Virginia · Nonprofit
National Capital Poison Center
National Capital Poison Center (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,830,520 to it, the largest being ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $4.7M
- Funders on record
- 21
- Grants received
- $7.8M
- Net assets
- $8.9M
What National Capital Poison Center does
Mission
The mission of National Capital Poison Center (NCPC) is to prevent poisonings, save lives, and limit injury from poisoning. In addition to saving lives, the Center decreases health care costs of poisoning cases.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
On its FY2024 return the organization reported a significant change in how it conducts a program.
See Part III, Line 4a for the description of changes made to the manner in which the Center conducts its programs.
Its own explanation, from Schedule O of that return (Part III, line 3).
From October 15, 1980 to March 31, 2025, the National Capital Poison Center ("the Center") provided traditional call-based poison control services for the Washington, DC metropolitan area. In late 2014, the Center also began to provide online poison control services for the entire US. Due to insufficient governmental funding, on March 31, 2025 the NCPC closed its call center and transitioned to become the first fully-automated, all-digital poison control center. See Schedule O for continuation
$4,980,795 spent$1,750 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $4,980,795.
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 2021 to 2022, from $14M to $11M (−25%).
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 42% · 2018 42% · 2019 49% · 2020 41% · 2021 41% · 2022 39% · 2023 57% · 2024 55% · 2025 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
64% of National Capital Poison Center’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. 7 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.
Board chair
Rick Adams
Board Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $944k → $1.0M.
4 of 21 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 1% 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 National Capital Poison Center’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
National Capital Poison Center leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 75% · 2019 94% · 2020 98% · 2021 98% · 2022 96% · 2023 96% — growing more concentrated.
“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
39% of National Capital Poison Center's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
98% of National Capital Poison Center's grant income comes from Virginia funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $46k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 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
National Capital Poison Center's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding National Capital Poison Center receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $50k on record.
- Grant$50k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like National Capital Poison Center
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
72%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 3 states
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- National Poison Center Foundation · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for National Capital Poison Center: 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 National Capital Poison Center?
- National Capital Poison Center (Virginia) receives grants from 21 organizations whose IRS filings report $7,830,520 to it, the largest being ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($7,000,000). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does National Capital Poison Center have?
- IRS filings report 21 organizations giving $7,830,520 in grants to National Capital Poison Center, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of National Capital Poison Center?
- ADAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $7,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like National Capital Poison Center find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. 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 21 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing