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NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE

NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,757 to it, the largest being AARP FOUNDATION ($415,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$1.4M
Funders on record
13
Grants received
$780k
Net assets
$985k
7/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%
01What it does

What Nccnhr Dba the National Consumer Voice for Quality Long-Term Care does

Mission

The purpose of nccnhr is to improve long-term care system and quality of life for consumers of long-term care; to provide resources and information to members and the general public; to develop and implement training; and to study and report on long-term issues.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Communications and member services- through publications, public appearances, e-mails & mail, media outreach, and its website, nccnhr provides information, technical assistance, and information about quality care in long-term care to consumers and their family members, advocates, professionals in the field, providers, researchers, and policymakers.

    $126,759 spent$32,451 earned by the program
    9% of program spending
  2. National ombudsman resource center (norc)- funded by the administration on aging, the norc provides technical assistance, training, and resources to the 53 state and more than one thousand local long-term care ombudsmen who assist residents with ensuring quality care. We sponsor a website, a national conference, and numerous teleconference trainings every year, in response to the expressed needs of the ombudsman community and the administration on aging.

    $609,917 spentof which $25,000 as grants
    41% of program spending
  3. Annual meetings - nccnhr's annual meeting and conference brings together the community of advocates and professionals who are committed to improving care in nursing homes and other long-term care settings.due to covid-19 the organization decided to hold its annual meeting in a virtual format. The virtual setting of the annual meeting has allowed nccnhr to bring together a much larger number of participants than in previous years.

    $243,445 spent$302,708 earned by the program
    16% of program spending
  4. Public policy-since its founding in 1975, nccnhr has been a key contributor to virtually every important improvement in nursing-home care policy and practice, notably the first comprehensive federal standards for quality care and residents' rights contained in the 1987 nursing home reform act. Nccnhr also addresses assisted living and community based long-term care policy. Nccnhr ensures the consumer interest is represented as policy is considered in congress, federal agencies, and courts as well as state government, and that the media are informed as well as appropriate.

    $312,384 spent
    21% of program spending
  5. Consumer and family support-the purpose is to provide information and referral, technical assistance, support, and training to residents, family members, citizen advocates, resident/family councils, and others waiting to improve the long term care system.

    $188,574 spent$53,903 earned by the program
    13% of program spending

The 5 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,481,079.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($1.0M) Expenses 100 ($1.0M) Net assets 100 ($128k)2018 Revenue 102 ($1.0M) Expenses 96 ($990k) Net assets 129 ($165k)2019 Revenue 149 ($1.5M) Expenses 108 ($1.1M) Net assets 428 ($549k)2020 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 109 ($1.1M) Net assets 518 ($664k)2021 Revenue 148 ($1.5M) Expenses 118 ($1.2M) Net assets 731 ($936k)2022 Revenue 123 ($1.2M) Expenses 117 ($1.2M) Net assets 754 ($966k)2023 Revenue 145 ($1.5M) Expenses 120 ($1.2M) Net assets 931 ($1.2M)2024 Revenue 143 ($1.4M) Expenses 143 ($1.5M) Net assets 897 ($1.1M)2025 Revenue 142 ($1.4M) Expenses 154 ($1.6M) Net assets 769 ($985k)
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Revenue (142)Expenses (154)Net assets (769)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2018 to 2019, from $199k to $609k (+206%).

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$609k
$745k
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 50% · 2018 52% · 2019 39% · 2020 49% · 2021 38% · 2022 46% · 2023 33% · 2024 44% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 8,611 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$27k
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$37k
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$383k
’19
$115k
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$273k
’21
$30k
’22
$227k
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−$44k
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−$164k
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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

Lori Smetanka

Executive director

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

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Listed121314121614151216
Joined·+4+2+4+5+0+3+0+6
No longer listed·31612232
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income fell $103k → $56k.

6 of 13 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 16% 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 NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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

NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 76%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

97% 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 NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE.

53%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 50% · 2019 95% · 2020 57% · 2021 48% · 2022 100% · 2023 36% — 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

40% of NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

77% of NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE's grant income comes from Washington, D.C. funders.

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In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Washington, D.C. out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $126k 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE is better cushioned than half of the 4,665 health nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−12% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $5.1M on record — $5.1M federal, $43k state.

Federal$5.1M
grants $5.1Mcontracts $0
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  • Department of Health and Human Services$5.1M
State$43k
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  • NJ$41k
  • FL$2k

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 NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 5%Fundraising 2%

Governance

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board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

95%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 35 states

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Questions and answers

Who funds NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE?
NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $779,757 to it, the largest being AARP FOUNDATION ($415,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE have?
IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $779,757 in grants to NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE?
AARP FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $415,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like NCCNHR DBA THE NATIONAL CONSUMER VOICE FOR QUALITY LONG-TERM CARE 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 13 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