La Leche League International (LLLI)
Breastfeeding charityA global breastfeeding-support organization whose volunteer Leaders and central staff publish educational resources. · United States
Visit the source site · Audited 2026-10-14
Who pays for it
For the fiscal year ending March 2025, LLLI reported $1,502,702 in revenue, including $1,350,193 in contributions (about 89.9%); the filing does not classify donor sectors.
Status: Labeled
Labeled because LLLI is a peer-support organization, not a clinical guideline developer, and its pages do not follow a uniform evidence-grading method. Its donor-sector split and detailed standalone conflict-policy terms could not be verified.
How SafeMomma uses it
SafeMomma uses LLLI for breastfeeding peer-support context, not as a clinical guideline or systematic evidence review.
The audit
- Who controls it
- LLLI's accredited volunteer Leaders and central staff publish breastfeeding resources. Its Board-appointed Medical Advisory Team includes health professionals and researchers, but LLLI says the team provides information and does not represent the organization.
- Money
- LLLI's fiscal-year 2025 filing reports $1,502,702 in revenue, including $1,350,193 in contributions, about 89.9%. The filing does not classify donors by sector, and the annual report does not quantify its individual, foundation and corporate partners separately.
- Conflict rules
- LLLI lists a committee that reviews its WHO Code and other conflict policies and evaluates potential corporate relationships. A standalone conflict-policy page returned a not-found page, so detailed terms and donor-sector exceptions could not be verified.
- Method
- LLLI provides breastfeeding support, education and advocacy, not systematic evidence grading. Online resources include source links, but no uniform evidence-rating method was identified across the site.
- Dates on its pages
- The 2023–24 annual report described a policy review with a planned three-year cycle, while online pages do not consistently show publication or update dates.
- Political exposure
- In 2024, a governance dispute between LLLI and its separate British affiliate, LLLGB, concerned inclusion of nursing parents regardless of gender identity; a report said six LLLGB trustees were suspended. The reviewed register listed LLLGB as active with no regulatory finding, and the dispute was not evidence of a change to clinical breastfeeding guidance.
- Money exposure
- LLLI's 2025 filing does not identify donor sectors, and its 2023–24 annual report mentions corporate partners without quantifying them. Its committee reviews potential corporate relationships and LLLI endorses the WHO Code; no funding-linked change to scientific content was identified.
- Track record
- LLLI is an established peer-support network with a Medical Advisory Team, but it does not publish a uniform evidence-grading process. No scientific retraction relevant to breastfeeding advice was identified; the 2024 governance dispute was not evidence of a scientific conclusion being reversed.
Where this comes from
Incentive exposure describes pressure from money or politics, not whether the source is right. Funding alone does not show influence.