Lamaze International

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
136104296
IRS 990 coverage
2010–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-T 2022
Location
Raleigh, NC, USA
Phone
9194592070
Rating
73
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Reproductive Health Care Facilities and Allied Services

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$915,161
Expenses
$1,522,640
Assets
$1,215,105
Liabilities
$97,159

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JESSICA DEEB (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBIN DOUTHIT (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • KACY CUTLER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)
  • SILVIA QUEVEDO (EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)

People named in this filing

  • JESSICA DEEB (PRESIDENT)
  • ROBIN DOUTHIT (PRESIDENT-ELECT)
  • KACY CUTLER (IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENT)

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

To advance safe and healthy pregnancy, birth and early parenting through evidence-based education and advocacy.

What it reported doing in 2024

Certification, accreditation, and education councils - the lamaze certification council (the "council") serves as the standard-setting and policy-making body for the council's certification. Each year, two certification exams are developed and administered. A lamaze certified childbirth educator ("lcce") must recertify every three years by either demonstrating they have acquired 25 contact hours of continuing education or have retaken and passed the lamaze certification exam. The council sets standards, guidelines and policy for the accreditation of lamaze childbirth education programs which prepare candidates for lamaze certification and grants formal approval to outside organizations seeking accreditation for offering lamaze contact hours for and educational offerings. The council maintains a high standard for its continuing professional education offerings using a clearly defined process for assessing need, planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating lamaze continuing education. In accordance with adult learning principles and professional education standards and ethics, and maintains the organization's status as an accredited provider of continuing nursing education through the american nurses credentialing center and California board of registered nursing.the lamaze education council ensures that all childbearing women have access to lamaze education through developing, implementing, and evaluating, high quality evidenced-based training for childbirth educators, high quality evidenced-based continuing education for childbirth educators and other health care professionals, and high quality evidence-based consumer education. The educational council's programs focus on childbirth educator training and resources, continuing education, and parent education, and include an lcce member-at-large which represents the needs of new educational council educators related to training, resources and continuing education to help assure that educational council's education offerings are relevant to childbirth educators and responsive to parents' needs, as well as the needs of interested professionals.

Operating model

Revenue model
Other-operating. 94% of the money available for current operations came from other operating revenue.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 99% 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

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of total spending goes to programs and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 69
  • Transparency & Controls: 79
  • Accountability: 100
  • Sustainability: 26
  • Growth: 0

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 89%; rating input score 89
  • Program expense ratio: 57.9%; rating input score 58
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 92.3%; rating input score 92; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: 67.6%; rating input score 68; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited
  • 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: -66.4%; rating input score 2; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.8; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.08; rating input score 46; 46th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 81; 81st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -9.2% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -5.8% per year; rating input score 0; 5th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: -3.8% per year; rating input score 0; 8th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 89% of revenue deployed · 57.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 11 of 11 board members independent · 7 of 7 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $882K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Highest-paid contractors: 1 contractor listed · $1M reported
  • Consistency: 27 of 28 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 4 filed schedules · includes grants
  • Filing history: 13 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 58/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 2/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Asset growth scored 0/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 36/100.
  • Review — Transparency & Controls: Domestic grant itemization did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 46/100.