Lamaze International

Analysis

Lamaze International is a registered charity in United States, based in Raleigh, NC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in July 1975, 51 years ago. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Lamaze International reported income of $1.2m and spending of $1.4m, spending 116% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.6m to $1.2m (-25%), an average of -6.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income dropped by 27%. Over the whole period it spent 96% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Lamaze International sits at the 66th percentile: it is larger than about 66% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 82nd percentile, and in the 82nd percentile within NC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Chicago Medical Society Foundation ($1.2m), International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology Inc ($1.2m) and Mustard Seed Autism Project Inc ($1.2m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 0.2% and program service revenue 94% of the total. At year end it held assets of $1.8m against liabilities of $236k, net assets of $1.6m.