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Partnership for Safe Medicines Inc

The partnership for safe medicines (psm) is a public health group committed to the safety of prescription drugs and educating its members and the public against counterfeit, substandard or otherwise unsafe medicine.

$55k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$55k
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, FY2017 to 2023.

Crime & Legal$2.7MCommunity Improvement$244kHealth$183kPublic Safety & Disaster$16k
02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$428k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS$55,000
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 (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $17k → 10%ALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES: $104k → 14%OREGON STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $6k → 8%HEALTHY TENNESSEE: $15k → 14%NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT: $20k → 6%NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS: $55k → 7%NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: $1.4M → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION: $118k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES: $75k → 14%NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $30k → 7%NATIONAL SHERIFFS ASSOCIATION: $910k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION: $78k → 11%ASOP GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $48k → 14%NAT ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY: $6k → 7%NATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION: $76k → 9%NATIONAL ASSOC OF DRUG DIVERSION: $10k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES: $30k → 14%NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: $36k → 9%NATIONAL NARCOTIC OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION: $20k → 14%NATIONAL SHERIFF'S ASSOCIATION: $15k → 9%NATIONAL NARCOTIC OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION: $15k → 14%NATIONAL SHERRIFFS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 9%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL: $10k → 14%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL: $10k → 14%NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT MEMORIAL: $10k → 14%NATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $16k → 14%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 6 repeat orgs$128k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue 0% since the first grant, against -17% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$3.0M
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
-17%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • NS
    NATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $2.4M · revenue 0%
  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES
    3× · 2020–2022 · $209k · revenue -21%
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION INVESTIGATORS INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $206k · revenue -32%

Funded once

  • AG
    ASOP GLOBAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -80% · 27% of their budget
  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue +80%
  • TP
    TEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · $17k · revenue -5%
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
North Carolina Association of Pharmacists

The north carolina association of pharmacists primary purpose is to unite, serve, and advance the profession of pharmacy for the benefit of society in north carolina.

Community Improvement
2
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
3
National Council for Prescription Drug Programs Inc

Lead the industry in healthcare standards and solutions for the common good.

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4
North Dakota Pharmaceutical Association

Ndpha provides education, individual and systemic advocacy on behalf of our members in the areas of health and human services.

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5
National Association of Police Organizations Inc

The national association of police organizations (napo) was established to unite all law enforcement organizations within the united states in order to promote and maintain federal legislation and policies most beneficial to law…

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6
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy Foundation

The nabp foundation establishes continuing education programs to inform, educate and instruct pharmacy board members and staff, drug law enforcement agents, legal counsel for the boards, and pharmacists and other health professionals. the…

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7
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy

Nabp assists member boards of pharmacy and state jurisdictions in developing, implementing and enforcing uniform standards for the purpose of protecting the public health, including the development of pharmacist licensing examinations,…

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8
Pennsylvania Narcotics Officers

To promote and foster mutual cooperation, coordination, and discussion of drug law enforcement among drug enforcement officers and their agencies.

Health
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.

—
10
California Narcotic Officers Association

Educates the public and its membership on the dangers of narcotic and drug abuse, provides a medium for the exchange of ideas and the new techniques used by both criminals and investigators; and keeps the membership and the public informed…

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11
National Association of Medication Access and Patient Advocacy Inc

Charitable education association for healthcare workers

Education
12
Association of American Physicians & Surgeons Inc

To protect the practice of private medicine, preserve freedom of choice for patients, and educate physicians and the general public.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Healthy Tennessee. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION: $2,411,000 · OtherNATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION INVESTIGATORS INC: $205,500 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION INVESTIGATORS INC+6 more: $179,500 · Other+6 moreALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES: $209,350 · Community ImprovementNATIONAL NARCOTIC OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONS: $35,000 · Community ImprovementASOP GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $48,000 · HealthHealthy Tennessee: $15,000 · HealthNeedymeds Inc: $6,000 · Health
Other$2,796,000Community Improvement$244,350Health$69,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL SHERIFFS' ASSOCIATION: $2,411,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SAFE ONLINE PHARMACIES: $209,350 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF DRUG DIVERSION INVESTIGATORS INC: $205,500 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS INC: $91,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetASOP GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $48,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL NARCOTIC OFFICERS ASSOCIATIONS: $35,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetNATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION OF BLACK LAW ENFORCEMENT EXECUTIVES: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $17,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL FRATERNAL ORDER OF POLICE FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHealthy Tennessee: $15,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetNeedymeds Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOREGON STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 Partnership for Safe Medicines Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Partnership for Safe Medicines Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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

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    How do I get to Partnership for Safe Medicines Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Partnership for Safe Medicines Inc 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 13 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $1k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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