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Form 990 for tax year 2023

Filed by MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE.

Totals

Total revenue
$6,086
Total expenses
$37,160
Contributions and grants received
$390
Grants paid
$0
Program service revenue
$0
Investment income
$0
Other revenue
$5,696
Total assets, end of year
$0
Total liabilities, end of year
$0
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$0
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$22,558
Management and general expenses
$8,758
Fundraising expenses
$5,844
Program service expenses (Part III)
$22,558

Program services were 60.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $390

  • 8a · Fundraising events: gross income

    $5,653

  • 8b · Fundraising events: direct expenses

    $0

  • 8c · Net income from fundraising events

    total $5,653 · excluded $5,653

  • 11a · Other revenue: MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE

    total $43 · related or exempt $43

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $43

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $18,096 · program services $10,857 · management and general $1,810 · fundraising $5,429

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $1,730 · program services $1,177 · management and general $138 · fundraising $415

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $884 · management and general $884

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $4,298 · program services $1,770 · management and general $2,528

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $628 · program services $532 · management and general $96

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $450 · program services $450

  • 24a · Other expenses: CRIBS FOR KIDS

    total $7,772 · program services $7,772

  • 24b · Other expenses: MEALS AND ENTERTAINMENT

    total $3,159 · management and general $3,159

  • 24c · Other expenses: MISCELLANEOUS

    total $143 · management and general $143

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $32,239 · end of year $0

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    end of year $0

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    end of year $0

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    end of year $0

  • 5 · Loans and receivables from officers and key people

    end of year $0

  • 6 · Loans and receivables from disqualified persons

    end of year $0

  • 7 · Other notes and loans receivable

    end of year $0

  • 8 · Inventories for sale or use

    end of year $0

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    end of year $0

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    end of year $0

  • 11 · Investments: publicly traded securities

    end of year $0

  • 12 · Investments: other securities

    end of year $0

  • 13 · Investments: program-related

    end of year $0

  • 14 · Intangible assets

    end of year $0

  • 15 · Other assets

    end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $1,165 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $31,074 · end of year $0

Mission and programs · 2023

Mission

THE MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT SAFETY ALLIANCE, INC. PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO FAMILIES WHO ARE OR MAY BE TOUCHED BY THE TRAGEDY OF SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME, SUDDEN UNEXPLAINED INFANT DEATH AND ANY OTHER INFANT LOSS. THE ALLIANCE ALSO PROVIDES TRAINING AND EDUCATION FROM CURRENT EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICES ON SIDS, SUID, AND A SAFE SLEEP ENVIRONMENT TO PARENTS, PROFESSIONALS, CAREGIVERS, AND LOW SOCIOECONOMIC COMMUNITIES/INDIVIDUALS, AND TO THE DISADVANTAGED HIGH RISK POPULATIONS. THE MISSISSIPPI SIDS AND INFANT ALLIANCE ALSO SUPPORT RESEARCH TO HELP ELIMINATE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH.

Activities or mission (Part I)

THE ALLIANCE PROVIDES SUPPORT SERVICES TO FAMILIES WHO ARE OR MAY BE TOUCHED BY SIDS.

  • CRIBS FOR KIDS:SINCE 2006, THE ALLIANCE HAS DISTRIBUTED OVER 5300 PACK-N-PLAYS TO FAMILIES THAT WERE IN NEED OF A SAFE SLEEP AREA FOR THEIR BABIES. THIS SAFE SLEEP AREA KEPT THE BABIES SAFE WHILE SLEEPING AND HELPED REDUCE THE RISK OF SIDS/SUID, ACCIDENTAL SUFFOCATION, AND OTHER SLEEP-RELATED DEATHS. THIS PROGRAM HAS BEEN MADE POSSIBLE THROUGH AMAZING INDIVIDUAL AND BUSINESS DONATIONS, GRANTS, PARTNERSHIPS, AND SPONSORSHIPS OVER THE PAST 17 YEARS. SINCE 1998, THROUGH THE DONATION OF THOUSANDS OF CRIBS, CRIBS FOR KIDS HAS BEEN MAKING AN IMPACT ON THE RATES OF BABIES DYING OF SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS) AND ACCIDENT SUFFOCATION. CRIBS FOR KIDS IS A SAFE-SLEEP EDUCATION PROGRAM FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES TO HELP REDUCE THE RISK OF INJURY AND DEATH OF INFANTS DUE TO UNSAFE SLEEP ENVIRONMENTS. CRIBS FOR KIDS CURRENTLY HAS 250 PARTNER PROGRAMS IN 44 STATES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY THAT PROVIDE A GRACO PACK N PLAY CRIB AND EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS REGARDING 'SAFE SLEEPING AND OTHER IMPORTANT SAFETY TIPS TO PROTECT YOUR BABY.

    Expenses $22,558

  • BABY BASICS:IN THIS PROGRAM THE ALLIANCE TRAVELS THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI PROVIDING EDUCATION ON SAFE SLEEP AND SIDS RISK REDUCTION TO FAMILIES WHO ARE EXPECTING A BABY OR WHO HAVE JUST HAD A BABY. THE ALLIANCE ALSO PROVIDES THIS EDUCATION TO GRANDPARENTS OR ANY CAREGIVER THAT WILL BE TAKING CARE OF AN INFANT. THE ALLIANCE WAS ABLE TO REACH HUNDREDS OF FAMILIES TO PROVIDE THIS VITAL INFANT SAFETY INFORMATION TO. OVER HALF OF THIS POPULATION HAD NEVER HEARD THIS INFORMATION OR HAD BEEN TAUGHT THROUGH CULTURE AND ELDER FAMILY MEMBERS THE WRONG WAYS TO KEEP A BABY SAFE WHEN THEY SLEEP. THE ALLIANCE WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE EACH FAMILY WITH A GOODY BAG COOLER THAT CONTAINED BABY PRODUCTS SUCH AS LOTION, SHAMPOO, A&D, SOCKS, BATH CLOTHS AND A TOOTHBRUSH. FAMILIES WERE ALSO PROVIDED A HALO SLEEP SACK THAT IS THE ONLY PRODUCT ENDORSED BY FIRST CANDLE TO REDUCE THE RISK OF SIDS. THEY ALSO RECEIVE THE AAP "CARING FOR YOUR BABY AND YOUNG CHILD, BIRTH TO AGE 5" BOOK.

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  • Withheld by Nonprofiteer: this text may name a private individual.

As filed on the 2023 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here. A text marked withheld matched a screen for wording that may name a private individual, such as an honorific or "in memory of". Most of what it withholds names no one; it is withheld so that what does is never shown.

Listed in Part VII

  • Brian Roach

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Jeff Files

    VICE PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Ted Tidwell

    TREASURER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Wendy Shelton

    LEGAL ADVISOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Dr David M Temple

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Patrick Grissom

    BOARD MEMBER

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

  • Cathy Files

    EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $18,445
    From this org
    $18,445
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $0
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those.

Grants on this return

No itemized grants to organizations on this return.

Assets distributed on this return

Schedule N, as filed: what the organization did with its assets when it liquidated or dissolved, or disposed of more than a quarter of them, and who received them. A recipient with an EIN is usually a successor organization; filers also list expenses such as legal fees here.

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2023
Filed
7 October 2024
IRS schema version
2023v5.1
Source object
202432819349301143

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