Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC
NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,708,862 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $12M
- Funders on record
- 19
- Grants received
- $13M
- Net assets
- $11M
What National Disability Institute Inc does
Mission
Ndi is dedicated to building a better economic future for people with disabilities and their families through financial education, asset development, public education, policy development training, technical assistance, and innovative collaborations with government, financial institutions, employers, and community organizations.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Pass thourgh programs:home and community based services (hcbs) innovation grants: stimulate independence promoting innovation -funder: maine office of aging and disability services (oads) (note, this is a federal cooperative agreement in which ndi serves as a contractor to the state). Overview: through this project the department is providing the public with american rescue plan (arp) funds to create innovative pilot projects in alignment with home and community based services (hcbs) goals. The maine office of aging and disability services (oads) engaged ndi to implement a $10 million "innovation grants" project on their behalf. This is a two-year project that will award grants of up to $500,000 to agencies that are interested in opportunities to pilot innovations in services for individuals served by medicaid waivers in maine. These projects will be opportunities to shape changes that are being made to their medicaid waivers, or home and community based services. Ndi was selected for this project on the basis of the hands-on technical assistance approach this agency takes in project implementation.maine office of aging and disability services - provider readiness grants - funder:…
$5,062,984 spent$2,965,313 earned by the program48% of program spendingFederal programs: able drrp: financial engagement as a gateway to community participation: a multi-level intervention study - funder: national institute on disability, independent living, and rehabilitation research (nidilrr); administration for community living (acl); u.s. Department of health and human services (hhs)(nidilrr). Overview: able drrp is a multi-level intervention study that will: a) serve 250 young adults, age 18-24, who are in receipt of virginia vocational rehabilitation services, receive ssi or ssdi, and are living in one of three targeted communities - through a control group (125 participants) and an intervention group (125 participants). B) provide each participating young adult in the intervention group with the following intervention activities: I. Targeted futures planning, ii. Financial education, iii. Able account opening and management assistance, iv. $100 in able account, and v. Financial coaching. C) survey each participating young adult in the intervention group to understand the impact of the intervention on their level of community participation and living. D) survey each participating young adult in the control group to understand their level of…
$2,258,825 spent$1,322,959 earned by the program22% of program spendingFinancial empowerment programs: disability inclusive financial counseling (difc) funder: wells fargo. Overview: the goal of this multi-year initiative is to promote financial equity for individuals with disabilities by training financial counselors to deliver more inclusive services by increasing their understanding of disability benefits and the unique financial challenges people with disabilities may face. The initiative also offers training and technical assistance to help organizations ensure their policies, processes and service delivery are disability inclusive. A key component of this initiative is to track financial outcomes achieved by clients with disabilities served by trained counselors.financial equity capacity building - funder: jp morgan chase. Overview: the goal of this multi-year initiative has been to build the capability of local organizations to address the financial inequity of people who live at the intersection of disability, race/ethnicity and poverty in 3 cities: detroit, houston, and pittsburgh. Ndi has carried out this work by implementing convenings and launching local coalitions integrated by disability and financial empowerment organizations. Ndi will…
$2,103,311 spent$1,231,877 earned by the program20% of program spendingEmployment programs:lead center - funder: department of labor, office of disability employment policy through a subcontract with social policy research associates. Overview: this grant continues the work of the national center on leadership for the employment and economic advancement of people with disabilities (lead). The lead center is a workforce innovation and opportunity act (wioa) policy development center. The services provided under this grant will support odep to continue and build upon the work of the previous lead wioa policy development contract, called the lead center, to work across the full range of workforce systems to develop policies and provide technical expertise that increases competitive integrated employment (cie) services, opportunities, and outcomes for individuals with disabilities. The lead center will focus its work across three priorities related to wioa: advancing economic self-sufficiency for people with disabilities, creating career pathways to cie as defined in wioa, and improving data reporting on disability through wioa programs.
$640,459 spent$375,107 earned by the program6% of program spendingOther :american dream employment network - funder: social security administration. Overview: aden is a national administrative employment network providing face- to-face employment services to ticket holders through a network of providers across the country called aden members. Aden provides supports to state and local workforce investment boards (wibs), community rehabilitation providers and other qualified and interested community partners across the country, by offering administrative solutions and ongoing training and technical assistance to its members.pathways to careers - funder: virginia department on aging and rehabilitation services (dars) (ndi is a subcontractor to concepts communications). Overview: the virginia office on aging and rehabilitative services has a federal grant which focuses on the inclusion of underserved populations in career pathway activity. Dars has engaged ndi for the purpose of supporting 'community academies' in project 'pilot' offices. Virginia has already invested heavily in irt training statewide with all service professionals but wishes to invest in strengthening the alignment with agencies and organizations connected with the underserved…
$410,509 spent$240,429 earned by the program4% of program spendingResearch programs:other economic empowerment, employment and research activities - funder: various. Throughout each calendar year, ndi completes activities that meet our mission but are not large enough to be classified as a project. These activities are typically completed over a short period of time and fulfill a specific set of tasks, deliverables or scope of work.
$25,012 spent$14,649 earned by the program0% of program spendingDevelopmental disabilities councilsfinancial wellness initiative - funder: illinois council on developmental disabilities. Overview: ndi-led training of disability service providers who will in turn train individuals with disabilities and their families on financial wellness strategies. Core strategies include training on improved utilization of public benefits, favorable tax provisions, social security work incentives and matched savings plans and financial education and coaching techniques.
$368 spent$216 earned by the program0% of program spending
The 7 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $10,501,468.
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 $4.4M to $10M (+138%).
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 51% · 2018 47% · 2019 34% · 2020 30% · 2021 29% · 2022 19% · 2023 26% · 2024 22%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
48% of NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 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
Thomas Foley
Executive director
Board chair
Michael Jensen
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020, and between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $483k → $6.1M.
4 of 19 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 32% 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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE 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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 67%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
34% 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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 56% · 2019 59% · 2020 48% · 2021 57% · 2022 50% · 2023 66% — 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
63% of NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% 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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.1M 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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,064 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,064 education nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government funding NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $24.4M on record — $24.1M federal, $344k state.
- Department of Education$10.0M
- Department of Labor$9.1M
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.5M
- Small Business Administration$2.5M
- MA$214k
- NJ$125k
- OR$5k
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 DISABILITY INSTITUTE 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
74%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC?
- NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 19 organizations whose IRS filings report $12,708,862 to it, the largest being The Chicago Community Trust ($4,000,000). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC have?
- IRS filings report 19 organizations giving $12,708,862 in grants to NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE INC?
- The Chicago Community Trust is the largest funder on record, with $4,000,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL DISABILITY INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), 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