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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc

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$3.0M
Granted FY2023
9
Itemized grants FY2023
8
Organizations funded FY2023
88%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$201k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 8
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
9
Total assets, FY2023
$29M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 88% of the organizations Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 94% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
HealthEducationPublic 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
FY20238$176k88%
FY20226$49k67%
FY20212$26k0%
FY20205$248k60%
FY20192$96k50%
FY20183$46k67%
FY20177$261kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$546kEducation$167kSocial Science$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$25kEnvironment$8kCommunity Improvement$6k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NC
DC
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Health Council Inc$155,84423%
The Rand Corporation$100,09720%
American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education$77,00072%
Altarum Institute$75,00010%
Healthcare Ready$75,00012%
National Eczema Association$50,0001n/a
Duke University$50,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$25,0001n/a
University of Texas$25,0001n/a
The Ohio State University$25,0001n/a
Show all 24 grantees
All grantees of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
National Health Council Inc$155,84423%
The Rand Corporation$100,09720%
American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education$77,00072%
Altarum Institute$75,00010%
Healthcare Ready$75,00012%
National Eczema Association$50,0001n/a
Duke University$50,00010%
University of Maryland College Park$25,0001n/a
University of Texas$25,0001n/a
The Ohio State University$25,0001n/a
Northwestern Memorial Healthcare$25,0001n/a
The Lakdawalla Group$25,0001n/a
Johns Hopkins University$25,00010%
Honorhealth$25,00010%
Regents of the University of Michigan$25,0001n/a
State University of Iowa$25,0001n/a
Sanofi US Services Inc (Dba Cameron Kieffer Phd)$17,5001n/a
Janssen Research & Development LLC (Dba Miranda Johnson Phd)$17,5001n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$15,0001n/a
A & J Consulting - Maryland LLC$13,7502n/a
Oregon Health & Science University$7,5001n/a
Thomas Jefferson University$7,50010%
The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University$7,50010%
Sick Cells$7,50011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNational Health Council Inc: $155,844 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetThe Rand Corporation: $100,097 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $77,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetAltarum Institute: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHealthcare Ready: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetDuke University: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonorhealth: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Jefferson University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tower Foundation of San Jose State University: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSick Cells: $7,500 over 1y, 1.3% 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 11.

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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.

Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover 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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About Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc

How much does Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc give?
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc reported 9 itemized grants totaling $201,000, out of $2,952,608 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (57%), Education (18%), Social Science (11%).
Who are Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: National Health Council Inc ($156k), The Rand Corporation ($100k), American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education ($77k).
Does Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 88% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc based?
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc 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 26 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 (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.7M 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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