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Novartis US Foundation at a glance

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Novartis US Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$6.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$29MHealth$13MInternational$12MHuman Services$574kScience & Tech$150kFood & Nutrition$75kPhilanthropy$3k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $163k
  • $250k+7 grants · $14M
$595,134
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND$6,062,989
MATCHING GIFTS$2,914,258
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA$1,586,082
MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$1,311,653
HOWARD UNIVERSITY$595,134
CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE$573,641
MEHARRY$573,641
NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP$162,983
CHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE$9,947
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CYBERGRANTS SPV LLC: $574k → 10%INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $723k → 16%CHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE: $605k → 12%CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $574k → 14%THE COMMONS PROJECT FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $6.1M → 14%AMERICARES: $75k → 9%MEHARRY: $574k → 14%MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.3M → 13%THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $6.4M → 22%HRET: $1.8M → 14%JEWISH RELIEF FUND: $3k → 4%NEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE ASSOCATION: $984k → 11%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $5.9M → 9%CHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE: $10k → 12%CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $560k → 14%TMCF: $24k → 14%MEHARRY: $560k → 14%MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.3M → 13%HEALTH RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL TRUST AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION: $544k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS: $3.3M → 4%TRENTON HEALTH TEAM: $75k → 11%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2.0M → 9%CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $196k → 14%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $650k → 14%MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.2M → 13%NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP: $165k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS: $2.9M → 4%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1.6M → 9%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $595k → 14%MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.2M → 13%NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORP: $164k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS: $2.8M → 4%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $1.6M → 9%HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $585k → 14%NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP: $163k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS: $2.6M → 4%CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $819k → 9%FEEDING AMERICA: $75k → 14%MATCHING GIFTS: $2.2M → 4%STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE: $150k → 4%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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
GA
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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 7 repeat orgs$18M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$24M
$12M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

71%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.1M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthCivil RightsScience & TechInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • MS
    MOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +34%
  • THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +2%
  • CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • TM
    THURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $6.4M
  • H
    HRET
    one grant, 2023 · $1.8M
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $984k · revenue -42% · 38% of their budget
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
United States Pharmacopeial Convention

Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.

Health
2
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Management Sciences for Health Inc

(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.

International
5
Medtech Innovator

Medtech innovator organizes and runs a global competition and virtual accelerator for medical device, digital health, and diagnostic startup companies.

Education
6
Altarum Institute

Altarum is focused on improving the health of individuals with fewer financial resources and populations disenfranchised by the health care system. we drive impactful changes in four domains: 1) transform health service delivery - we work…

Science & Tech
7
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
8
National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc

The national network of public health institutes, inc. (nnphi) is a national public health organization chartered on june 21, 2001. its mission is to support national public health system initiatives and strengthen public health institutes…

Health
9
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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10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
12
United Hospital Fund of New York

Working to build an effective and equitable health care system for every new yorker. (see sch. o)

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Morehouse School of Medicine; the most unlike its peers is Feeding America. 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

15 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. 15 of the 22 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MATCHING GIFTS: $13,809,711 · OtherMATCHING GIFTSTHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUND: $6,423,278 · OtherTHURGOOD MARSHALL COLLEGE FUNDHRET: $1,833,741 · OtherHRETMEHARRY: $1,133,291 · OtherNEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $984,200 · Other+4 more: $1,143,718 · OtherThurgood Marshall College Fund: $6,062,989 · EducationThurgood Marshall College FundMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5,050,250 · EducationMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINETHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,830,274 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $1,329,291 · EducationCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF ME…+1 more: $491,828 · EducationCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $11,886,605 · PhilanthropyCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION…CHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE: $614,820 · HealthThe Commons Project Foundation: $250,000 · HealthTRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC: $75,000 · HealthINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $723,320 · Civil RightsSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC: $150,000 · Science & TechAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $75,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$25,327,939Education$14,764,632Philanthropy$11,886,605Health$939,820Civil Rights$723,320Science & Tech$150,000International$75,000Food & Nutrition$75,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $11,886,605 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $6,062,989 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMOREHOUSE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $5,050,250 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,830,274 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE: $1,329,291 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNEW JERSEY PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION INC: $984,200 over 1y, 38% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT: $723,320 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCHOOSE HEALTHY LIFE: $614,820 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Merit Scholarship Corporation: $491,828 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Commons Project Foundation: $250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENTON HEALTH TEAM INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFeeding America: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New Jersey Primary Care Association Inc: 72% of income from government
  • Trenton Health Team Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Students 2 Science Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Institute for Healthcare Improvement: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Novartis US Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Novartis US Foundation 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.

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 22 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-PF 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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