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Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc

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$3.0M
Granted FY2023
9
Grants FY2023
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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.

Health$546kEducation$167kSocial Science$100kPublic Safety & Disaster$75kScience & Tech$25kHuman Services$25kEnvironment$8kCommunity Improvement$6k
02FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $201,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,952,608 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $2,751,608 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$25,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Southern California Keck School of$25,000
Johns Hopkins University$25,000
Honor Health Research Institute$25,000
State University of Iowa$25,000
The University of Texas at Austin$25,000
Northwestern Memorial Foundation$25,000
The Ohio State University$25,000
The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc$15,000
AFPE(American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Educ)$11,000
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 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Honor Health Research Institute: $25k → 11%The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc: $15k → 16%Thomas Jefferson University: $8k → 22%NATIONAL ECZEMA ASSOCIATION: $50k → 8%The Lakdawalla Group: $25k → 14%The University of Texas at Austin: $25k → 10%Healthcare Ready: $75k → 14%State University of Iowa: $25k → 15%ALTARUM INSTITUTE: $75k → 14%Oregon Health and Science University: $8k → 12%The Ohio State University: $25k → 15%Sick Cells: $8k → 7%Northwestern Memorial Foundation: $25k → 14%JANSSEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LLC (DBA MIRANDA JOHNSON PHD): $18k → 5%American FDN for Pharmaceutical EduCATION: $11k → 6%Johns Hopkins University: $25k → 19%University of Southern California Keck School of: $25k → 14%National Health Council: $131k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25k → 14%SANOFI US SERVICES INC (DBA CAMERON KIEFFER PHD): $18k → 5%AFPE(American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Educ): $11k → 6%A & J CONSULTING - MARYLAND LLC: $8k → 19%NATIONAL HEALTH COUNCIL: $25k → 14%American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $11k → 6%A & J Consulting - Maryland LLC: $6k → 19%American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $11k → 6%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 6%AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR PHARMACEUTICAL EDUCATION: $11k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$347k · 4 repeat orgs$555k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
13

Total granted

$347k
$390k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+18%

Still filing today

75%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $165k 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
EducationHealthScience & TechYouth DevelopmentPublic 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NH
    National Health Council Inc
    2× · 2017–2020 · $156k · revenue +45%
  • The Rand Corporation
    2× · 2019–2021 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • AF
    American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education
    7× · 2017–2023 · $77k · revenue -11%

Funded once

  • AI
    ALTARUM INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -24%
  • HR
    Healthcare Ready
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -97%
  • NE
    National Eczema Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +81%
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
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
2
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
3
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
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
6
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
7
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

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

Education
8
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
9
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
10
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
11
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
12
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Johns Hopkins University; the most unlike its peers is National Eczema Association. 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

14 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. 14 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

National Health Council Inc: $155,844 · OtherNational Health Council IncUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXASTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITYNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE: $25,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCAREThe Lakdawalla Group: $25,000 · OtherThe Lakdawalla GroupREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $25,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANState University of Iowa: $25,000 · OtherState University of IowaSANOFI US SERVICES INC (DBA CAMERON KIEFFER PHD): $17,500 · OtherJANSSEN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT LLC (DBA MIRANDA JOHNSON PHD): $17,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $15,000 · OtherA & J CONSULTING - MARYLAND LLC: $13,750 · Other+1 more: $7,500 · OtherAmerican Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education: $77,000 · EducationAmerican Foundation for P…DUKE UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationDUKE UNIVERSITYPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CA…JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $7,500 · EducationHealthcare Ready: $75,000 · HealthHealthcare R…HONORHEALTH: $25,000 · HealthHONORHEALTHSICK CELLS: $7,500 · HealthSICK CELLSThe Rand Corporation: $100,097 · Public BenefitThe Rand Co…ALTARUM INSTITUTE: $75,000 · Science & TechNational Eczema Association: $50,000 · Youth Development
Other$402,094Education$217,000Health$107,500Public Benefit$100,097Science & Tech$75,000Youth Development$50,000

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

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $25,000 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
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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Fdn 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 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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