Fed Is Best Foundation
Public records show a registered, tax-exempt organization in good standing.
What it says it does
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.
- Income
- $48,407
- Spending
- $49,158
- Reserves
- 0.4 months of spending
- Largest source of income
- donations and private grants, 100%
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Financial health
We do not score finances when yearly spending is very small or the return has too little detail. The ratios stop meaning much at that size.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Governance
This organization files the short tax form, which does not ask about boards, policies or audits. That is normal for a small charity and is not a mark against it.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Impact evidence
Describes programs. Its tax return describes what it does but we have found no measurable results in it.
Programs described in its return (3)
- $26,358 spent. 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 formula supplementation in breastfed infants, which has led to infants becoming excessively jaundiced, dehydrated, and hypoglycemic resulting in preventable hospitalizations and even long-term brain developmental problems and deaths. These professionals are commonly grappling with the ethical dilemma of being encouraged to tell parents that they're crying newborns are not hungry to avoid formula supplementation according to the hospital metric, when in fact they are and are at risk of developing starvation-related complications that can result in readmission, extended hospital admission, and long-term neurodevelopmental disability. We study the published scientific literature to understand what constitutes safe thresholds in the clinical management of infants as it relates to weight loss, bilirubin, glucose, and sodium levels. We also study what levels of jaundice, hypoglycemia and hypernatremia can result in long term developmental disabilities to help guide safer infant feeding policies. We also discuss ways we can support parents in a non-judgmental way in order to help them reach their infant feeding goals while ensuring the safe and humane feeding of their infants. We have also signed a book contract with Ben Bella, a publisher that distributes through Penguin House Publishing for our book, Fed is Best: Feeding Your Baby Through Breast, Bottle or Both, Which is expected to be released August of 2024. In this book we provide a comprehensive review of the history of breastfeeding and bottle feeding, the science of infant feeding, as well as a complete guide to breastfeeding, supplementing, combination feeding, formula and bottle feeding. We provide recommendations on how to closely monitor newborn breastfeeding initiation to prevent the serious complications of jaundice, dehydration, hypernatremia, and hyperglycemia and how to ensure healthy growth through the first year of life. We continue to draw media attention to the issue of safe and inclusive infant feeding support for all families. We have seen this influence extend into the professional realm as breast is best versus fed is best was discussed in the Pediatric Academic Societies 2022 conference where significant attention was paid to the safety issues of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative.
- WE 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.
Source: Form 990EZ for the year ending December 31, 2024, filed with the Internal Revenue Service. Rating method 2026.2. How we rate
Legitimacy checks
Is it registered with the IRS? Passed.
Listed in the IRS master file of tax-exempt organizations as a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Has the IRS revoked its tax-exempt status? Passed.
Not on the IRS automatic revocation list.
Source: Automatic revocation of exemption list, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Are donations tax-deductible? Passed.
On the IRS list of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions.
Source: Publication 78 data: organizations eligible for tax-deductible contributions, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it keeping up with its IRS filings? Passed.
Most recent return on file covers the year ending December 2024.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
How long has it been tax-exempt? Passed.
Recognized by the IRS since February 2017.
Source: Exempt Organizations Business Master File, Internal Revenue Service, file dated October 13, 2026.
Is it in good standing with state regulators? Passed.
Not on California's list of charities barred from soliciting. Other states are not yet checked.
Source: May Not Operate or Solicit for Charitable Purposes list, California Attorney General, Registry of Charities and Fundraisers, file dated October 21, 2026.
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