National Vaccine Information Center

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
541951769
IRS 990 coverage
2011–2024
Forms available
Form 990 2024
Location
Sterling, VA, USA
Phone
7039380342
Rating
83
Verdict
STRONG
Rating confidence
Moderate

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$1,448,621
Expenses
$1,404,425
Assets
$4,029,727
Liabilities
$67,712

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • BARBARA LOE ARTHUR (PRESIDENT)

Highest reported compensation

  • BARBARA LOE ARTHUR (PRESIDENT): $61,750 total reported compensation
  • KATHRYN M WILLIAMS (VICE PRESIDE): $52,250 total reported compensation
  • THERESA K WRANGHAM (EXECUTIVE DI): $51,458 total reported compensation

Source: IRS Form 990. Selected filing: tax year 2024. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The purpose of nvic is to promote and encourage the health and welfare of american children and adults through its research and education-oriented programs to prevent vaccine injuries and deaths and to assist individuals (both children and adults) who have been vaccine injured. Nvic is the oldest and largest consumer health organization in america providing vaccine and disease risk information to the general public; advocating safety reforms in the mass vaccination system and endorsing independent scientific research into vaccine-associated deaths, injuries and chronic illness. Nvic public education program is multi-faceted, including: public conferences, symposiums, workshops; television, radio and print media, and public announcements; the publication and distribution of books, audio and video tapes, newsletters and other visual and printed materials and it maintains an internet website (http://www.nvic.org).

What it reported doing in 2024

Public education programs nvic's public education program is multi-faceted, sponsoring four websites, digital publications, videos, podcasts, conferences, and alternative social media engagement. Websites nvic.org: established in 1995, this flagship site is the oldest and largest non-governmental consumer-operated website on the internet, disseminating vaccine and infectious disease related information with a focus on preventing vaccine injuries and deaths. The website features over 2,000 web pages with extensively researched, referenced information on vaccine history, science, policy, law, ethics, and educational videos. It houses nvic's 40+ years of commentaries, special reports, articles, statements, podcasts, testimony, and videos. In fye 2025, content additions included referenced articles and videos on covid-19 and covid shots; measles and measles vaccine; bird flu; the history of the 1986 national childhood vaccine injury act; censorship; keeping federal government out of state vaccine law-making; and securing informed consent protections, including ending mandates. Information updates on diseases and federally recommended vaccines, state daycare/school vaccine laws and exemptions. Platform migration to a more user-friendly system that enhanced security, content delivery, operation, seo, and visitor engagement. During fye 2025, the website hosted approximately 231,000 visitors. Nvicadvocacy.org: launched in 2010, this portal provides registered users with free public access to comprehensive analysis of vaccine-related legislation introduced in the u.s. In the 2025 session, staff tracked and analyzed about 700 bills in 45 states and Washington, d.c. The website garnered over 54,000 page views this reporting period. Thevaccinereaction.org: a digital weekly journal newspaper (print origins in 1995) promotes "an enlightened conversation about vaccination, health, and autonomy" with a focus on breaking news topics related to vaccines and diseases, health, ethics, medicine, law, media and business. The website maintains a searchable archive and hosted about 202,000 visitors this fiscal year. Medalerts.org: sponsored by nvic since 2006 (established 2003), this website offers user-friendly searches of the federal vaccine adverse event reporting system (vaers) database-secured by nvic co-founders in the 1986 act. An easy-to-use and powerful search engine, it enables public queries on vaccine adverse events reported to vaers, including hospitalizations, injuries, and deaths following vaccination. The website hosted over 40 million visitors in fye 2025 (175 percent increase) with a total of 64 million visitors since 2013. Public education highlights staff produced fully referenced print commentaries, videos, podcasts, and federal agency public comments on topics including censorship; 1986 act history; mrna covid shot risks; changing hepatitis b birth dose to individual decision-making; pertussis/measles outbreaks and vaccine failures; exemption limitations; protecting state laws from federal interference; and informed consent rights. Nvic sponsored research published. During fye 2025, the results of nvic- funded research investigating health outcomes (specific learning disabilities, adhd, encephalopathy, autism spectrum disorder) in vaccinated versus unvaccinated children was published. The study confirmed associations between vaccination and chronic illness/disability and received coverage in alternative, social, and mainstream media. Nvic newsletter and the vaccine reaction seven digital nvic newsletter editions published, with 670,000 emails linking subscribers to original articles, videos, resources, and fundraising on nvic.org. The vaccine reaction weekly editions kept supporters informed on science, policy, law, and informed consent and published 52 editions with an average open rate of 42 percent. These editions contained over 200 referenced articles and 52 videos. Social media ongoing lifetime bans on facebook, instagram,

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 91% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.
  • Includes noncash contributions: Reported contributions include donated property or goods.

The verdict

STRONG - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Fundraising costs are high for each dollar raised and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 76
  • Transparency & Controls: 92
  • Accountability: 85
  • Sustainability: 54
  • Growth: 100

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 78.9%; rating input score 79
  • Program expense ratio: 79.4%; rating input score 79
  • Fundraising efficiency: $17.04 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 54; 54th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
  • Pay-setting controls: Limited
  • Foreign activity oversight: Limited
  • Grant itemization coverage: Limited
  • Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
  • Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

  • Independent voting board: 75%; rating input score 75; 16th percentile among comparable filings
  • Governance controls: 9 of 9 controls in place; rating input score 100
    • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
    • Whistleblower policy: Pass
    • Document-retention policy: Pass
    • CEO compensation review process: Pass
    • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
    • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
    • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
    • Audit committee oversight: Pass
    • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 3.1%; rating input score 45; 45th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 2.87; rating input score 74; 74th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.02; rating input score 64; 64th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 11.8%; rating input score 31; 31st percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: 6.7% per year; rating input score 100; 50th percentile among comparable filings
  • Revenue growth: 7.1% per year; rating input score 100; 55th percentile among comparable filings
  • Asset growth: 12.7% per year; rating input score 100; 67th percentile among comparable filings

Details

  • Where the money goes: 78.9% of revenue deployed · 79.4% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: 6 of 8 board members independent · 9 of 9 filing controls reported
  • Programs: 4 filed program accomplishments · $1.1M in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $62K · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 31 of 31 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 6 filed schedules · includes major donors
  • Filing history: 13 filing years from 2011 to 2024
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Money network: 3 filed money-flow records
  • 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.

  • Review — Financial Efficiency: Fundraising efficiency scored 54/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 45/100.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 31/100.