International Childbirth Education Association
Legal name: International Childbirth Education Association Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 910774818
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2016–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2025
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9198639487
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $214,878
- Expenses
- $171,412
- Assets
- $276,215
- Liabilities
- $11,524
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
18 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- DEBBIE YOUNG (PRESIDENT)
People named in this filing
- JACQUELINE ABBOTT (DIRECTOR)
- AMANDA AFDAHL (VICE PRESIDE)
- CONNIE BACH-JECKELL (DIRECTOR)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Our mission is to educate, certify and create a community of professionals working to increase global access to safe, culturally respectful family-centered perinatal care.
What it reported doing in 2025
Distribution of books and pamphlets to educate individuals on the childbirth process and parenting.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Earned-program. 96% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
- Distribution model
- Hybrid. The nonprofit split its reported program spending across 79% for direct work, and 21% for grants.
The verdict
MIXED - The filed numbers largely add up and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and a relatively small share of total spending goes to programs.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 28
- Transparency & Controls: 90
- Accountability: 76
- Sustainability: 60
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 28.8%; rating input score 29
- Program expense ratio: 36.7%; rating input score 37
- Fundraising efficiency: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Limited
- Grant itemization coverage: Limited
- Major donor itemization: Limited
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 64th percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 3 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 43
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Fail
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Fail
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Missing
- Independent financial-statement audit: Fail
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 20.2%; rating input score 71; 71st percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 53; 53rd percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.04; rating input score 29; 29th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 67; 67th percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 12th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -4.3% per year; rating input score 0; 10th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 22.7% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- What they do: 3 programs and campaigns described on the official site · 1 operating location identified
- Where the money goes: 28.8% of revenue deployed · 36.7% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 17 of 17 board members independent · 3 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $63K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 18 people listed
- Consistency: 20 of 20 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Filing history: 10 filing years from 2016 to 2025
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- 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 — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 29/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 37/100.
- Moderate — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 6 not reported.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 53/100.
- High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 29/100.