Utah · Nonprofit
Mothers Without Borders
Mothers Without Borders (Utah) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,685,028 to it, the largest being Asea Advancing Life Foundation ($526,723). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.8M
- Funders on record
- 39
- Grants received
- $1.7M
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What Mothers Without Borders does
Mission
Mothers Without Borders is dedicated to fostering resilience and self-sufficiency in developing countries through a holistic approach to community empowerment, particularly focusing on the most vulnerable women, youth, and children. Our work is rooted in our commitment to nurture human potential, ensuring that every initiative is not just a temporary fix but a step towards lasting change.We envision a day where each community is equipped and empowered to develop sustainable solutions to the problems that place their children in crisis. This vision is brought to life through engaging with communities to spearhead initiatives that are conceived, developed, and sustained by the very people they aim to benefit. By amplifying local voices and knowledge, we construct programs that are culturally appropriate and contextually relevant and always focused on empowering individuals to lead self-sufficient lives.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Protecting & Nurturing Children: At Mothers Without Borders, protecting and nurturing children is foundational to our work. We believe every child deserves to grow up in a safe, supportive, and loving environment. Through our Jo Rescue Program and Children's Resource Center (CRC), we provide urgent care and long-term support to children who have experienced abuse, neglect, exploitation, or the loss of their primary caregivers.The Jo Rescue Program offers a comprehensive support system for pregnant adolescents who have been victims of sexual abuse and assault, placing the young women in safe homes where they receive loving care, prenatal medical support, counseling, trauma therapy, and the opportunity to continue their education. In 2024, we supported ten girls who had given birth and one who was pregnant.The Children's Resource Center is a residential center where children live until we can find them a safe home with relatives/foster families or until they turn 18 years old. Starting as a small program with 14 children who were rescued off the streets, the Center has since grown to support more than 400 children over the 20 years of its operation who have been brought in from…
$599,598 spent49% of program spendingEducating Children & Youth: At Mothers Without Borders, we believe that education is one of the most powerful tools for breaking the cycle of poverty and creating self-sufficient futures. That's why we support children and youth with access to quality education, nutritious meals, and a safe, supportive environment where they can grow, learn, and thrive.On our Lusaka West property, we operate a primary school for over 800 children from the surrounding community where children receive education and daily school lunch. This school provides first through seventh grade education, after which many of the students continue onto our Youth Empowerment programs which provide higher education and vocational training sponsorships, as well as youth mentoring. During school breaks, when school-based meals aren't available, we distribute food directly to families to ensure children do not go hungry.In 2024, we further developed our food relief program, which provided more than 725,000 meals to our program beneficiaries in Zambia. Core to our food relief program are our agriculture projects, which includes fruit orchards, crops, and animal cultivation (including chicken and duck projects). The…
$176,086 spentof which $80,475 as grants14% of program spendingEmpowering Youth & Women: At Mothers Without Borders, we believe that empowering youth and women is essential to building strong, resilient communities. Our work is rooted in the understanding that when women and young people have the tools, skills, and support to thrive, they can overcome barriers, break cycles of poverty, and transform the future for themselves and those around them.Participation in our Youth Empowerment Programs grew from 526 youth in 2023 to 1,627 in 2024, thanks in part to a strategic partnership with UNICEF, which expanded our reach and capacity. These programs include mentorship, life skills development, leadership training, and support for continued education or vocational training. Graduates of our youth programs may also join our entrepreneurial training and microloan initiative, which helps them start small businesses and achieve financial independence. In 2024, 19 youth empowerment graduates accessed loans.Additionally, our Women's Clubs expanded significantly in 2024, increasing from 6 groups to 24, serving 380 women (up from 174 in 2023). These clubs offer a powerful combination of peer support, entrepreneurial training, and access to microloans,…
$343,748 spent28% of program spendingInternational Advocacy and Education: At Mothers Without Borders, we engage the international community through volunteer expeditions that raise awareness of the challenges faced in Zambia and the power of community-led solutions. In 2024, Mothers Without Borders hosted five volunteer expedition teams in Zambia, bringing together 90 participants from 15 U.S. states and 4 countries, including Canada, Denmark, Australia, and Thailand. These participants supported local service projects, strengthened cross-cultural understanding, and returned as advocates for vulnerable women, youth, and children.
$113,043 spent$219,159 earned by the program9% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,232,475.
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 $1.1M to $2.1M (+85%).
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.
84% of Mothers Without Borders’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 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
Jackie Skinner
CEO
Board chair
Jared Noftle
Chairman
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $20k → $426k.
11 of 39 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% 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 Without Borders’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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 Without Borders has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% 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
41% 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 Without Borders.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 45% · 2019 84% · 2020 37% · 2021 30% · 2022 31% · 2023 76% — 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
39% of Mothers Without Borders's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
78% of Mothers Without Borders's grant income comes from Utah funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $629k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 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 Without Borders runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 8,126 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,126 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like Mothers Without Borders
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 Utah
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
78% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Mothers Without Borders: 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 Without Borders?
- Mothers Without Borders (Utah) receives grants from 39 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,685,028 to it, the largest being Asea Advancing Life Foundation ($526,723). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Mothers Without Borders have?
- IRS filings report 39 organizations giving $1,685,028 in grants to Mothers Without Borders, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Mothers Without Borders?
- Asea Advancing Life Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $526,723 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Mothers Without Borders find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Utah. 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 39 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