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $1.3M
- Net assets
- $15M
What Mothers' Milk Bank at Austin Inc does
Mission
The mothers' milk bank at austin (mmba) saves babies' lives by providing prescribed pasteurized donor human milk (pdhm). Physicians order is required for vulnerable and fragile infants; mmba's program for healthy infants does not require a prescription. The vulnerable population served makes up about 90% of our dispensed donor milk. The milk is mixed into targeted calorie and protein pools, heat processed to eradicate viruses and bacteria, and tested for verification of safety before dispensing.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The milk processing program is the primary work of mmba, and the costs are supported primarily through hospital payments in the form of processing fees.
$3,431,457 spent$4,436,091 earned by the program95% of program spendingThe charitable assistance program ensures that all babies with a medical need receive milk regardless of insurance or financial resources, and this program has expanded to include providing donor milk to babies whose mothers are sick or who have died, and babies who are healthy but need brief support through donor milk.
$63,555 spent2% of program spendingThe bridge program allows mothers of healthy infants to obtain donor milk for a short period while awaiting their own milk supply.
$129,776 spent4% of program spendingBreastfeeding equity program allows breastfeeding education to low income women and their families to help counter health outcome disparities.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $3,624,788.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 $12M to $14M (+17%).
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.
5% of MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (81% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Kimberly Updegrovecnmmsnmph
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 7 funders, grant income fell $420k → $67k.
8 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN 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
MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 81%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
80% 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 MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 73% · 2018 62% · 2019 75% · 2020 88% · 2021 66% · 2022 84% · 2023 45% — 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
36% of MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
97% of MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC's grant income comes from Texas funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $211k arriving through sponsors registered in 7 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' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 11,263 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,263 human services nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
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In Texas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
47%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC?
- MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC (Texas) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,286,630 to it, the largest being ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION ($740,106). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $1,286,630 in grants to MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC?
- ST DAVID'S FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $740,106 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MOTHERS' MILK BANK AT AUSTIN INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Texas. 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 22 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