Massachusetts · Nonprofit
Needymeds Inc
Needymeds Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,898 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($36,756). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.5M
- Funders on record
- 7
- Grants received
- $85k
- Net assets
- $517k
What Needymeds Inc does
Mission
Needymeds educates and empowers those seeking affordable healthcare.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
Needymeds, inc,provides information that helps individuals find assistance with medicine and healthcare costs. The website is a comprehensive, current and easily accessible resources on programs including but not limided to: pharmaceutical patient assistance programs, programs that assist based on diagnosis; free/low cost/sliding scale clinics; medication discount coupons; camps, scholarships and retreats based on diagnosis;and state and federal programs. Access to all the information is free and anonymous. Needymeds, inc. Also offers a free drug discount card that provides savings of up to 80% on the cash price of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications and medical supplies written as a prescription and pet prescription drugs purchased at the pharmacy. Needymeds endeavors to educate advocates and the general public about all of the potential savings available,medication adherence and patient empowerment.
$1,419,322 spent$1,432,572 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,419,322.
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 2017 to 2018, from $1.9M to $1.1M (−40%).
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: 2021 11% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of Needymeds Inc’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (51% 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.
Board chair
Frederick Cowan
Chair/director
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell $37k → $9k.
4 of 7 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 90% 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 Needymeds 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
Needymeds Inc leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 87%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Needymeds Inc.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 62% · 2020 91% · 2021 89% · 2022 59% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
90% of Needymeds Inc's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $9k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Massachusetts, across 3 states.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $76k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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
Needymeds Inc's revenue fell 34% between 2017 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,665 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Government funding Needymeds Inc receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $3k on record.
- FL$3k
- OK$38
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 Needymeds 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 Massachusetts
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
54%
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 Needymeds 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 Needymeds Inc?
- Needymeds Inc (Massachusetts) receives grants from 7 organizations whose IRS filings report $84,898 to it, the largest being NETWORK FOR GOOD ($36,756). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 90% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Needymeds Inc have?
- IRS filings report 7 organizations giving $84,898 in grants to Needymeds Inc, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Needymeds Inc?
- NETWORK FOR GOOD is the largest funder on record, with $36,756 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Needymeds Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. 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 7 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