Advocates for adoption, researching and educating to ensure every child thrives in a permanent family.
For fiscal year 2025 it reported $1.7M in revenue, $1.5M in expenses, and $2.2M in net assets.Pt I
Where the money goes · FY2025
Total revenue
$1.7M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$1.5M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$2.2M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expenses (Pt I · Ln 19): $181K
Where spending went · Part IX cols B–D
72%
16%
12%
Program services $0.72 Management & general $0.16 Fundraising $0.12
Program efficiency
72%
of spending reaches programs▲ +16% vs prior filing year
Operating runway
9.8mo
months of highly liquid reserves at operating expense rate▼ -20% vs prior filing year
Surplus margin
+11%
revenue over expenses, this year▲ +168% vs prior filing year
Summary of the Filing
Part I · fiscal year 2025 · Form 990
Revenue
$1.7M
FY2025▲ +74%
$2.8M$1.4M$0
FY2021FY2025
Expenses
$1.5M
FY2025▲ +34%
$1.5M$764K$0
FY2021FY2025
Total assets
$2.6M
FY2025▲ +10%
$2.6M$1.3M$0
FY2021FY2025
Total liabilities
$393K
FY2025▲ +15%
$905K$452K$0
FY2021FY2025
Total revenue
$1.7M
Pt VIII · Ln 12
Total expenses
$1.5M
Pt IX · Ln 25
Net assets
$2.2M
Pt X · Ln 32
Revenue less expensesPt I · Ln 19$181K
Total assetsPt X · Ln 16$2.6M
Program-expense ratioPt IX · col B72%
Voting members of governing bodyPt I · Ln 319
Independent voting membersPt I · Ln 419
Mission & Programs · Part III
Where the work happens
3 program services account for $629K of program spending, described in the organization's own filed words · FY2024.
01
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.
$285Kprogram expense
02
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.
$198Kprogram expense
03
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…
Ryan Hanlon’s $158K as President & CEO
is at the 77th percentile of top reported officer pay among 3864 $1–10M human services nonprofits.
Peer set: organizations in the same NTEE major field of work and revenue-size band, compared on each org’s own highest-paid officer/key-employee, from Form 990 Part VII / 990-PF Part VIII. Descriptive placement, not a verdict on whether the pay is appropriate.
Compensation history total reportable pay by year · 3 named individuals · Part VII
Total reportable compensation (Form 990 Part VII column D / Schedule J column E) by filing year, matched by name within this organization. The Schedule J base / bonus / deferred breakdown is not parsed into this dataset.
Individual Ryan Hanlon · Reported title President & CEO · Highest reported compensation $158K · Total expenses $1.5M
10%
Personnel share
Salaries, benefits & payroll (Pt IX 5-10) $823K · Total expenses $1.5M
54%
Peer comparison
Same NTEE category, revenue band, and state where available. Descriptive — not a grade.
Metric
This org
Peer median
Percentile
Program ratio
72%
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Overhead ratio
16%
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Fundraising cost ratio
15%
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Revenue growth
74%
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Accounting fee ratio
3%
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Straight from the Form 990 — descriptive, not an evaluation. A ratio is hidden when its base is zero or too small to be meaningful; the dollars are always shown.
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Sources
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Form 990 e-file (XML) · FY2025IRS
Classification, formation year, addressIRS Business Master File
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