2026-05-14T17:20:51-04:00 2025-12-31 474399386 Heyward CPA PLLC 2530 Meridian Pkwy STE 300 Durham NC 27713 990 2025-01-01 851683518 BREASTFEEDING FAMILY FRIENDLY COMMUNITIES BREA 9196228787 6319 Coronado Ln Durham NC 27713 Love President & CEO 9196228787 2026-05-14 false James Heyward P00640559 9198864829 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z Breastfeed Durham Breastfeed Orange NC Safe Infant Feeding Love Anderson 6319 Coronado Ln Durham NC 27713 326624 false X https://breastfeedingcommunities.org/ X 2020 NC The mission of BFFC is to foster community-led breastfeeding family friendly communities globally by advocating for practices that support breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding, using a Ten Steps approach that complements and broadens the scope of the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF guidelines. BFFC envisions support for all breastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding families, inclusive of, but not limited to, their race, ethnicity, immigration status, national origin, creed, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, family structure, primary language, ability, or socio-economic status. 5 3 10 150 0 0 230938 358506 147811 -31894 0 0 -1580 -14 377169 326598 0 0 0 0 75352 111267 750 0 1870 222812 223641 298914 334908 78255 -8310 119864 114408 -2610 246 122474 114162 X The mission of BFFC is to foster community-led breastfeeding family friendly communities globally by advocating for practices that supportbreastfeeding, chestfeeding, and human milk feeding, using a Ten Steps approach that complements and broadens the scope of the World HealthOrganization (WHO) and UNICEF guidelines. 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Form 990 governing body review (Part VI, line 11) Upon the completion the Board of Directors review the return for correctness and reasonableness. 02. Form 990 CEO, executive director, top management comp (Part VI, line 15a) The Board of Directors reviews the salary of the Executive Director annually and compares with other marketable salaries in the area. 03. Form 990 Governing documents, etc, available to public (Part VI, line 19) The Board of Directors vet each member annually to determine if there is no conflict of interest. The availability of the governing body documents are available upon request by mail or upon completion of the Form 990. The Board of Directors review the Form 990 before submission for compliance and reasonability 05. Form 990 Part VI Governance Management and Disclosure Part IV Section B Line 12a 12b Policies Bylaws include a written conflict of interest policy Article VII. Officers or board members must disclose when their financial interests could give rise to a conflict. The process includes disclosure, recusal from voting board investigation and documentation in minutes. Annual statements from directors and officers affirm receipt understanding and compliance with the policy. The policy includes periodic reviews of compensation arrangements and other transactions. 06. Form 990 Part VI Governance Management and Disclosure Part IV Section B Line 13 Policies Written Whistleblower Policy no separate standalone whistleblower policy exists. Our Employee Handbook includes a Compliance and Ethics and antiretaliation protections under the Code of Conduct which serve the functional purpose of a whistleblower mechanism 07. Form 990 Part VI Governance Management and Disclosure Part IV Section B Line 14 Policies Written Document Retention and Destruction Policy separate stand-alone document retention, and destruction policy is in place by our Employee Handbooks, which contains a Records and Reports section that states that all records must be kept so that an 08. Form 990 Part VI Governance Management and Disclosure Part IV Section B Line 15 and 15a Policies Compensation Process for CEO Executive Director Top Management and Other Key Employees. Our bylaws Article VII Section and required periodic reviews of compensation arrangements. Whether compensation arrangements and benefits are reasonable and based on competent survey information and arm's length bargaining. Whether any joint ventures or arrangements with management organizations conform to written policies are properly recorded reflect reasonable payments for goods and services and do not result in inurement or excess benefit transactions. Within our organization all staff including officers and key employees are paid an hourly rate of 25 per hour as noted in our prior correspondence. The board reviews compensation periodically and ensures there is comparability and fairness across roles 09. Form 990 Part III Lines 4a through 4d Program service revenue reported in Part VIII line 2 has been allocated to program service lines 4a through 4d based on each programs proportionate share of total program service expenses for the tax year. This allocation method is reasonable consistent and reflects the organization's operations 10. Form 990 Part VII Line 1a In Kind Services of Love Anderson received no salary cash compensation $21,400 and donated August through December of $22,000, due to organizational cash flow constraints. Compensation of $43,400 total service value covers January through July only of 30 weeks at $35 hour for 40 hours. 11. Form 990 Part VIII Line 1g and Part IX In-Kind amount $46,000, Contributor Ian Anderson Chief Technology Officer Services $24,000, $2,000 month over 12 months of 2025 donated CTO services. Contributor Love Anderson donated salary $22,000 from August-December 2025, $5,500 month over remainder of the year, with August transition month with $0 recorded.