Maryland · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC
NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,018,488 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($2,799,596). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $47M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $6.0M
- Net assets
- $20M
What National Center on Institutions and Alternatives Inc does
Mission
Ncia is dedicated to empowering people who face significant life challenges. With a commitment to unconditional support and respect for human dignity, ncia serves a diverse population, including people with intellectual, developmental and emotional disabilities, people re-entering society after incarceration, at-risk youth, and adults with complex needs.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Ncia's community living homes provides housing for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, helping them lead full and active lives in their community. Ncia has residential homes throughout baltimore county, baltimore city, and prince george's county, where residents can choose to live alone or with roommates. Staff assist residents in making community connections, developing independent living skills, and promoting a socially active lifestyle. Support is tailored to each person's individualized needs, including case management, clinical, and nursing support, empowering them to live more independently and achieve greater self-sufficiency.
$18,846,549 spent$27,015,910 earned by the program57% of program spendingNcia's day program provides community- and facility-based programming for adults with disabilities, both intellectual and developmental. Participants can choose from an array of programming, including job development and employment training, career discovery, volunteerism, recreational activities, and community engagement.
$3,340,534 spent$6,432,867 earned by the program10% of program spendingNcia's youth in transition school (yit) is a nonpublic, full-day special education program for students ages 11-21 with significant barriers such as autism, emotional disabilities, and intellectual disabilities. Approved by the maryland state department of education as a type I school, yit offers academic instruction, vocational experiences, clinical services, and behavior support for students pursuing a high school diploma or certificate of completion. The yit provides individualized care to address students' physical, psychological, intellectual, and social needs, helping them overcome behavior, clinical, and learning difficulties and often achieve academic success for the first time.
$4,237,705 spent$4,834,367 earned by the program13% of program spendingNcia's business service department focuses on obtaining commercial, state and federal contracts to employ people with disabilities. Individuals are provided with the necessary supports to assist them in identifying career and employment interests and finding and keeping a job. Business services has an integrated workforce that includes almost 62 people with disabilities.
$6,856,562 spentof which $56,864 as grants$4,615,087 earned by the program21% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $33,281,350.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $18M to $26M (+50%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 6% · 2021 15% · 2022 6% · 2023 3% · 2024 3% · 2025 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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.
Board chair
Herbert Hoelter
Co-founder/chairman until 5/2/24
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 9 funders, grant income rose $5k → $1.6M.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 3% 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 CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC’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 CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
43% 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 NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 55% · 2019 57% · 2020 85% · 2021 66% · 2022 33% · 2023 40% — 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
30% of NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 74% 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
NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Maryland, across 7 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $153k 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.
Government funding NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.3M on record — $836k federal, $9.5M state.
- Department of Justice$753k
- Department of Homeland Security$83k
- Grant$9.5M
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 CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES 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 Maryland
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 2 states
Part of a family of 5 related entities
- Ncia Saq LLC · disregarded
- 7130 Rutherford Road LLC · disregarded
- 7205 Rutherford Road LLC · disregarded
- Ncia Property Holdings LLC · disregarded
- Ncia Foundation Inc · exempt
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC?
- NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC (Maryland) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,018,488 to it, the largest being TRUIST FOUNDATION INC ($2,799,596). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $6,018,488 in grants to NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC?
- TRUIST FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $2,799,596 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CENTER ON INSTITUTIONS AND ALTERNATIVES INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Maryland. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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 19 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