The Center to Advance Consumer Partnership Inc

Analysis

The Center to Advance Consumer Partnership Inc is a registered charity in United States, based in Arlington, MA. It received its IRS tax-exemption ruling in August 2025. Its declared purposes cover health care, which this site groups under health and saving lives. 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, The Center to Advance Consumer Partnership Inc reported income of $3.1m and spending of $3.4m, spending 110% of what it took in. Across the 4 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2023, income grew from $175k to $3.1m (+1685%), an average of +161% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2022, when income rose by 964%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 40,470 United States charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Center to Advance Consumer Partnership Inc sits at the 76th percentile: it is larger than about 76% of them. Against every charity in United States with reported income it ranks in the 89th percentile, and in the 88th percentile within MA. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include United Methodist Homes Foundation ($3.1m), Huron Clinic Foundation Inc ($3.1m) and Vermont Public Health Association Inc ($3.1m).

On its Form 990 for the period ending December 2023, revenue came from contributions and grants 14% and program service revenue 86% of the total. Other salaries and wages came to $1.7m. At year end it held assets of $7.9m against liabilities of $11.0m, net assets of -$3.2m.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.