National Council on Independent Living

Analysis

National Council on Independent Living is a registered charity in United States, based in Washington, DC. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in January 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover human services, which this site groups under poverty relief. The IRS classifies it as a publicly supported organisation (gross receipts test) under section 501(c)(3), and contributions to it are listed as tax-deductible.

In the financial year ending December 2023, National Council on Independent Living reported income of $1.5m and spending of $1.6m, spending 107% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2019 to December 2023, income fell from $1.8m to $1.5m (-20%), an average of -5.5% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2020, when income rose by 31%. Over the whole period it spent 102% of the income it received.

Among 62,758 United States charities whose main cause is poverty relief and that reported income, National Council on Independent Living sits at the 80th percentile: it is larger than about 80% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 83rd percentile, and in the 61st percentile within DC. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Nistar ($1.5m), Hark-Als Inc ($1.5m) and Corrective Care Ministry ($1.5m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 48% and program service revenue 49% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $518k. At year end it held assets of $869k against liabilities of $248k, net assets of $621k. It reported 10 employees.