New York · Nonprofit
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,791,349 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ($3,179,817). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.3M
- Funders on record
- 61
- Grants received
- $9.8M
- Net assets
- $5.0M
What Medicare Rights Center Inc does
Mission
The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives. Since 1989, weve been helping people with Medicare understand their rights and benefits, navigate the Medicare system, and secure the quality health care they deserve. We strive to be the most reliable source of independent, unbiased Medicare information in the United States.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
HELPLINES: Medicare Rights' expert staff and volunteers answered more than 29,700 questions on its multilingual national helpline for people with Medicare, their families, and the professionals serving them. As part of this work, Medicare Rights provided over 9,903 counseling sessions devoted to appeals and other Medicare-related legal issues.
$2,091,379 spent$793,000 earned by the program45% of program spendingEDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: Medicare Rights' expert print and online resources and trainings, provided through Medicare Interactive (www.medicareinteractive.org), answered 2.1 million Medicare questions and empowered professionals across the country to better serve their own older clients and those with disabilities. As part of this work, Medicare Rights offers its training and certification services to Medicare counselors nationally through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) Technical Assistance Center and the Senior Medicare Patrol Resource Center.
$1,403,086 spent$822,594 earned by the program30% of program spendingPolicy: Medicare Rights carried the stories of the clients it serves to meetings of policymakers and other stakeholders in New York and Washington, DC., and media placements totaled 1,596. Medicare Rights also led 249 presentations and trainings to translate Medicare policy into consumer-friendly language and circulated Medicare newsletters and other communications to a list of more than 124,574 readers.
$566,540 spent12% of program spendingENROLLMENT SERVICES: Medicare Rights submitted more than 2,186 Medicare cost-saving benefit applications for its clients, saving enrolled individuals $11.5 million in out-of-pocket health care costs and increasing their access to needed care and medicines.
$544,226 spent$694,649 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,605,231.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $4.7M to $6.2M (+33%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 43% · 2019 40% · 2020 40% · 2021 54% · 2022 45% · 2023 48% · 2024 34% · 2025 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $440k → $1.8M.
9 of 61 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 8% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 61 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 32% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
70% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 26% · 2019 19% · 2020 29% · 2021 32% · 2022 41% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
47% of MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
64% of MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC's grant income comes from New York funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $776k arriving through sponsors registered in 8 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC is better cushioned than half of the 5,002 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New York
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
86%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC?
- MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC (New York) receives grants from 61 organizations whose IRS filings report $9,791,349 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ($3,179,817). 46 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC have?
- IRS filings report 61 organizations giving $9,791,349 in grants to MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC, 46 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC?
- COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK is the largest funder on record, with $3,179,817 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICARE RIGHTS CENTER INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 61 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing