Baby Cafe USA Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 800787743
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2013–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Wakefield, MA, USA
- Rating
- 95
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $60,675
- Expenses
- $142,305
- Assets
- $40,228
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
10 people listed
People named in this filing
- LUCIA JENKINS (CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER)
- LISA MILLER (EXCUTIVE DIRECTOR)
- THOMAS D JENKINS (TREASURER)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Support and coordination of lactation consultants to provide free lactation counseling to mothers and babies in a relaxed atmosphere. Data collection and analyses to support benefits of program and efforts.
What it reported doing in 2025
Data Collection and Analyses includes 3 year pre-pay for Caspio software. Collection and data analyses from 150 baby cafes to assess the program benefits and provide information for support of grant applications,
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Membership-supported. 66% of the money available for current operations came from membership dues.
- Distribution model
- Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Expenses are high relative to revenue and total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 100
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 9
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 100%; rating input score 100
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: -134.5%; rating input score 6; 6th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.28; rating input score 22; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 68%; rating input score 1; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 22.6% per year; rating input score 100; 83rd percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 13% per year; rating input score 100; 84th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 9.9% per year; rating input score 100; 70th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 100% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 10 filed program accomplishments · $142K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 10 people listed
- Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 12 filing years from 2013 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 7 filed money-flow records
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 6/100.
- High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 22/100.
- High — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 1/100.