North Carolina · Nonprofit
LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC
LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,636 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($98,527). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $303k
- Net assets
- $2.3M
What La Leche League International Inc does
Mission
La leche league international, inc.'s mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Governance of international entities is a program through which the organization works with volunteers globally to maintain resources and structure to support la leche league leader accreditation and provide breastfeeding support and education for parents where they are located.
$148,894 spent41% of program spendingBreastfeeding support and education for parents is a program that provides breastfeeding support and education for parents through in-person peer support meetings as well as the organization's books, online publications, social media, website, and online events.
$77,301 spent$33,038 earned by the program21% of program spendingLeader accreditation and continuing education is a program that promotes worldwide standards that enable lll leaders to provide mother-to-mother breastfeeding support locally. Accreditation is attained and maintained through reading, observing meetings, attending workshops, keeping up-to-date on the latest research, learning effective communication skills, and practicing addressing questions and handling challenging situations.
$35,994 spent10% of program spendingConferences is a program through which the organization conducts a biannual conference for its members.
$101,519 spent$69,337 earned by the program28% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $363,708.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $928k to $1.9M (+107%).
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.
90% of LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Zion Tankard
Exec. Dir, ex-off
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $11k → $79k.
6 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% 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 LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC’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
LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 33% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 87% · 2018 38% · 2019 32% · 2020 34% · 2021 34% · 2022 44% · 2023 27% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
50% of LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 53% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC draws 77% of its grant income from funders outside North Carolina, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $132k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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
LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 718 international nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 718 international nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC
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 North Carolina
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
91%
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 LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC: 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 LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC (North Carolina) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $302,636 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($98,527). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $302,636 in grants to LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $98,527 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in North Carolina. 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 FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 19 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