· Public charity
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Phrma's mission is to conduct effective advocacy for public policies that encourage the discovery of important, new medicines for patients by biopharmaceutical research companies.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k69 grants · $497k
- $10k–50k277 grants · $5.5M
- $50k–250k87 grants · $8.5M
- $250k+28 grants · $27M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WE WORK FOR HEALTH | $6,827,095 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| AMERICAN ACTION NETWORK INC | $4,000,000 |
| NATIONAL CONSUMERS LEAGUE INC | $875,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF HEALTHCARE PURCHASER COALITION | $850,000 |
| PHRMA INDEPENDENT EXPENDITURE COMMITTEE | $842,096 |
| CAMPAIGN TO PROTECT PATIENT HEALTH | $660,000 |
| COUNCIL FOR AFFORDABLE HEALTH COVERAGE | $615,000 |
| REPUBLICAN STATE LEADERSHIP COMMITTEE | $550,000 |
| INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION FOUNDATION | $515,000 |
| REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION | $500,000 |
| MINNESOTANS FOR FREEDOM | $500,000 |
| PNW PHRMA PAC | $417,500 |
| DOMESTIC POLICIES CAUCUS | $391,000 |
| NATIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL | $390,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $32.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.
625 repeat relationships: 322 still active in FY2024, 303 since wound down; 134 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AAAmerican Action Network Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $30M · revenue +92%
- CFCENTER FORWARD7× · 2017–2023 · $12M · revenue +124% · 37% of their budget
- BIBIOTECHNOLOGY INNOVATION ORGANIZATION6× · 2017–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +50%
Funded once
- AFAMERICA FIRST WORKS INCone grant, 2017 · $2.5M · revenue -100%
- NRNATIONAL REPUBLICAN REDISTRICTING TRUSTone grant, 2017 · $1.0M
- UPUNLEASH PROSPERITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500k · revenue +222% · 31% 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.
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.
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How this is measured
967 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. 967 of the 1,330 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Biotechnology Innovation Organization · Edison Electric Institute Inc · Ncta - the Internet & Television Association · Association for Accessible Medicines · Motion Picture Association Inc · Ctia - the Wireless Association · Nuclear Energy Institute Inc · Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund Inc · The Business Roundtable Inc · Advanced Medical Technology Association · Pharmaceutical Care Management Association · National Association of Broadcasters
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cpwr the Center for Construction Research and Training: 79% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Technology Council of Maryland: 2% of income from government
- The Addiction Policy Forum: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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