Virginia · Nonprofit
NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION
NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $982k
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $5k
- Net assets
- $1.2M
What National Patient Advocate Foundation does
Mission
The National Patient Advocate Foundation, the advocacy affiliate of the patient advocate foundation, represents the patient voice, both the powerful stories of individuals and the collective needs of the community. Our programs are developed to reflect the experiences and overcome the barriers that paf patients who are living with chronic, debilitating or life-threatening illness and their caregivers encounter in accessing affordable, quality health care. Npaf is a thought leader in developing policies that protect patients and caregivers from lack of transparency, medical debt and equitable access to care and services at key points during their illness.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Npaf leads a volunteer grassroots network in activities to advance the organization's policy priorities as guided by board-approved principles that are updated annually. The complement of principles translates to various advocacy opportunities for minimizing burdens experienced by patients and caregivers so they can maintain medical, mental/behavioral and financial health. Our agenda targets hardships experienced by all paitents regardless of where they live, their diagnosis, race, gender, education or income level. Among other priorities, npaf focuses on opportunities to advance innovative policies establishing "needs navigation" as a standard part of care. These services must be reliably available in all settings to ease patients' healthcare costs concerns that are consequences of complex and chronic illnesses. Npaf also partners with paf's patient insight institute on producing patient insight congress. The conference agenda offers a unique approach for generating actionable research ideas and academic-partnered projects, including evidence supporting npaf's healthcare policy agenda. The program brings representative cohorts of patients, caregivers and grassroots volunteers to…
$606,222 spent76% of program spendingNpaf policy consortium features a forum for dynamic dialogue that invites members, along with patients, caregivers and community partners to explore together the impact and implications of serious illnesses on peoples' lives. Through guarterly virtual patient-driven listening sessions, member supporters get a seat at the table to learn from the real-world lived experiences of patients, caregivers, service providers and community partners. Policy consortium provides an interactive learning community for generating actionalble research ideas, pragmatic policy solutions, and advocacy initiatives to improve healthcare access, affordability and quality. Members from across therapeutic areas are welcome to this forum.
$194,237 spent$292,500 earned by the program24% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $800,459.
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 $1.3M to $1.7M (+35%).
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.
63% of NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
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.
Chief executive
Dr Alan J Balch Phd
Chief executive officer
Board chair
Otis Maynard Esq
Board president
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2023 and FY2024 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the IRS filings of NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION’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.
Where its funders are
NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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 PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 7,883 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 7,883 health nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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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
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Patient Advocate Foundation · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION: 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 PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $5,000 to it, the largest being NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC ($5,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $5,000 in grants to NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION.
- Who is the largest funder of NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION?
- NATIONAL COALITION FOR HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE INC is the largest funder on record, with $5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATIONAL PATIENT ADVOCATE FOUNDATION 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 1 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