Help a Mother Out

“An outside accounting firm prepares the tax returns. After completion of said returns, the organization is sent a draft of the tax returns to be reviewed and examined by the director of finance and the finance committee. If all items are found to be acceptable, the organization distributes copies of the completed returns to the board of directors. At which point, an authorization is signed and provided to the outside accounting firm to process, sign and provide copies of the returns to be filed (paper or electronically) with the designated governmental agencies. The tax returns are then signed by the organization, stamped with certified return receipt and timely placed in the mail for filing, or the form 8879 is provided to the outside accounting firm allowing electronic filing.”

“All board members sign the policy. ED and finance committee monitors financial activities, including to ensure no conflicts to address.”

“Annual salary surveys/ bands for all positions are reviewed annually (e.g., Northern California Non profit compensation survey 2021). Finance committee makes salary increase recommendation for ED position. Board votes on it as part of budget approval process.”

“Federal Tax Returns will be available at guidestar.org & charitynavigator.org.”

“Governing documents are available for public inspection at the principal place of business.The conflict of interest policy and the organization's financial statements are available upon request.”

“OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 4: CALIFORNIA DIAPER BANKHelp a Mother Outs California Diaper Bank provides one-time diaper grants for disaster relief as well as diapers for organizations that do not have a diaper bank in their area. This program allows us to make discretionary donations outside of our normal service area, when resources are available. An example of this program at work is the nearly 550,000 diapers we distributed to US UNHCR (US based non profit) in support of Ukraine. OTHER PROGRAM SERVICES 5: In FY22 (July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2022) Help a Mother Out distributed 11,662,102 diapers to 45,353 families. This was done through a network of 88 partner agencies participating in our three main programs. These programs are described in more detail below.”