National Survivors Union Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 874435672
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2021–2024
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2024
- Location
- Greensboro, NC, USA
- Rating
- 93
- Verdict
- STRONG
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Alliance/Advocacy
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $162,611
- Expenses
- $31,504
- Assets
- $150,804
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
7 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Nicholas Voyles (President)
People named in this filing
- Catherine Simon (Treasurer)
- Aaron Ferguson (Secretary)
- Nicholas Voyles (President)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
National Survivors Union's mission is to end the racist war on drugs, the war on sex workers, the war on underground economies, and the war on poverty. We accomplish this through organizing and mobilizing, empowerment and skill-building, and holding increasingly professionalized harm reduction and public health spaces accountable to people who use drugs and trade sex. We hold the values of being led by impacted people through non-hierarchical organizing and collective leadership, a shared messaging of pride and love, meaningful engagement, and intersectional experiences. Our goals are to give people who use and sell drugs and people who trade sex the resources they need to not only survive but thrive through racist drug and anti-trafficking wars, nurturing fellow drug user and sex worker brilliance and achievement.
What it reported doing in 2024
This year, National Survivors Union instituted all-Black leadership of its general drug user call. Our methadone reform call, has been working on a Patient Bill of Rights project that has attracted new members to that call, further cementing our partnership with the National Coalition to Liberate Methadone. We participated in a research partnership with Boulder Care, a harm-reduction-focused telehealth buprenorphine company, on a Small Business Innovation Research grant with the National Institute of Drug Abuse. Our sex worker organizing team created an election information zine for drug user and sex worker populations, and is now at work creating a similar zine bringing information across the country on how we can resist hostile political environments. Our biweekly grantwriting call helped many affiliate groups write grants to fund themselves and taught a number of non-profit administration skills to attendees. Finally, we are bringing about 30 National Survivors Union members with us on our scholarships to the upcoming International Drug Policy Reform Conference in Detroit.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent revenue detail to tell how this nonprofit funds its work.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Some filed totals do not add up.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: 88
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: 82
- Growth: 100
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: 80.6%; rating input score 81
- Program expense ratio: 100%; rating input score 100
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: 80.6%; rating input score 98; 98th percentile among comparable filings
- Total-asset coverage ratio: 4.79; rating input score 96; 96th percentile among comparable filings
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 63; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
Growth
- Program expense growth: 64.6% per year; rating input score 100; 94th percentile among comparable filings
- Revenue growth: 58.2% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
- Asset growth: 76.7% per year; rating input score 100; 97th percentile among comparable filings
Details
- Where the money goes: 80.6% of revenue deployed · 100% of spending went to programs
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment · $131K in reported program spending
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 7 people listed
- Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
- Schedules: 3 filed schedules
- Filing history: 4 filing years from 2021 to 2024
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part III program expenses within total did not reconcile in the filed values.