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Form 990 for tax year 2024

Filed by NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR ADOPTION.

Totals

Total revenue
$1,709,179
Total expenses
$1,527,685
Contributions and grants received
$1,183,373
Grants paid
$117,930
Program service revenue
$478,611
Investment income
$45,353
Other revenue
$1,842
Total assets, end of year
$2,556,294
Total liabilities, end of year
$393,425
Net assets or fund balances, end of year
$2,162,869
Program services expenses (Part IX)
$1,098,300
Management and general expenses
$248,788
Fundraising expenses
$180,597
Program service expenses (Part III)
$1,098,300

Program services were 71.9% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

Line items

Every line the filer filed in Parts VIII, IX and X, as filed and in filed order. Blank columns are left out, and the lines are not forced to add up to the totals above.

Revenue

Part VIII, the statement of revenue.

  • 1a · Federated campaigns

    $6,890

  • 1e · Government grants (contributions)

    $324,160

  • 1f · All other contributions, gifts and grants

    $852,323

  • 1g · Noncash contributions included above

    $11,400

  • 2a · Program service revenue: Conference Income

    total $310,723 · related or exempt $207,047 · excluded $103,676

  • 2b · Program service revenue: Membership Dues

    total $137,008 · related or exempt $137,008

  • 2c · Program service revenue: Training Revenue

    total $30,880 · related or exempt $30,880

  • 3 · Investment income

    total $45,353 · excluded $45,353

  • 11a · Other revenue: Cash Back Rewards

    total $1,472 · related or exempt $1,472

  • 11b · Other revenue: Other Income

    total $370 · related or exempt $370

  • 11e · Other revenue, total

    $1,842

Functional expenses

Part IX, the statement of functional expenses.

  • 1 · Grants to domestic organizations and governments

    total $117,930 · program services $117,930

  • 5 · Compensation of officers, directors and key employees

    total $197,806 · program services $152,393 · management and general $27,140 · fundraising $18,273

  • 7 · Other salaries and wages

    total $509,825 · program services $396,399 · management and general $67,124 · fundraising $46,302

  • 8 · Pension plan contributions

    total $9,122 · program services $6,914 · management and general $1,348 · fundraising $860

  • 9 · Other employee benefits

    total $55,299 · program services $41,042 · management and general $8,802 · fundraising $5,455

  • 10 · Payroll taxes

    total $50,946 · program services $40,368 · management and general $6,752 · fundraising $3,826

  • 11c · Fees: accounting

    total $48,667 · management and general $48,667

  • 11g · Fees: other

    total $131,941 · program services $39,260 · management and general $2,552 · fundraising $90,129

  • 12 · Advertising and promotion

    total $54,513 · program services $50,439 · management and general $3,325 · fundraising $749

  • 13 · Office expenses

    total $49,277 · program services $27,379 · management and general $15,278 · fundraising $6,620

  • 14 · Information technology

    total $63,545 · program services $45,925 · management and general $12,595 · fundraising $5,025

  • 16 · Occupancy

    total $2,879 · management and general $2,879

  • 17 · Travel

    total $42,835 · program services $36,890 · management and general $4,708 · fundraising $1,237

  • 19 · Conferences, conventions and meetings

    total $136,866 · program services $132,683 · management and general $2,344 · fundraising $1,839

  • 22 · Depreciation, depletion and amortization

    total $15,038 · management and general $15,038

  • 23 · Insurance

    total $12,658 · management and general $12,658

  • 24a · Other expenses: Fees, licenses, and tax

    total $17,368 · program services $90 · management and general $17,278

  • 24b · Other expenses: Dues and Subscriptions

    total $481 · program services $420 · management and general $61

  • 24e · All other expenses

    total $10,689 · program services $10,168 · management and general $239 · fundraising $282

Balance sheet

Part X, book values.

  • 1 · Cash, non-interest-bearing

    beginning of year $86,744 · end of year $18,168

  • 2 · Savings and temporary cash investments

    beginning of year $1,059,293 · end of year $1,221,128

  • 3 · Pledges and grants receivable

    beginning of year $25,000 · end of year $189,909

  • 4 · Accounts receivable

    beginning of year $4,778 · end of year $2,600

  • 9 · Prepaid expenses and deferred charges

    beginning of year $26,456 · end of year $23,608

  • 10a · Land, buildings and equipment: cost or other basis

    $1,365,999

  • 10b · Land, buildings and equipment: accumulated depreciation

    $265,118

  • 10c · Land, buildings and equipment, net

    beginning of year $1,115,919 · end of year $1,100,881

  • 15 · Other assets

    beginning of year $3,820 · end of year $0

  • 17 · Accounts payable and accrued expenses

    beginning of year $48,147 · end of year $93,395

  • 19 · Deferred revenue

    beginning of year $288,668 · end of year $300,030

  • 25 · Other liabilities

    beginning of year $3,820 · end of year $0

  • 27 · Net assets without donor restrictions

    beginning of year $1,882,328 · end of year $1,773,536

  • 28 · Net assets with donor restrictions

    beginning of year $99,047 · end of year $389,333

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

Passionately committed to the belief that every child deserves to thrive in a nurturing, permanent family. National Council for Adoption's mission is to meet the diverse needs of children, expectant parents, birth parents, adopted individuals, adoptive families, and all those touched by adoption through global advocacy, education, research, legislative action, and collaboration.

Activities or mission (Part I)

Research, advocacy, awareness, and education for everyone impacted by adoption committed to the belief that every child deserves to thrive in a nurturing, permanent family. National Council for Adoption's mission is to meet the diverse needs of children, expectant parents, birth parents, adopted individuals, adoptive families, and all those touched by adoption through global advocacy, education, research, legislative action, and collaboration.

  • Conference - NCFA through its annual conference offers continuing education and high-caliber training to professionals from the adoption, social work, and child welfare communities who all share a common commitment to helping children thrive in nurturing, permanent families. The annual conference is an opportunity to highlight NCFA's research projects and findings done in cooperation with adoption researchers across the country.

    Expenses $284,616 · Revenue $310,273

  • Adoption-Sensitive Clinical Care project - This grant program is designed to help hospital-based staff understand and support the complex needs of expectant parents facing unintended pregnancies as well as those in the process of making an adoption plan for their child. With the guidance of a national advisory committee and the oversight of the federal Children's Bureau, the project team has updated and delivered the Understanding Infant Adoption curriculum online in the first of four different training lengths, as well as developed recommendations for three shorter training lengths, all of which will confer continuing medical education and social work continuing education credits for those who complete the training. The project team has updated and received federal approval to deliver six supplemental deep-dives into adoption-related topics and drafted two new supplemental modules. Data is being collected throughout the project to measure its effectiveness.

    Expenses $198,451 · Grants $117,930

  • Education and communication - NCFA offers free and low-cost webinars to expectant and current adoptive parents, adoption professionals, and other interested parties, training more than 3,000 people each year. NCFA also carries out communications campaigns to help the public better understand adoption and the needs of adoption families, communicating through national, regional, local, and special-interest media. NCFA provides social work CE through webinars and our conference, equipping social workers with high-quality, adoption-competent material. NCFA's e-publication of topical articles, the adoption advocate, offers critical information on relevant topics for those connected to adoption.

    Expenses $146,008 · Revenue $30,880

  • Various other programs including: Research, Legislative Action, National Training and Development Curriculum, and General Programs.

    Expenses $409,289 · Revenue $138,850

  • Constituent Services- NCFA serves our member adoption agencies and attorneys, with education, networking, and advocacy resources. We participated in meetings with congressional staff, federal government personnel, think-tanks, institutions of higher learning, and others in the education and child welfare-oriented community.

    Expenses $59,936

As filed on the 2024 return. The filer continues this part on Schedule O, which is not shown here.

Listed in Part VII

  • Andrea T Vavonese

    Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Kyle Clark

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Jane Castanias

    Chair-Elect

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Eric Curtis

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Lisa Sinclair

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Yekaterina Kate Trambitskaya

    Vice-Chair

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Renee Alexander

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ginger Cooch

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Joseph Firschein

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Michele Jackson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Dana Johnson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Celeste Liversidge

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Mark Melson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Evamarie Pisani

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • William Rosen

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Rebecca Spicer

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Pamela Stevenson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Steven Sunday

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ashley Wilson

    Board Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ryan Hanlon

    President & CEO

    Total calculated
    $194,111
    From this org
    $158,221
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $35,890
    Hours/week
    40

    Schedule J breakdown matched by us

    Base
    $156,317
    Bonus
    $0
    Other
    $1,904
    Deferred
    $3,167
    Nontaxable benefits
    $32,723
    Filer's total
    $194,111

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us.

Schedule J

Answered yes

  • 3 · Approval by the board or compensation committee

Answered no

  • 4a · Severance or change-of-control payment
  • 4b · Supplemental nonqualified retirement plan
  • 4c · Equity-based compensation arrangement
  • 5a · Pay contingent on this organization's revenues
  • 5b · Pay contingent on a related organization's revenues
  • 6a · Pay contingent on this organization's net earnings
  • 6b · Pay contingent on a related organization's net earnings
  • 7 · Other non-fixed payments
  • 8 · Paid under the initial-contract exception

Part I's answers as filed. A line not listed was left unanswered; on lines 1a and 3 that means the box was not checked.

Grants on this return

  • Spaulding for Children

    $68,585

    SubAward: Hospital-Based Adoption Sensitive Care Training

  • University of Washington

    $38,045

    SubAward: Hospital-Based Adoption Sensitive Care Training

  • The Adoption and Foster Care Clinic

    $11,300

    SubAward: Hospital-Based Adoption Sensitive Care Training

Provenance

Return type
form_990
Tax year
2024
Filed
17 October 2025
IRS schema version
2024v5.2
Source object
202542909349300049

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