PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC

Financials

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.

Address and contacts

Address (IRS master file)

PO BOX 286, GREENSBORO, NC 27402-0286

In care of

% BOB LEROY

Mailing address (990-N for 2016)

P O Box 286, Asheville NC 28802

Principal officer (990-N for 2016)

Bob LeRoy, 55 Grove St Apt 4, Asheville NC 28801

Signed the 990-EZ

Bob LeRoy, President/Treas

Phone

(914) 413-8394

Website

www.p-pod.org

Mission

Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc., known as P-POD, is incorporated as a North Carolina nonprofit corporation dedicated strictly to educational purposes, and recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt Section 501(c)(3) organization. P-POD serves the general public as well as providing accredited continuing education to practitioners and students in health-related professions. The annual national P-POD Conference is devoted to the advancement of public health in the U.S., via an evidence-based investigation of how society's major chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, diabetes and chronic kidney disease, may largely be prevented, and in many cases treated, via lifestyle changes among individuals and in communities. The P-POD Conferences draw upon the scientific research literature and clinical experience in human nutrition, to identify protective mechanisms and health benefits that may be provided via plant-based dietary choices and allied lifesty

Program accomplishments

• As of 2024, the Section 501(c)(3) recognized nonprofit educational organization Plant-based Prevention Of Disease, Inc. (P-POD) has now produced 46 days of fully accredited conferences, and has awarded 284 hours of live professional continuing education credits, in 18 conferences since its 2014 founding. All of this has been accomplished while always accepting ZERO funding, sponsorship or influence from commercial sources.The P-POD Conferences share evidence with healthcare practitioners, educators and students, but also with the general public, regarding best practices to help prevent or reverse chronic disease through nutrition and lifestyle changes, while seeking to reduce inequitable disparities in healthcare access and outcomes. The P-POD motto has long been the future of healthcare begins with nutrition, but accumulating evidence shows that the other pillars of Lifestyle Medicine can also make a substantial contribution to disease reduction: beneficial physical activity; strategies to manage stress; forming and maintaining social relationships; improving sleep; avoiding risky substances. P-POD was the third conference event producer in the world accredited for Lifestyle Medicine credentialing purposes that remains so certified today.P-POD responded to the steady shifting of practitioner demand toward the virtual mode of continuing education, by providing virtual access to all 6 conference days in 2024, while retaining in-person attendance access for 2 of them, which were produced on June 1-2 at the most frequent past site, McKimmon Conference Center of North Carolina State University in Raleigh. In this, the third year that hybrid conferencing was utilized, overall virtual attendance for the year continued to increase substantially. As in the past, all conference days were accredited for providing professional continuing education credits to physicians, family physicians, physician associates, nurse practitioners, registered dietitians, registered nurses and various other practitioners, a very broad range of professional disciplines throughout the entire healthcare team. P-POD assembles a curated speaker roster of distinguished clinicians, researchers and educators who also reflect societys diversity. We believe that any nutrition conference should represent Registered Dietitian Nutritionists well among its speakers, and P-POD has done that: 84 RDNs in 18 conferences since founding. One generic indicator of the professional caliber of the presenters is the fact that 42% of P-PODs speakers over the last ten conferences have been honored as Fellows of prestigious professional organizations, such as: American College of Cardiology; American Society of Nephrology; American Academy of Pediatrics; American College of Physicians; American Academy of Nurse Practitioners; American College of Endocrinology; American College of Osteopathic Internists; American College of Sports Medicine; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions; American Society of Nuclear Cardiology; Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; American Heart Association; American Society of Addiction Medicine; American College of Lifestyle Medicine; and others. Additional data about the last ten conferences shows that 47% of the speakers have been certified Lifestyle Medicine Diplomates, 29% have been African Americans and for each one the majority have been women, three facts that further set us apart from most professional conferences.The 2024 speaker roster for our 6 days included 5 individuals chosen as keynote speakers: Qadira M. Ali, MD MPH FAAP DipABLM; Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, DO MPH MS FAAP DipABLM NBC-HWC; Lily Correa, MPH RDN DipACLM; Mahima Gulati, MD FACE MSc FACLM DipABLM ECNU; and Liana Lianov, MD MPH FACPM FACLM DipABLM. They covered a remarkable range of subjects: diabetes remission; PCOS and women's hormonal disorders; employee wellness and nutrition; community action against family food insecurity; plant-based nutrition for children; sleep; and positive psychology. Our recent tradition of offering compelling interactive-discussion duets between renowned visionary presenters, continued in 2024 with Columbus Batiste, MD FACC FSCAI and Neha Pathak, MD FACP DipABLM on Using Lifestyle Medicine as a Means to Address Social and Environmental Determinants of Health and Beth Frates, MD FACLM DipABLM and Elizabeth Winings, DNP APRN PMHNP DipACLM on The Mental Health Implications of Social Connection or Loneliness. One of our longest-standing traditions is the Annual Women's Health Empowerment Round Table, which was held 3 times on 3 weekends, once as a round table trio and twice as a duet.A unique touching moment in our 2024 in-person conference was presenting P-PODs Lifetime Achievement Award to Michael Klaper, MD DipABLM at his 4th P-POD speaking occasion since 2017. Dr. Klapers many-decades-long career in practice and as an educator followed a 1972 medical degree and advanced training in surgery, anesthesiology, orthopedics and obstetrics, and he has tirelessly advocated for integrating nutrition into medical practice, medical training and disease prevention awareness. He may be unequaled as an international lecturer and visionary evidence-gatherer regarding the causality of chronic disease and the preventive attributes of whole food plant-based diets, with particular attention to subject matter such as allergenic and autoimmune processes, postprandial effects of dietary fats, and the health and disruptions of the gut environment and microbiome.Overall, our 2024 educational content thoroughly and in a balanced way represented the innovative P-POD curriculum of 15 Core Topic Areas that is detailed at core.p-pod.org. Cardiologists appeared in 6 presentations this year, and Core Topics that focused on specific types of chronic disease, such as Cancer prevention and survivorship, Diabetes prevention, remission or reversal or Kidney health and chronic kidney disease, were each fully addressed by at least 3 presentations in the 3 weekends, as were Core Topics related to pediatrics or the microbiome. Our newest Core Topic, and one of very high attendee interest, Practitioners' own self-care vs. burnout and chronic disease risks, as always was taken into account as speakers explored subjects of many kinds, but also was dealt with directly and deeply in presentations such as Mobilizing Lifestyle Medicine Pillars to Reduce Chronic Stress and Enhance Quality of Life and Serving Others AND Preserving Self.The Exercise physiology, and movement in daily lifestyle Core Topic, also much in demand, was covered in each weekend from varying standpoints, such as the health benefits of strength building, the cellular mechanisms underlying exercise-as-medicine, and how to support physical activity optimally with plant-based nutrition. The first Core Topic in our published list, Promoting healthful behaviors at the community-program and primary-care levels, was addressed in various practical detailed accounts of how successful real-world community chronic disease reduction clinics and teaching kitchens launched and evolved their work, but also in presentations about nuanced guidance of sustainable patient behavior change, sometimes drawing upon approaches like motivational interviewing, as in Meeting Patients Where They Are At: Setting Realistic Expectations about Lifestyle Change in Support of Mental and Physical Health.Finally, as in all P-POD Conferences, there were multiple thought-provoking presentations and discussions about the key Core Topic Health equity, vulnerable populations, and access disparities for care and nutritious-food, such as:**Diabetes in Historically Marginalized Communities, and the Use of Plant-based Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine to Reduce Health Disparities and Improve Health Outcomes**Utilization of Culturally Adapted Tools to Achieve Nutrition Equity and Improve Clinical Outcomes in Diabetes and Chronic Disease Care**Can Practitioners, Educators and Public Officials Work Together to Redesign Institutions in Support of Health Equity and Community Nutrition Advancement?Upon our founding, it was suggested that one of the greatest contributions our new nonprofit could make would be to offer practitioners educational content about chronic disease prevention at prices more affordable than is the norm for professional continuing education, and we have intended never to forget that, as we try to reach a broad spectrum of practitioners and students. We have also awarded 59 full need-based scholarships to our conferences from 2019 through 2024. Within the next couple of years, we will resume fundraising to replenish our dedicated scholarship fund that will soon be depletedThis report will close with the comments of one 2024 physician-attendee: "As for the conference, wow!!!! I can honestly say that this is the best and most informative conference I have ever been to (and Ive been to many conferences in my 10+ years in practice!). I have never met s
  Expenses $125,094

What it must file and when

IRS records say it files Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N. Its accounting year ends in December, so each return is due on the 15th day of the 5th month after that.

IRS record

EIN

47-1328220

Tax-exempt status

501(c)(3): Charitable, religious, educational or scientific organization

Foundation status

Publicly supported organization (509(a)(2))

Donations deductible (Pub 78)

Public charity, 50% deduction limit

Exempt since

2016

Accounting year ends

December

Files

Form 990 or 990-EZ

Category (NTEE)

Food, agriculture and nutrition (K40)

Assets (IRS master file)

$5,510

Income (IRS master file)

$102,232

Filing history

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 47-1328220).

Questions about PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC

What is the EIN of PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC?

The employer identification number (EIN) of PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC is 47-1328220.

Is PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC tax-exempt?

Yes. The IRS lists it as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3) since 2016.

Are donations to PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC tax-deductible?

Yes. It is listed in IRS Publication 78 (Public charity, 50% deduction limit).

Which annual return does PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC file?

Form 990 or 990-EZ. Based on its last return; a smaller organization may file the 990-N.

When is the next return of PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC 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 PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC 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 PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC?

The 990-N for 2016 names Bob LeRoy.

Who are the officers and directors of PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC?

The 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 lists 14 people; 0 received compensation from the organization.

How much revenue does PLANT-BASED PREVENTION OF DISEASE INC have?

On its 990-EZ for the year ended December 31, 2024 it reported revenue of $101,175, expenses of $134,028 and total assets of $5,510 at year end.

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