Nonprofit · EIN 81-3316541
FED IS BEST FOUNDATION
Tax-exempt · LITTLE ROCK, AR 72223
Financials
| Year ended | Form | Revenue | Expenses | Net income | Total assets | Liabilities | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, 2024 | 990-EZ | $48,407 | $49,158 | -$751 | $1,524 | – | $1,524 |
| December 31, 2023 | 990-EZ | $31,741 | $35,890 | -$4,149 | $2,275 | – | $2,275 |
Financial details: 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024
Revenue
- Contributions, gifts and grants
- $48,407
Expenses
- Compensation of officers, directors and key employees
- $0
- Professional fees and payments to contractors
- $14,924
- Printing, publications and postage
- $1,222
- Other expenses
- $33,012
- Program services (functional)
- $26,358
Balance sheet and other
- Total assets, start of year
- $2,275
- Total assets, end of year
- $1,524
- Total liabilities, end of year
- –
- Net assets, end of year
- $1,524
- Cash, savings and investments
- $1,524
- Gross receipts
- $48,407
From the e-filed returns the IRS publishes as XML (latest three processing years; amended returns replace the original). PDF copies at the IRS.
Officers, directors and key employees
As listed on the 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024, highest compensation first.
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTIE DEL CASTILLO-HEGYI MD | SCIENCE DIRECTO | 10 | $0 |
| JODY SEGRAVE-DALY RN IBCLC | INFANT FEEDING | 40 | $0 |
| BETH DEL CASTILLO | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2023: 3 people
| Name | Title | Hours / week | Compensation |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHRISTIE DEL CASTILLO-HEGYI MD | SCIENCE DIRECTO | 10 | $0 |
| JODY SEGRAVE-DALY RN IBCLC | INFANT FEEDING | 40 | $0 |
| BETH DEL CASTILLO | Secretary | 5 | $0 |
Address and contacts
- Address (IRS master file)
- PO BOX 241736, LITTLE ROCK, AR 72223-0014
- In care of
- % CHRISTIE DEL CASTILLO-HEGYI
- Mailing address (990-N for 2016)
- PO Box 241736, Little Rock AR 72223
- Principal officer (990-N for 2016)
- Christie del Castillo Hegyi, PO Box 241736, Little Rock AR 72223
- Signed the 990-EZ
- CHRISTIE DEL CASTILLO-HEGYI MD, SCIENCE DIRECTOR
- Phone
- (501) 291-3697
- Website
- Www.fedisbest.org
- Return prepared by
- BRC Advisors LLC
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.
Program accomplishments
- 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.Expenses $26,358
- 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.
What it must file and when
IRS records say it files Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.
| Tax year | Year ended | Due | IRS public records |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | December 31, 2025 | May 15, 2026 | Not on file |
| 2024 | December 31, 2024 | May 15, 2025 | 990-EZ on file |
| 2023 | December 31, 2023 | May 15, 2024 | 990-EZ on file |
IRS record
- EIN
- 81-3316541
- Tax-exempt status
- 501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization
- Foundation status
- Publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi))
- Donations deductible (Pub 78)
- Public charity, 50% deduction limit
- Exempt since
- 2017
- Accounting year ends
- December
- Files
- Form 990-N (e-Postcard)
- Category (NTEE)
- Science and technology (U50)
- Assets (IRS master file)
- $1,524
- Income (IRS master file)
- $48,407
Filing history
| Form | Year ended | Revenue | Expenses | Assets | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 990-EZ | December 2024 | $48,407 | $49,158 | $1,524 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2023 | $31,741 | $35,890 | $2,275 | XML |
| 990-EZ | December 2022 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2021 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2020 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-EZ | December 2018 | – | – | – | IRS |
| 990-N for 2016 Officer: Christie del Castillo Hegyi | December 31, 2016 | ≤ $50,000 receipts | – | – | e-Postcard |
990-N: the IRS bulk file holds only the latest e-Postcard per organization; earlier years come from archived copies of that file since 2020 and can have gaps (the IRS e-Postcard search lists every one). 990, 990-EZ, 990-PF, 990-T: every e-filed return in the IRS e-file index since 2019; XML for the latest three processing years, amounts from the IRS Statistics of Income extracts before that. PDF copies and determination letters at the IRS (search EIN 81-3316541).
Questions about FED IS BEST FOUNDATION
- What is the EIN of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION?
- The employer identification number (EIN) of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION is 81-3316541.
- Is FED IS BEST FOUNDATION tax-exempt?
- Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2017.
- Are donations to FED IS BEST FOUNDATION tax-deductible?
- Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).
- Which annual return does FED IS BEST FOUNDATION file?
- Form 990-N (e-Postcard). Gross receipts normally $50,000 or less.
- When is the next return of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION due?
- The return for tax year 2025 (the year ending December 31, 2025) is due May 15, 2026. Form 8868 extends it by six months; the 990-N cannot be extended.
- When did FED IS BEST FOUNDATION last file with the IRS?
- The latest return in the IRS public files is the 990-EZ for the year ended December 2024.
- Who is the principal officer of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION?
- The 990-N for 2016 names Christie del Castillo Hegyi.
- Who are the officers and directors of FED IS BEST FOUNDATION?
- The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 3 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.
- How much revenue does FED IS BEST FOUNDATION have?
- On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $48,407, expenses of $49,158 and total assets of $1,524 at year end.
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