Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC
NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,135,618 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($2,147,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $5.0M
- Funders on record
- 32
- Grants received
- $4.1M
- Net assets
- $7.3M
What National Consumers League Inc does
Mission
Ncl protects and promotes social and economic justice for consumers and workers in the united states and abroad by providing government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer perspective.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Public education and food policy - ncl educates the public about a variety of consumer issues through work with federal agencies and through forums, the media, publications, and other outreach. The league is committed to a food policy that ensures a safe, nutritious, and abundant food supply. The league believes consumers should have access to food at reasonable prices, and no person should go hungry or suffer malnutrition. The league supports a system for monitoring and improving the nutritional status of the united states of america, in particular programs that aid low-income families and school children.
$1,761,079 spent36% of program spendingConsumer health education - ncl provides government, businesses, and other organizations with the consumer perspective on health concerns including medication safety. The league organized a groundbreaking, national multi-media campaign to improve public health by raising consumer awareness of the importance of good medication adherence.
$1,411,750 spent29% of program spendingLifesmarts - lifesmarts is an educational program that develops the consumer and marketplace skills of teenagers and promotes this knowledge through competitions run in a game show style, open to all teens in the united states of america.
$880,659 spentof which $37,000 as grants18% of program spendingFraud center - the league organizes an alliance against fraud in telemarketing and across the internet. The alliance includes over seventy government, businesses, union, and consumer organizations to educate the public.
$675,577 spent14% of program spendingFair labor - the league conducts major projects on child labor, wage theft, and paid sick leave to alert the public concerning rights and responsibilities regarding the fair labor standards act as well as international codes of conduct and labor standards.
$188,776 spent4% of program spending
The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $4,917,841.
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 $6.8M to $8.8M (+30%).
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 0% · 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% 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
Sally Greenberg
Chief executive officer
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 13 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose $243k → $487k.
6 of 32 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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
NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
94% 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 CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 24% · 2019 35% · 2020 54% · 2021 75% · 2022 48% · 2023 67% — 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 CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% 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
81% of NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $985k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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 CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC is better cushioned than half of the 543 public benefit nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2k on record.
- NJ$2k
- VT$37
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 CONSUMERS LEAGUE 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 Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
82% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 5 states
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE 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 NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC?
- NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 32 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,135,618 to it, the largest being PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA ($2,147,500). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC have?
- IRS filings report 32 organizations giving $4,135,618 in grants to NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC?
- PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $2,147,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC 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.
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 32 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