Greater DC Diaper Bank

Analysis

Greater DC Diaper Bank is a registered charity in United States, based in Silver Spring, MD. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 2011, 15 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Greater DC Diaper Bank reported income of $4.6m and spending of $4.8m, spending 104% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $2.0m to $4.6m (+128%), an average of +23% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 99%. Over the whole period it spent 86% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, Greater DC Diaper Bank sits at the 90th percentile: it is larger than about 90% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 92nd percentile, and in the 90th percentile within MD. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Alaska Native Women-S Resource Center ($4.6m), Exira Care Center Corporation ($4.6m) and Edgewood-Brookland Family Support Collaborative ($4.6m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 99% of the total. Compensation of current officers, directors and key employees was $188k (3.9% of expenses). Other salaries and wages came to $593k. It paid $20k in professional fundraising fees. At year end it held assets of $3.3m against liabilities of $114k, net assets of $3.2m. It reported 14 employees.