Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

Analysis

Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine is a registered charity in United States, based in Schaumburg, IL. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in October 2001, 25 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 (donations from the general public) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine reported income of $550k and spending of $730k, spending 133% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income grew from $307k to $550k (+79%), an average of +16% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 38%. Over the whole period it spent 144% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine sits at the 56th percentile: it is larger than about 56% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 72nd percentile, and in the 71st percentile within IL. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Randys House of Greenville Inc ($550k), Campaign for Trauma Informed Policy and Practice ($550k) and International Anal Neoplasia Society ($550k).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 46% and program service revenue 51% of the total. At year end it held assets of $699k against liabilities of $291k, net assets of $409k.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.