Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,782,831 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($5,644,407). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $111M
- Funders on record
- 22
- Grants received
- $21M
- Net assets
- $134M
What National Committee for Quality Assurance does
Mission
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. Better choices. Better health.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Accreditation, certification or recognition of managed care organizations, accountable care organizations, managed behavioral healthcare organizations, credentials verification organizations, physician organizations, individual physicians, hedis compliance auditors, survey and software vendors and preferred provider organizations. Performance measurement - ncqa develops and maintains the principal health care performance measurement tool for health plans and physicians, the health care effectiveness data and information set (hedis). Ncqa works on a contract basis with public and private organizations to develop, manage, execute, or consult on projects. Ncqa also develops and delivers education conferences, publications, information products and digital content services.
$70,608,158 spent$65,556,865 earned by the program88% of program spendingNcqa is responding to the rapidly changing health care marketplace by developing new programs and services that measures performance across the delivery system.
$9,436,492 spent$34,907,651 earned by the program12% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $80,044,650.
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 2019 to 2020, from $106M to $133M (+26%).
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: 2019 17% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 21% · 2023 20% · 2024 22% · 2025 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
7% of NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Margaret E O'Kane
President & CEO (thru 12/2025)
Board chair
John Glaser Phd
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell $2.3M → $1.3M.
3 of 22 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 4% 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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE’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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% 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
30% 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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 67% · 2019 33% · 2020 36% · 2021 31% · 2022 41% · 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
25% of NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 8 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $799k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,256 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,256 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $116.2M on record — $115.8M federal, $390k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$114.0M
- Office of Personnel Management$988k
- Department of Defense$510k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$280k
- MA$327k
- CT$41k
- VT$15k
- DE$7k
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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE
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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE: 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 COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE?
- NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 22 organizations whose IRS filings report $20,782,831 to it, the largest being GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION ($5,644,407). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE have?
- IRS filings report 22 organizations giving $20,782,831 in grants to NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE?
- GORDON E AND BETTY I MOORE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,644,407 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. 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 22 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