- Revenue 2024
- $5,279,102
- Expenses 2024
- $5,253,324
Program services were 87.7% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.
As filed
- Subsection
- 03
- NTEE code
- E050
- Classification
- 1000
- Street
- 266 WEST 37TH ST 3RD FL
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 Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives. Since 1989, weve been helping people with Medicare understand their rights and benefits, navigate the Medicare system, and secure the quality health care they deserve. We strive to be the most reliable source of independent, unbiased Medicare information in the United States.
Activities or mission (Part I)
The Medicare Rights Center is a national, nonprofit consumer service organization that works to ensure access to affordable health care for older adults and people with disabilities through counseling and advocacy, educational programs, and public policy initiatives.
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HELPLINES: Medicare Rights' expert staff and volunteers answered more than 29,700 questions on its multilingual national helpline for people with Medicare, their families, and the professionals serving them. As part of this work, Medicare Rights provided over 9,903 counseling sessions devoted to appeals and other Medicare-related legal issues.
Expenses $2,091,379 · Revenue $793,000
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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH: Medicare Rights' expert print and online resources and trainings, provided through Medicare Interactive (www.medicareinteractive.org), answered 2.1 million Medicare questions and empowered professionals across the country to better serve their own older clients and those with disabilities. As part of this work, Medicare Rights offers its training and certification services to Medicare counselors nationally through the State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP) Technical Assistance Center and the Senior Medicare Patrol Resource Center.
Expenses $1,403,086 · Revenue $822,594
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Policy: Medicare Rights carried the stories of the clients it serves to meetings of policymakers and other stakeholders in New York and Washington, DC., and media placements totaled 1,596. Medicare Rights also led 249 presentations and trainings to translate Medicare policy into consumer-friendly language and circulated Medicare newsletters and other communications to a list of more than 124,574 readers.
Expenses $566,540
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ENROLLMENT SERVICES: Medicare Rights submitted more than 2,186 Medicare cost-saving benefit applications for its clients, saving enrolled individuals $11.5 million in out-of-pocket health care costs and increasing their access to needed care and medicines.
Expenses $544,226 · Revenue $694,649
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.
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Frederic Riccardi
President
- Total calculated
- $268,362
- From this org
- $233,879
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $34,483
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $233,879
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $9,232
- Nontaxable benefits
- $25,251
- Filer's total
- $268,362
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Lindsey CopelandLINDSEY COPELAND
FED POLICY DIR
- Total calculated
- $230,837
- From this org
- $155,415
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $75,422
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $155,415
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $638
- Nontaxable benefits
- $74,784
- Filer's total
- $230,837
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Rachel BennettRACHEL BENNETT
VP OF PROGRAM DEV
- Total calculated
- $210,057
- From this org
- $172,886
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $37,171
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $172,886
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $15,044
- Nontaxable benefits
- $22,127
- Filer's total
- $210,057
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Marcin BednarzMARCIN BEDNARZ
DIRECTOR OF IT
- Total calculated
- $204,104
- From this org
- $164,997
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $39,107
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $164,997
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $3,531
- Nontaxable benefits
- $35,576
- Filer's total
- $204,104
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Mitchell ClarkMITCHELL CLARK
Director of Comm
- Total calculated
- $159,076
- From this org
- $118,454
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $40,622
- Hours/week
- 37.5
Schedule J breakdown matched by us
- Base
- $118,454
- Bonus
- not reported
- Other
- not reported
- Deferred
- $6,697
- Nontaxable benefits
- $33,925
- Filer's total
- $159,076
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Sarah A Murdoch
Client Serv Dir
- Total calculated
- $138,486
- From this org
- $104,770
- From related orgs
- $0
- Other
- $33,716
- Hours/week
- 37.5
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Ann AdenbaumANN ADENBAUM
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Leroy BarrLEROY BARR
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Kathy ChinKATHY CHIN
CO-CHAIRPERSON
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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David Matyas JDDAVID MATYAS JD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Van Dunn
board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Cybele BjorklundCYBELE BJORKLUND
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
-
Sandra KreshSANDRA KRESH
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Peter HutchingsPETER HUTCHINGS
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Nedal Shami
board member
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 0.5
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Alan LubinALAN LUBIN
TREASURER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 2
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Marilyn Moon PhDMARILYN MOON PHD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Carol RaphaelCAROL RAPHAEL
CO-CHAIRPERSON
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 4
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Herman Rosen MDHERMAN ROSEN MD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Bruce Vladeck PhDBRUCE VLADECK PHD
Chair Emeritus
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1.5
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Donna Regenstreif PhDDONNA REGENSTREIF PHD
Chair Emerita
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Curtis L Cole MDCURTIS L COLE MD
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Edith Everett
BOARD MEMBER
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
-
Renu ThomasRENU THOMAS
Secretary
- Total calculated
- $0
- Hours/week
- 1
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Tina GeorgeouTINA GEORGEOU
BOARD MEMBER
- 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. 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
-
2024
- Revenue
- $5,279,102
- Expenses
- $5,253,324
- Contributions
- $3,357,982
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2023
- Revenue
- $4,845,552
- Expenses
- $4,653,405
- Contributions
- $3,105,891
- Grants paid
- $0
-
2022
- Revenue
- $4,289,491
- Expenses
- $4,095,816
- Contributions
- $3,377,019
- 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
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2021 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,027,841
- Expenses
- $3,603,361
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,675,870
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2020 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,014,929
- Expenses
- $3,753,948
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,326,326
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2019 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,121,429
- Expenses
- $3,566,968
- Assets (EOY)
- $4,173,312
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2018 · 990
- Revenue
- $4,026,857
- Expenses
- $3,696,132
- Assets (EOY)
- $3,236,178
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,519,300
- Expenses
- $3,696,496
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,844,613
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2017 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,519,300
- Expenses
- $3,696,496
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,844,613
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2016 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,977,626
- Expenses
- $3,721,313
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,958,049
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2015 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,475,554
- Expenses
- $3,739,531
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,748,178
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2014 · 990
- Revenue
- $3,867,104
- Expenses
- $3,124,035
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,858,828
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2013 · 990
- Revenue
- $2,773,977
- Expenses
- $2,732,206
- Assets (EOY)
- $2,110,996
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
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COMMUNITY SERVICE SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
$1,100,780
2024 DIRECT SERVICE
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2023 DIRECT SERVICE
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2022 DIRECT SERVICE
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$242,000
2023 Grant to support AARP Foundation's Benefits program
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$200,000
2024 FOR PROGRAM SUPPORT.
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$196,990
2024 GRANT TO SUPPORT AARP FOUNDATION'S FINANCIAL WELLBEING PROGRAM
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$150,000
2022 Grant to support AARP Foundation's Benefits program
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$122,025
2022 SUPPORT
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$102,975
2023 SUPPORT
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$84,000
2023 Sponsorship for the 2023 gala
The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.
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 13 October 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.