New York · Nonprofit
SAVING MOTHERS
SAVING MOTHERS (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($176,575). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $442k
- Funders on record
- 25
- Grants received
- $915k
- Net assets
- $148k
What Saving Mothers does
Mission
An organization dedicated to eradicating preventable maternal deaths and birth-related complications in developing countries. We do this by: (1) educating birth attendants and other healthcare providers in underserved communities (2) performing pro bono surgeries to address birth-related complications such as fistula and incontinence, and (3) pioneering low-cost, low-tech interventions such as our safe birth kits and post-partum hemorrhage kits.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The organization seeks to accomplish its mission by: 1) educating birth attendants and other health providers in underserved communities; 2) performing pro bono surgeries to address birth-related complications such as fistula and incontinence; and 3) pioneering low-cost, low-tech interventions such as our safe birth kits and post-partum hemorrhage kits.
$320,675 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $320,675.
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 $25k to $105k (+314%).
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 SAVING MOTHERS’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. 4 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
Lisa Gilligan
Executive director
Board chair
Jacques Moritz
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell $145k → $86k.
8 of 25 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 61% 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 SAVING MOTHERS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 24 of 25 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
SAVING MOTHERS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 19% 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
65% 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 SAVING MOTHERS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 69% · 2018 51% · 2019 35% · 2020 32% · 2021 22% · 2022 42% · 2023 36% — 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
46% of SAVING MOTHERS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% 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
61% of SAVING MOTHERS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $358k that is directly attributable, 51% of it comes from funders outside New York, across 12 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $556k 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
SAVING MOTHERS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 21,648 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 21,648 human services nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Organizations like SAVING MOTHERS
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
86% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Mommy Matters Inc · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SAVING MOTHERS: 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 SAVING MOTHERS?
- SAVING MOTHERS (New York) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $914,506 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($176,575). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 61% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does SAVING MOTHERS have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $914,506 in grants to SAVING MOTHERS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAVING MOTHERS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $176,575 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAVING MOTHERS 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 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