North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
884190978
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2023–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Dublin, OH, USA
Rating
60
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Professional Societies, Associations

Reported finances

Revenue
$123,532
Expenses
$103,685
Assets
$105,105
Liabilities
$6,837

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

12 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Karen Bodnar (President)
  • Kristina Lehman (President)

People named in this filing

  • Karen Bodnar (President)
  • Kristina Lehman (President)
  • Shawna Lamond (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-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine NABBLM establishes standards for certification in Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine BFLM to advance excellence in patient care across all medical disciplines.

What it reported doing in 2025

The North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine NABBLM establishes standards for certification in Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine BFLM to advance excellence in patient care across all medical disciplines. In 2025 the organizations activities included 1. Board certification of physicians in the US and Canada in the specialty of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine 2. Accreditation of educational programs that a prospective applicant for board certification would need to complete to be eligible for the board certification exam.

Operating model

Revenue model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
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

SUPPORTED - The filed numbers largely add up. 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: 47
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 59
  • Growth: 20

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 43.5%; rating input score 44
  • Program expense ratio: 51.9%; rating input score 52

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 16.1%; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.01; rating input score 59; 59th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.07; rating input score 24; 24th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: -0.3% per year; rating input score 0; 28th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: -15.6% per year; rating input score 0; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 7.5% per year; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 43.5% of revenue deployed · 51.9% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $54K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 12 people listed
  • Consistency: 7 of 7 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 3 filing years from 2023 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 44/100.
  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Program expense ratio scored 52/100.
  • High — Growth: Program expense growth scored 0/100.
  • High — Growth: Revenue growth scored 0/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 59/100.
  • High — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 24/100.