Arkansas · Nonprofit
FED IS BEST FOUNDATION
FED IS BEST FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,287 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($25,908). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2024
- $48k
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $45k
- Net assets
- $2k
What Fed Is Best Foundation does
Mission
The organization's purpose is to educate parents and health professionals about the dangers of accidental starvation from insufficient feeding of infants, particularly if exclusive breastfeeding when breastfeeding is not enough. We examine the science of infant feeding and brain injury caused by starvation related complications of exclusive breastfeeding by critically reviewing stories of breastfeeding complications sent to us by parents and health professionals and studying the scientific medical literature. We develop guidelines and provide education to prevent these tragedies.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ.
Programs
In the year 2024, the Fed is best foundation continued its work to support parents and health professionals to feed newborns and infants safely and sufficiently. Our social media platform on Facebook has reached over 900,000 followers and includes the parent infant feeding support group, which provides direct one-on-one and group support for individual parents who have concerns about infant feeding. It is moderated by a panel of license lactation consultants, nurses and doctors that provide evidence based safe feeding advice. The goal of the group is to provide judgment-free, safe, evidence-based feeding advice to parents who are breastfeeding, combination feeding, formula feeding, pump breast milk feeding, and tube feeding in a way that prioritizes feeding infants so that they thrive. We also address maternal mental health issues related to modern pressures to feed infants in a particular way, especially when they are unable to achieve their feeding goals. We also support health professionals in a private health professional support group. This includes nurses, lactation professionals, and doctors who share concerns about the hospital quality metric that enforces avoidance of…
$26,358 spent100% of program spendingWe brought the senior members of the Fed Is Best Foundation, the lead author of the pediatric endocrine society neonatal hypoglycemia guidelines and a neonatologist representing dozens of neonatologists to meet via video conference with the top officials of the world health organization breastfeeding guidelines committee. We queried them regarding their knowledge of the complications that have resulted from over-aggressive promotion of exclusive breastfeeding, the starvation-related complications and the negative neurological consequences of these complications. We discovered from the meeting that the baby-friendly hospital initiative has never been tested or monitored for safety and that the provisions of the who bfhi program to prevent brain injury in starved breastfed newborns, namely to train health professionals to look out for danger signs like, "lethargy, convulsions and poor feeding," late signs of brain injury, were insufficient to protect newborns from serious and irreversible complications.
We have gathered the support and signatures of thousands of parents, newborn and pediatric nurses and physicians asking the CDC, the AAP and the Surgeon General to provide public health education on the dangers of insufficient feeding of newborns. We have recruited many skilled volunteers to help us reach public officials to make national change in infant feeding policy and patient rights protections.
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-EZ. Program spending in total: $26,358.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $10k to $19k (+82%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
100% of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (89% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $11k → $653.
2 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 65% 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 FED IS BEST FOUNDATION’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.
How concentrated its funding is
FED IS BEST FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 98%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
65% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund FED IS BEST FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 91% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 64% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. 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
65% of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION'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. Of the $16k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Arkansas, across 1 state.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $29k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states 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
FED IS BEST FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 660 science & tech nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 660 science & tech nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Organizations like FED IS BEST FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Arkansas
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Public support
100%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for FED IS BEST FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds FED IS BEST FOUNDATION?
- FED IS BEST FOUNDATION (Arkansas) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $45,287 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($25,908). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 65% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does FED IS BEST FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $45,287 in grants to FED IS BEST FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $25,908 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FED IS BEST FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Arkansas. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 4 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