La Leche League International Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 362514518
- IRS 990 coverage
- 2010–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2022
- Location
- Raleigh, NC, USA
- Phone
- 9194596091
- Rating
- 57
- Verdict
- MIXED
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- International Development
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $1,502,702
- Expenses
- $632,962
- Assets
- $2,619,627
- Liabilities
- $353,620
Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
15 people listed
People named in this filing
- TIZIANA DE MEO (MEMBER)
- CAROLYN DRIVER-BURGESS (VICE CHAIR)
- ELISABETH MICHAELIDOU (MEMBER)
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 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
La leche league international, inc.'s mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
What it reported doing in 2024
Leader accreditation and continuing education is a program that promotes worldwide standards that enable lll leaders to provide mother-to-mother breastfeeding support locally. Accreditation is attained and maintained through reading, observing meetings, attending workshops, keeping up-to-date on the latest research, learning effective communication skills, and practicing addressing questions and handling challenging situations.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 83% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- 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.
- Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.
The verdict
MIXED - Most voting board members are independent and revenue comfortably covers expenses. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filing reports few safeguards for money sent abroad.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 40
- Transparency & Controls: 52
- Accountability: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 20
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 27.5%; rating input score 28
- Program expense ratio: 57.5%; rating input score 57
- Fundraising efficiency: $12.68 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 93.3%; rating input score 93; 22nd percentile among comparable filings
- Pay-setting controls: Limited
- Foreign activity oversight: Scored; rating input score 0
- Grant itemization coverage: Scored; rating input score 0
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
- Related-party transparency: Limited
Accountability
- Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
- Governance controls: 7 of 7 controls in place; rating input score 100
- Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
- Whistleblower policy: Pass
- Document-retention policy: Pass
- CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Other executive compensation review process: NotApplicable
- Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
- Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
- Audit committee oversight: Pass
- Independent financial-statement audit: Pass
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 57.9%; rating input score 94; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.14; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.13; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: -8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: -5.7% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 2.4% per year; rating input score 100; 27th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 27.5% of revenue deployed · 57.5% of spending went to programs
- Governance: 14 of 14 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
- Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $364K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 15 people listed
- Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $360K reported
- Consistency: 26 of 27 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 7 filed schedules · includes major donors and foreign activity
- Filing history: 14 filing years from 2010 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: Resolved incoming and outgoing counterparties from filed money flows.
- 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 28/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Foreign activity oversight scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency & Controls: Grant itemization coverage scored 0/100.
- Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 57/100.
- Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 45/100.
- High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
- High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Schedule A contributions reconciliation did not reconcile in the filed values.
- Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 38/100.