Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE
SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,628 to it, the largest being THE SCAN FOUNDATION ($33,228). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.9M
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $64k
- Net assets
- $1.5M
What Special Needs Plan Alliance does
Mission
To improve the health and well-being of individuals living with significant, complex needs through specialized managed care.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Legal, policy and program consulting - the alliance meets regularly with cms on specific regulatory issues. The alliance reviews all proposed rules and guidance, and prepares summaries for members and comment letters to agencies. The alliance also occasionally uses its legal consultant to interpret some of the legal constraints to regulatory authority in its comment letters. The alliance also addresses individual member concerns and may refer the issue to its legal consultant for recommendations. The alliance has 5 regularly recurring standing meetings with members where it reviews a variety of policies and member questions that are then uses as a framework for the alliance's follow-up to the administration and to members of congress.
Lobbying - the alliance works on initiatives to advance risk-adjusted payments for high-risk populations, medicare/medicaid integration, and to improve performance measurement to reflect populations.
Fall leadership meeting and spring meeting members-only round table - the alliance hosts two 1.5 day meetings per year. The spring meeting is for members only and focuses primarily on snp policies and rule-making. The alliance holds in-depth discussions regarding specific regulations and has open discussions with members on their challenges and strategies to address these. The fall meeting is open to both members and non-members. The fall meeting generally addresses broader topics - again focusing on policies and operations for snps and medicare-medicaid plans. Representatives from centers for medicare and medicaid services ("cms") are invited to both meetings, and both meetings include education sessions addressing strategies to better serve high risk and vulnerable populations.
Grants & projects - the alliance contracts to work with organizations and government entities disseminating information on consumer and provider education related to integrated care.
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense.
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 2020 to 2021, from $921k to $1.3M (+43%).
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.
0% of SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE’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. 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
Michael Cheek
President and CEO
Board chair
Eve Gleb
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2019: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell $33k → $30k.
From the IRS filings of SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE’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
SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% 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 SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 100% — broadly stable.
“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
SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 2 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
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
SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE is better cushioned than half of the 8,121 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 8,121 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE
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.
Governance
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE: 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 SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE?
- SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $63,628 to it, the largest being THE SCAN FOUNDATION ($33,228). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $63,628 in grants to SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE.
- Who is the largest funder of SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE?
- THE SCAN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $33,228 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SPECIAL NEEDS PLAN ALLIANCE 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.
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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 2 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