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Alliance for Patient Access

At its core, the ALLIANCE FOR PATIENT ACCESS is a national network of healthcare professionals dedicated to promoting the benefits of patient-centered health care. Afpa accomplishes its mission through educating clinicians on issues impacting patient access and empowering them to engage and inform policy makers.

$150k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Itemized grants FY2024
5
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$141k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$60,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 7
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
4
Total assets, FY2024
$3.3M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Alliance for Patient Access funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCivil RightsPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$141k20%
FY20235$185k0%
FY20227$379k57%
FY20213$236k33%
FY20203$300k0%
FY20193$217k0%
FY20184$433k75%
FY20171$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MPublic Benefit$45k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Where it is load-bearing

Alliance for Patient Access supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 9 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInstitute for Patient Access: $633,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetCampaign to Protect Patient Health: $587,000 over 5y, 78% of budgetNational Coalition for Infant Health: $380,000 over 5y, 72% of budgetGout Support Group of America: $150,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetPartnership for the Advancement of Cardiovascular Health: $50,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNcsl Foundation for State Legislatures: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLupus and Allied Diseases Association Inc: $29,260 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDerma Care Access Network: $25,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Alliance for Patient Access?

Find your warmest path to Alliance for Patient Access through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Alliance for Patient Access

How much does Alliance for Patient Access give?
Alliance for Patient Access reported 5 itemized grants totaling $141,077, out of $150,077 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Alliance for Patient Access fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (98%), Public Benefit (2%).
Who are Alliance for Patient Access's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Institute for Patient Access ($633k), Campaign to Protect Patient Health ($587k), National Coalition for Infant Health ($380k).
Does Alliance for Patient Access fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Alliance for Patient Access?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.
Where is Alliance for Patient Access based?
Alliance for Patient Access is based in DC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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