Governor Newsom announces free diapers for all new parents. (Photo: gov.ca.gov)
Gavin Newsom’s Free Diaper Program Already is a $77 Million Non-Profit
The state could just provide coupons for free diapers to new mothers
By Katy Grimes, May 9, 2026 9:40 am
“Why is the Newsom administration doing its business through non-profits?” I rhetorically asked on X Friday evening. My question was in response to yet another non-profit California Governor Gavin Newsom and the First Partner are promoting with taxpayer funding – and this one gives away free diapers. Isn’t that precious?
HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents. Launching this summer.
Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave. Stop talking about lowering costs for families — DO IT!
HUGE NEWS: California just became the FIRST state in America to provide FREE DIAPERS to all new parents.
Launching this summer.
Since I became Governor, we have made preschool FREE, school meals FREE, and expanded paid family leave.
Stop talking about lowering costs for… pic.twitter.com/2x919TdH24
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 8, 2026
What was Newsom on when he wrote that X post?
This latest grift of diapers is taxpayer funded, not “free,” nor is the preschool, school meals, or expanded paid family leave “free.”
This latest will give 400 diapers per newborn at discharge from participating hospitals. It should be noted that this “free” diaper program will provide diapers for illegal immigrants, as well.
Not all women delivering a baby need free diapers for a year. And if the governor was sincere about wanting to provide free diapers to women who need the financial assistance, he could eliminate a lot of bureaucracy and provide coupons to the mothers.
Gavin Newsom isn’t just giving away free diapers, he’s helping fund, at taxpayer expense, Baby2Baby, whose mission says it “provides children in need with diapers, clothing and all the basic necessities that every child deserves.”
And notably, one of Baby2Baby’s Co-CEOs, Norah Weinstein, sits on the board of the First Partner’s California Partners Project. “Kelly Sawyer Patricof and Norah Weinstein are the Co-CEOs of Baby2Baby,” their website says.
The Financials for BABY2BABY show that this non-profit is doing better than most California businesses.
Total revenue: $77,674,033
Total giving: $29,014,364
Total assets: $75,266,771
So why does the state of California need to send taxpayer funding to Baby2Baby? They are doing just fine financially.
“California is taking on the cost of raising a family head-on — delivering free school meals, making preschool free for every four-year-old, expanding after-school programs, and now making sure parents leave the hospital with the basics their newborn needs. Every baby born in California deserves a healthy start in life – and that means making sure parents have the basics they need from day one.”
Beginning this summer, every newborn delivered in a participating California hospital will receive 400 diapers at no cost to the family. Hospitals will provide diapers to families at the time of discharge, ensuring parents leave the hospital with an immediate supply of high-quality diapers tailored to newborn needs.
The goal of the program is to ease financial strain for families, reduce difficult trade-offs between diapers and other essentials, and support infant health by helping parents maintain an adequate supply of clean diapers.”
This is reminiscent of Newsom’s odious $1.5 billion in Covid mask deal with Chinese electric bus maker BYD… everyone gets free masks…
Okay, they want to give free diapers to every baby leaving the hospital.
“Through Baby2Baby’s existing statewide partnerships with hospitals, community-based organizations, and Welcome Baby programs, Baby2Baby will manage diaper procurement, warehousing, and hospital distribution of the Golden State Start program, providing diapers for newborns in all regions of the state.”
Hospitals already send new mothers home with some free diapers, donated by Pampers or Huggies.
And if Gov. Newsom was not running a new $20 million grift through a $77 million “non-profit,” the state could just provide coupons for free diapers to new mothers. But then money couldn’t be disappeared into a non-profit, or co-mingled, or diverted.
Baby2Baby sounds like one giant grift. It is not necessary. It’s not as if there is or has been a shortage of diapers. So why recreate the wheel? Why not buy diapers and send them to poor mothers? Instead, Baby2Baby manufactures their own diapers in Mexico.
They provide the “free” diapers, which are substandard to what is available at Walmart. Mom can buy 96 Huggies diapers for $24.97 today at Walmart.
Mom can buy 222 diapers at Costco for her 3-6 month old for $39:
California welfare recipients receive some of the most generous “benefits” in the nation. CalWORKS already provides a subsidy for diapers. And local diaper banks often provide free monthly diapers to families on Medi-Cal, CalWORKs, or CalFresh.
Around 400,000 to 402,000 babies are born in California each year. If each new baby received 400 diapers, that’s 160,000,000 diapers. I thought the left was concerned about diapers in the landfills.
Newsom’s administration is partnering with Baby2Baby with approximately $20 million in state funds to provide more free diapers. Why?
$20 Million is nearly one-quarter of Baby2Baby’s current revenues. That’s quite an additional boost of taxpayer funding to this well-established non-profit, which already receives 87.4% of its funding from the public.
Baby2Baby reports total assets of $75,266,771:
These are Baby2Baby’s “Functional Expenses:” Office expenses $2M, Occupancy $2M, Travel $157,500, Conferences $150,500, Miscellaneous $161,303 – these are some rich expenses.
Baby2Baby has 14 employees making more than $100,000 annually in compensation including the Head of Warehouse operations:
The Board of Directors of Baby2Baby is a Who’sWho of Hollywood, as is the list of Angels below:
Baby2Baby was founded in 2011, the year Gov. Jerry Brown assumed his 3rd term as governor, John Chiang was Controller, and Kamala Harris was Attorney General.
Even in their first years, Baby2Baby had $3.9 in revenue, and received $634,461 in government grants:
Functional expenses of $910,000 in year one:
More bank fees $29,000, than baby expenses $19,000?
Gavin Newsom got what he wanted from the media – headlines that said
“Gavin Newsom announces plan to give out free diapers for newborns.”
California becomes first US state to offer free diapers
However, nowhere does the governor explain why $20 million in taxpayer funds are needed by Baby2Baby when they clearly already have quite a system set up to provide diapers.
We will continue to report on this.
A California native and Navy mom, Katy lives in Sacramento, CA.
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Too easy! You have to reward your backers!!! Even better when it’s at Taxpayer Expense!!!
What about the old fuggers? They need diapers too. I see the tv commercials all the time. It’s embarrassing to buy them in the store, supposedly. “Nobody needs to know my business.”
Don’t give them any ideas. Next, we’ll be seeing a press release like “Governor Newsom announces program to distribute ‘free’ catheters for low-income Seniors”.
ask your doctor to get you Medicare palliative care; not only should that get you free adult continence but they free may deliver them as well. There are many other benefits you’ll appreciate, and it shouldn’t cost you a dime. Most seniors don’t know palliative care exists.
This is his so called solution to the rising costs of having a family! What a bunch of s88t ! The irony does not escape me that diapers are designed to capture the same excrement that comes out of his mouth!
Just like most problems we are now facing, politicians such as Newsom create the problems and then pretend to solve the problems. Newsom is no hero just a ZERO.
Yeah, I agree this is totally ridiculous even without all the other donkey tails we always have to pin on this stuff. But it’s classic Gavin and Jen! They’re so see-through, but they think they are not.
Samuel Clemons said:
“Politicians and diapers should both be changed regularly, and for the same reason.’
Democrats just move from one political office to another in California so there really isn’t any change because they bring the same failed liberal agenda with them.
The over 1.5 million tax-exempt nonprofit organizations (NPOs) established in the mid 20th century in the U.S. and eastern Europe have often become subversive, fraudulent and criminal actors. Wielding some $6 trillion dollars in assets, NPOs have prospered in the “charitable charade” of scams in government problems like immigration, healthcare, environmental and homelessness. They also play and pay in politics that is prohibited in IRS Code Section 501(c). Stop them!
I find it offensive he thinks our tax money is his private piggy bank to finance his wife’s friend’s NGO. Worst Governor in history of USA!
Plus, it strikes me (real hard) that this sort of thing not only buys the votes of the Dem-Marxist gullible-maudlin set (awwww, free diapers!), probably provides some sort of additional ability for more money laundering and, probably in the minds of Gavin and the First Wifey they think it makes up for all the support of baby-killing and public school children-harming to which they are addicted.
Yes! Totally. On the money @Show.
FREE!!! FREE!!! FREE!!!
We in California cannot WAIT until we are FREE of Gavin Newsom and his Weinstein-cumbucket wife, and “First Partner” in crime…
Chad Bianco or Steve Hilton is necessary to clean up the mess this jackaas Governor has made of California….
DEFINITELY HERB MORGAN for Controller!!!
Only Gavin “Hair gel Hitler” Newsom and his Weinstein trollop First Partner Jennifer would try to tout this “free” diaper program when they’re all about baby-killing abortions. As Katy Grimes pointed out, CalWORKS already provides a subsidy for diapers and local diaper banks often provide free monthly diapers to families on Medi-Cal, CalWORKs, or CalFresh. The reality is that Baby2Baby is just more taxpayer funded grift and graft perpetrated by the Newsom’s and the criminal Democrat thug mafia that controls the state.
So instead of sourcing the diapers from a domestic firm employing U.S. citizens, Baby2Baby manufactures their own diapers in Mexico where the cartels are probably involved with payoffs and kickbacks?
The Board of Directors of Baby2Baby and the list of “Angels” looks like a hellish coven of leftist Hollywood deep staters like Jessica Alba who no doubt sold their souls to the dark side for fame and wealth?
Norah Weinstein and Kelly Sawyer Patricof are the two Co-CEOs who founded Baby2baby. Norah Weinstein is a former lawyer who interned for Democrat President Clinton during his presidency. After meeting over dinner in Los Angeles, Kelly and Norah knew that they both wanted to “move into the [philanthropic] world exclusively, instead of having it on the periphery.” So they started this “free” diaper scheme and it’s probably been very lucrative for these two co-CEOS especially since taxpayer funding is involved? (https://www.createcultivate.com/blog/createcultivate100-philanthropy-baby2baby)
As Katy Grimes also pointed out, the Newsom’s and the leftist Democrats involved with Baby2Baby don’t seem to care that all those used diapers will end up in the landfills. Meanwhile California’s streets, roads and highways are full of potholes despite Californians paying high taxes to maintain them. Maybe those used diapers could be stuffed into all the potholes?
LOL TJ
TJ once again you give the readers a great background on the set up of the grift. For instance, the diapers made in Mexico more than likely are connected to a cartel. Mexico unfortunately is a narco-state, captured by the cartels. Americans need to realize it is run like the mob and has crossed over into U.S. border states.
It is very grim.
So, they’re (democrats) still doubling down on the fraud!
This is just another example of the California Democrat fraud and waste. Meanwhile, the entire state is falling apart, and middle class people can’t afford to live here after being taxed for all the giveaways, fraud and waste.
Get busy taxpayers!
How about free toilet paper?
How about free gasoline?
If one does the numbers, California is providing diapers at a cost to the taxpayers of $.50 a diaper. The same diapers at target are $.17 a diaper.
Somewhat like California’s FAIR HOUSING INSURANCE. The state charges $4k to insure your home when the cost from an insurer was $2.5k before the insurer left the state.
77 million in revenue vs 29 million in ‘giving’. By my math that’s about 37% actually getting to recipients and even that was paid by taxpayers. Most of the funding gets siphoned off in salaries and expenses providing jobs well paid jobs to the political connected. Even the warehouse guy makes 121K. And kickbacks and bribes no doubt going on all along the grift system.
These so-called ‘non-profits’ are a total scam and need to be investigated. So much fraud in this state if we ever get a Republican in office and expose all the grift and corruption going on we could probably cut our taxes in half and still retain core services.
Means more diapers discarded in the Oxnard Walmart parking lot