California · Nonprofit
Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services
Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $52k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $50k
- Net assets
- $3k
What Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services does
Mission
Mission: To increase breastfeeding rates in the Black and Brown community with individual consultation group education and community lactation training. To offer affordable lactation consultation and free support to our clients. We will strive to maintain an open space for our pregnant and postpartum families to learn share and explore their feelings around parenting and their infant feeding experience. We desire to activate our clients voice of self-advocacy amplify breastfeeding support in our community and increase lactation knowledge to parents birth workers and community members. Program Activities: Performed all activities stated in mission weekly monthly to incl. group & individual sessions community lactation trainings and education events to build a supportive community for parents. In addition we also offer workforce development & mentorship by providing continuous learning opportunities & career progression to support staff community members and lactation mentees.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
Breast Friends has expanded and strengthened the services we provide to Contra Costa County mothers and families ensuring that breastfeeding and postpartum support are accessible culturally relevant and trauma-informed. Our work has been anchored in both direct service delivery and capacity-building designed to respond to community-identified needs. Breastfeeding Support Groups: Our breastfeeding support groups provide a consistent and welcoming space for participants to gather learn and connect. These regular facilitated sessions are designed to offer both guidance and emotional encouragement helping participants navigate the early stages of their breastfeeding experience. Each group creates a safe and affirming environment where participants can openly discuss challenges such as latching milk supply and returning to work while also celebrating milestones and personal successes. Other services included peer counseling services we trained 4 new peer counselors to assist in expansion lactation consultations that include home support breastfeeding classes for families postpartum wellness through movement our Breast Friends latch line for over the phone support and we hosted our 2nd…
$87,000 spentof which $90,000 as grants62% of program spendingBreast Friends will provide clinical lactation and nutrition consultation to providers and patients with young children zero to three who access primary care in the clinic based in Oakland CA. Breast Friends experts will: Consult with program patients nurse practitioners social workers and physicians on patient and family treatment plans. Facilitate monthly nutrition milk feeding and lactation education and support groups for Black identified families. Conduct outreach and in-reach to families and providers to support group patient enrolment in aforementioned education and support groups and conduct post-group follow-up with participants. Conduct pre-and post-group evaluation for continuous quality improvement. Provide education to the team as a whole during Breast Friends clinical service days. Advise the program study team on evaluation research related to lactation milk feeding and nutrition services. Complete clinical documentation and administrative duties including charting and billing provided that appropriate access to do so is provided. Adapt Breast Friends program and services tailored to the program clinic needs and priorities. Develop and provide written patient and…
$53,000 spentof which $60,000 as grants38% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $140,000.
Leadership and staff
Chief executive
Brandi Gates-Burgess
Executive Director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990-EZ.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
100% of Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $50k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 14,851 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14,851 human services nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services
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In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services?
- Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $50,000 to it, the largest being EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ($50,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $50,000 in grants to Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services.
- Who is the largest funder of Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services?
- EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Breast Friends Lactation and Support Services find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing