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American Pharmacists Association

As the voice of pharmacy, the AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION leads the profession and equips members for their role as the medication expert in team-based, patient-centered care.

$211k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$86k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$944kEducation$768kEmployment$141kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $74k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $136k
$40,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$163M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION$86,400
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATION$50,000
AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION$40,000
PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER$13,297
AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION$11,000
FLORIDA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 82% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $693k → 14%FLORIDA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 19%PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITION: $15k → 14%ACCREDIATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $18k → 6%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER: $18k → 7%NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $50k → 7%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $21k → 9%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $5k → 22%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 8%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITION: $15k → 14%ACCREDIATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER: $13k → 7%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $9k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 8%PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITION: $15k → 14%ACCREDIATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $9k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 8%PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITION: $8k → 14%ACCREDIATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $9k → 9%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 8%ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%PHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $9k → 9%ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%PQA: $17k → 6%ACCREDITATION COUNCIL ON PHARMACY EDUCATION: $86k → 14%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $22k → 6%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.8M · 7 repeat orgs$98k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$1.8M
$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+14%

Still filing today

86%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • AC
    ACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $691k · revenue +58%
  • PI
    PQA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $118k · revenue +278%
  • AA
    AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF PHARMACY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $31k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR CREDENTIALING EXCELLENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $33k · revenue +14%
  • VH
    VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
American Pharmacists Association

As the voice of pharmacy, the american pharmacists association leads the profession and equips members for their role as the medication expert in team-based, patient-centered care. apha will accomplish this by:* advancing pharmacists'…

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2
American Academy of Physician Associates Inc

To ensure the professional growth, personal excellence, and recognition of physician associates, and to support efforts to enable them to improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of patient-centered health care.

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3
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (Ashp)

The mission of pharmacists is to help people achieve optimal health outcomes. ashp helps its members achieve this mission by advocating and supporting the professional practice of pharmacists in hospitals, health systems, ambulatory care…

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4
Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding

To protect, promote and advance the art and science of pharmacy compounding.

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5
Indiana Pharmacists Association

To be the voice and advocate for the profession of pharmacy in indiana.

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6
Kansas Pharmacists Association

To preserve, protect and advance kansas pharmacy practice through education, engagement and advocacy.

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7
National Pharmaceutical Assoc Inc

Provides pharmaceutical up to date information to its members and awards scholarships to students pursuing similar interests and at the same time promotes community awareness of its commitments.

Community Improvement
8
Washington State Pharmacy Association

The Washington State Pharmacy Association is the home and voice of pharmacy practice. We advocate on behalf of the profession to ensure pharmacy professionals are uniformly recognized as a vital member of the healthcare team.

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9
National Community Pharmacists Association

Ncpa protects and promotes the interests of independent pharmacists whose current and future success is vital to their patients, their communities, and the entire healthcare system.

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10
American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology Inc

To advance the science, practice, and education of clinical psychopharmacology, and to improve the health and well-being of our patients.

Arts & Culture
11
University Professional and Continuing Education Association

University professional and continuing education association (upcea) advances leadership in professional, continuing and online education. the association is dedicated to meeting the needs of professional members and the institutions they…

Education
12
Texas Pharmacy Association

The association's purpose is to promote the role of the pharmacist and the practice of pharmacy in the state of texas.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Florida Pharmacy Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pharmacy Workforce Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 11 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $733,142 · HealthAMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONPQA INC: $117,985 · HealthPQA INCPHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $56,254 · HealthPHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INCAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF PHARMACY: $31,465 · HealthACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCATION: $691,340 · OtherACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCATIONPROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITION: $52,875 · OtherPROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATION COALITIONNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS INC: $50,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS IN…INSTITUTE FOR CREDENTIALING EXCELLENCE: $32,846 · Other+2 more: $15,000 · OtherAmerican Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $77,000 · Education
Health$938,846Other$842,061Education$77,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION FOUNDATION: $733,142 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetACCREDITATION COUNCIL FOR PHARMACY EDUCATION: $691,340 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetPQA INC: $117,985 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $77,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetPHARMACY WORKFORCE CENTER INC: $56,254 over 5y, 55% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CREDENTIALING EXCELLENCE: $32,846 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES OF PHARMACY: $31,465 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFLORIDA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Pharmacists Association funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Pharmacists Association. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    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 11 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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