NATIONAL PAIN ADVOCACY CENTER

As filed

Subsection

03

NTEE code

G01

Classification

1200

Street

3645 N MILWAUKEE ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2025

• GENERAL PROGRAMS - OUR GENERAL PROGRAM CONSISTS OF EDUCATION AND AWARENESS, ADVOCACY AND CIVIC ENGAGEMENT, AND COALITION BUILDING. WE SEEK TO TRANSFORM HOW PAIN IS UNDERSTOOD AND TREATED. WE SERVE AS A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE LIVING WITH PAIN AND THEIR FAMILIES AND FOR RESEARCHERS, CLINICIANS, AND POLICYMAKERS. OUR EDUCATIONAL WORK FEATURES STORIES, STUDIES, AND OTHER KEY CONTENT. WE PUBLISH OPINION PIECES AND REGULARLY APPEAR IN THE MEDIA. WE EDUCATE CLINICIANS AND SPEAK REGULARLY AT MEETINGS HOSTED BY ORGANIZATIONS SUCH AS THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE, THE CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES, THE FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION, THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH, AND THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION. WE REGULARLY PARTICIPATE IN PAIN-RELATED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BOTH IN HELPING WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING AT THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH AND IN SERVING AS KEY ADVISORS ON STUDIES. ADVOCACY AND CIVIL ENGAGEMENT ARE ALSO CRITICAL TO ACHIEVING OUR MISSION OF ADVANCING THE HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH PAIN AND PROMOTING EFFECTIVE PAIN MANAGEMENT. WE HAVE FILED LEGAL BRIEFS IN U.S. SUPREME COURT, RESPONDED TO NOTICES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER, AND EDUCATED FEDERAL AND STATE POLICYMAKERS. OUR MEMBERS HAVE SERVED ON KEY ADVISORY COMMITTEES AT AGENCIES SUCH AS THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION AND THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH. WE ALSO WORK COLLABORATIVELY WITH LIKE-MINDED ORGANIZATIONS OPERATING IN THE PAIN AND PUBLIC HEALTH SPACES.

  Expenses $207,228

As filed on the 2025 return.

Officers and directors · 2025

As listed in Part VII of the 2025 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

• 2025

  Revenue

  $70,256

  Expenses

  $230,482

  Contributions

  $57,460

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2024

  Revenue

  $435,642

  Expenses

  $245,186

  Contributions

  $434,145

  Grants paid

  $397

• 2023

  Revenue

  $179,347

  Expenses

  $225,231

  Contributions

  $178,342

  Grants paid

  $0

• 2022

  Revenue

  $456,692

  Expenses

  $139,340

  Contributions

  $456,405

  Grants paid

  $0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

• 2021 · 990-EZ

  Revenue

  $56,947

  Expenses

  $23,604

  Assets (EOY)

  $42,592

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all.

Form 990-N e-Postcard, tax year 2020

Tax period

1 January 2020 to 31 December 2020

Principal officer

Kate Nicholson

Mailing address

3645 MilwaukeeDenver CO 80205

Website

www.nationalpain.org

As filed, from the IRS e-Postcard file of 9 November 2026. The IRS publishes only each organization's most recent postcard, so earlier years are not shown. A 990-N carries no financial detail. The postcard also gives the principal officer's address, which is not shown here.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

• BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY

  $60,000

  2023 · TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF NATIONAL PAIN ADVOCACY CENTER

• BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY

  $50,000

  2022 · TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF NATIONAL PAIN ADVOCACY CENTER

• BOREALIS PHILANTHROPY

  $50,000

  2024 · TO SUPPORT THE WORK OF NATIONAL PAIN ADVOCACY CENTER

• DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING

  $5,200

  2022 · HEALTH

• ADDICTION POLICY FORUM

  $0

  2024 · RESEARCH AND TRANSLATION OF THE POLICY FOR IDENTIFYING AND TREATMENT OF ADDICTIONS

Other IRS files