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NEEDYMEDS INC

EIN 46-3091990 GLOUCESTER, MA

Revenue 2025
$1,485,370
Expenses 2025
$1,516,766

Program services were 93.6% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection
03
NTEE code
E01
Classification
1000
Street
50 WHITTEMORE 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

Mission

NEEDYMEDS EDUCATES AND EMPOWERS THOSE SEEKING AFFORDABLE HEALTHCARE.

  • NEEDYMEDS, INC,PROVIDES INFORMATION THAT HELPS INDIVIDUALS FIND ASSISTANCE WITH MEDICINE AND HEALTHCARE COSTS. THE WEBSITE IS A COMPREHENSIVE, CURRENT AND EASILY ACCESSIBLE RESOURCES ON PROGRAMS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMIDED TO: PHARMACEUTICAL PATIENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, PROGRAMS THAT ASSIST BASED ON DIAGNOSIS; FREE/LOW COST/SLIDING SCALE CLINICS; MEDICATION DISCOUNT COUPONS; CAMPS, SCHOLARSHIPS AND RETREATS BASED ON DIAGNOSIS;AND STATE AND FEDERAL PROGRAMS. ACCESS TO ALL THE INFORMATION IS FREE AND ANONYMOUS. NEEDYMEDS, INC. ALSO OFFERS A FREE DRUG DISCOUNT CARD THAT PROVIDES SAVINGS OF UP TO 80% ON THE CASH PRICE OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, OVER-THE-COUNTER MEDICATIONS AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES WRITTEN AS A PRESCRIPTION AND PET PRESCRIPTION DRUGS PURCHASED AT THE PHARMACY. NEEDYMEDS ENDEAVORS TO EDUCATE ADVOCATES AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT ALL OF THE POTENTIAL SAVINGS AVAILABLE,MEDICATION ADHERENCE AND PATIENT EMPOWERMENT.

    Expenses $1,419,322 · Revenue $1,432,572

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.

  • RUTH ROWE

    PRESIDENT

    Total calculated
    $131,346
    From this org
    $122,981
    From related orgs
    $0
    Other
    $8,365
    Hours/week
    40

  • FREDERICK COWAN

    CHAIR/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • DONALD MAIER MD

    TREASURER/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • ROBERTA DOWNEY

    CLERK/DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

  • JULIE ERICKSON

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Hours/week
    0.5

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

  • 2025
    Revenue
    $1,485,370
    Expenses
    $1,516,766
    Contributions
    $43,347
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2024
    Revenue
    $1,634,602
    Expenses
    $1,772,373
    Contributions
    $16,954
    Grants paid
    $35
  • 2023
    Revenue
    $1,727,574
    Expenses
    $1,670,773
    Contributions
    $24,549
    Grants paid
    $0
  • 2022
    Revenue
    $1,800,949
    Expenses
    $1,773,680
    Contributions
    $46,500
    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

    Revenue
    $2,079,796
    Expenses
    $2,021,634
    Assets (EOY)
    $906,653

  • 2020 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,196,896
    Expenses
    $2,145,862
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,072,565

  • 2019 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,104,641
    Expenses
    $2,077,363
    Assets (EOY)
    $807,700

  • 2018 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,985,644
    Expenses
    $2,250,340
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,129,495

  • 2017 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,247,263
    Expenses
    $2,041,396
    Assets (EOY)
    $1,892,030

  • 2016 · 990

    Revenue
    $2,032,636
    Expenses
    $2,079,009
    Assets (EOY)
    $865,797

  • 2015 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,821,197
    Expenses
    $1,773,812
    Assets (EOY)
    $926,602

  • 2014 · 990

    Revenue
    $1,612,207
    Expenses
    $1,445,034
    Assets (EOY)
    $809,151

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.

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

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 13 October 2026 and read 26 October 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2025, the newest we have parsed for this organization.