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THE ARC OF NORTHERN VIRGINIA

EIN 54-0675506 FAIRFAX, VA

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Revenue 2024
$3,657,812
Expenses 2024
$2,884,105

Program services were 78.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
Classification
1200
Street
3060 WILLIAMS DRIVE

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 · 2024

Mission

The Arc of Northern Virginia promotes and protects the human rights of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and actively supports their full inclusion and participation in the community throughout their lifetimes.

Activities or mission (Part I)

To help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities to have a life like yours.

  • Advocacy and Information and Referral: The Arc provides advocacy and information and referral services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families. The Arc advocates at the state and local levels to ensure quality community-based services, including housing and employment programs, and expand laws and policies that protect civil rights. The Arc also provides information and referral services for families by phone, email, website, and in person. (Continued on Schedule O) In addition, The Arc helps youth and families with the transition from school to adult life in the community by offering access to professionals at workshops, seminars, and webinars, including the transition series on a wide variety of topics. The Arc also trains self-advocates in advocacy and public speaking skills through a "life like yours" toastmasters and people first programs. The Arc's resource program, transition points (providing opportunities, information, networking, and transition support), is a comprehensive program to help families with realistic, actionable information with which they can make a wide range of decisions over the life span of their loved one with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Transition points focus on the following key decision points: receiving a diagnosis and having a child enter an early intervention program, starting school and navigating special education and related services, transitioning out of the school system, finding a place to live outside the caregiver's home, entering the world of work and employment, and aging with a disability and aging of the caregiver. The Arc also provides personalized online curriculums and technology to enable independent living, which provides support to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to maximize their independence. The Arc's curriculums can be used as virtual travel trainers, life skill teachers, and virtual job coaches to help individuals live, travel, and work more independently. The Arc's curriculums also expand supports for disability service provider partner organizations through the use of innovative technology.

    Expenses $877,088 · Grants $65,751 · Revenue $1,398,692

  • Guardianship and Case Management/Support Coordination: The Arc provides case management and support coordination services for individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in the Northern Virginia area. The Arc contracts with the following community service boards: Fairfax Falls Church, Alexandria, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, and Rappahannock-Rapidan. The Arc coordinates services in the community through the Virginia Medicaid developmental disabilities waiver program. The Arc also educates families on how to be successful while navigating complicated systems of care. (Continued on Schedule O)In addition, The Arc provides decision making services and care oversight for those in need through the Virginia guardianship of last resort program through a contract with the Virginia Department of Aging and Rehabilitation Services. The Arc also serves as representative payee for guardian/conservator clients who require assistance managing their finances and paying their bills.

    Expenses $990,998

  • Personal Support Trusts: The Arc provides financial support and planning options for individuals and families to ensure the needs of individuals with disabilities are adequately met. The Arc helps families plan for a secure financial future with the special needs trust program and provides professional management and support services.

    Expenses $398,729

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

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

  • Michael Thomas

    President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Brian Creswick

    1st VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Patricia Connally

    1st VP (LEFT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sunny Blanco

    2nd VP

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Evelyn Burke

    Secretary (JOINED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Peter Dressel

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Mark Albert

    Past President

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2
  • Sarah Armstrong

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Douglas Church

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    2 + 3 related
  • Sharon Cummings

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    4
  • Hannah Dannenfelser

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Mark Fowler

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth Gray

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Elizabeth John

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donalda Jones

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Marisa Laios

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Toby Latham

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Matt Leland

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Erin Schiffman

    Member

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Melody Akhavan

    Member (JOINED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Donna Patchett

    Member (JOINED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Dan Scheinkman

    Member (JOINED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Frank Stephens

    Member (JOINED)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Katie Castellow

    Member (LEFT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1
  • Evelyn Herb

    Member (LEFT)

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    1

The first 25 listed. 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. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

  • 2024
    Revenue
    $3,657,812
    Expenses
    $2,884,105
    Contributions
    $2,332,590
    Grants paid
    $65,751
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $2,649,551
    Expenses
    $2,735,165
    Contributions
    $1,186,620
    Grants paid
    $64,803
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $2,729,778
    Expenses
    $2,595,676
    Contributions
    $1,457,984
    Grants paid
    $31,916

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

    Revenue
    $2,296,989
    Expenses
    $2,131,152
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,900,577
  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,084,898
    Expenses
    $1,948,493
    Assets (EOY)
    $3,383,584
  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,346,992
    Expenses
    $1,751,386
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,621,387
  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,623,233
    Expenses
    $1,791,628
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,761,491
  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,637,308
    Expenses
    $1,944,570
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,946,413
  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,741,308
    Expenses
    $1,650,232
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,813,778
  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,415,282
    Expenses
    $1,495,157
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,426,560
  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,444,406
    Expenses
    $1,300,816
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,489,337
  • 2013 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,104,242
    Expenses
    $1,234,338
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,287,828
  • 2012 · 990

    Revenue
    not reported
    Expenses
    $1,044,248
    Assets (EOY)
    $2,368,129

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. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

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

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Related organizations

From Schedule R Part II, where a filer lists the tax-exempt organizations it is related to by control. It does not record shared board members or money.

Declared on its 2024 return

Declared as related by

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 11 November 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.