The Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Ed

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
464406834
IRS 990 coverage
2019–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024, Form 990-N 2014
Location
Madison, WI, USA
Phone
6085716870
Rating
72
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Education N.E.C.

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$820,315
Expenses
$433,169
Assets
$749,764
Liabilities
$73,414

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

Leadership & pay

6 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Kathy Leeper (Vice President)
  • Anne Eglash (President)

Highest reported compensation

  • Kathy Leeper (Vice President): $18,594 total reported compensation
  • Liliana Simon (Treasurer): $4,400 total reported compensation
  • Janean Wedeking MD (Secretary): $4,250 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Institute for the Advancement of Breastfeeding and Lactation Education, Inc. is a nonprofit membership organization operated exclusively to promote and disseminate knowledge of breastfeeding and human lactation through the education of health professionals and other community supporters, with the ultimate goal of building Breastfeeding-Knowledgeable Medical Systems and Communities.

What it reported doing in 2024

TRAINING AND EDUCATION 1. Core Content of Clinical Breastfeeding Medicine Course via Webinar This 5-day course is a 30-hour intensive course covering the core, essential topics of breastfeeding and lactation medicine. This is an appropriate course for physicians, other providers, medical students and physicians-in-training who want to elevate their support for breastfeeding dyads in their practice, and/or who are beginning their specialty training in breastfeeding and lactation medicine. 2. Deep Dive- This is a longitudinal 2 year course in breastfeeding and lactation medicine, designed for physicians who want to apply for board certification through the North American Board of Breastfeeding and Lactation Medicine. Our first cohort for this program started in April 2024. 3. IABLE had a teaching contract in 2024 for Midwest WIC, which is a group of state WIC departments that come together to receive an educational grant from the USDA. The Midwest WIC group uses this educational grant to contract with various organizations/companies such as us to teach breastfeeding courses for their employees. 4.The Outpatient Breastfeeding Champion e-course This is a 14.5 hour on-demand ecourse that focuses on the most common concerns that breastfeeding families have. Participants are nurses, medical assistants, doulas and others in medical systems and communities who work directly with new families. 5. Case Discussion series- this is an ongoing monthly series, free to participants, which highlights a clinical case and discussed how to evaluate and manage the lactation problem faced by the family. 6. Clinician Teacher Healthcare Series- this is a monthly series that focuses on topics relevant to physicians and other providers who support breastfeeding parents. Topics have included counseling, research, teaching, billing 7. The Basics of Breastfeeding for the NICU-PICU- this is a 5 hour on-demand ecourse that aims to teach basic breastfeeding management skills for nurses, dietitians, lactation consultants, and providers who work with breastfeeding families in the neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. 8. Annual Abstract day- this is a free event to celebrate the annual World Breastfeeding Week in August each year. We invite researchers to submit their research abstract. We typically accept 9-10 abstract for presentation.

Operating model

Revenue model
Earned-program. 98% of the money available for current operations came from fees and other program revenue.
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 and most voting board members are independent. A relatively small share of available resources goes toward mission work and some filing-based governance responses are negative or unanswered.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 56
  • Transparency & Controls: 90
  • Accountability: 72
  • Sustainability: 71
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 47.5%; rating input score 47
  • Program expense ratio: 91.3%; rating input score 91
  • Fundraising efficiency: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd 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: 83.3%; rating input score 83; 19th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 5 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 56
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Fail
    • Other executive compensation review process: Fail
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Missing
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Fail

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 47.2%; rating input score 91; 91st percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.73; rating input score 60; 60th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.1; rating input score 43; 43rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 6.3%; rating input score 49; 49th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 23% per year; rating input score 100; 85th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 23.6% per year; rating input score 100; 89th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 34.2% per year; rating input score 100; 93rd percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 47.5% of revenue deployed · 91.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 5 of 6 board members independent · 5 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 1 filed program accomplishment · $396K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $19K · 6 people listed
  • Consistency: 23 of 23 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Filing history: 6 filing years from 2019 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 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.

  • Moderate — Financial Efficiency: Mission deployment rate scored 47/100.
  • Review — Accountability: Governance controls: 3 of 8 not reported.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Liabilities to assets ratio scored 43/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 49/100.