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Pharmacy Technician Certification Board

Ptcb advances medication safety by credentialing technicians who are qualified to support pharmacists and patient care teams in all practice settings.

$5.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$820k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Health$23MEmployment$83kPublic Safety & Disaster$45k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $38k
  • $250k+6 grants · $4.9M
$820,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION$820,000
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY$820,000
AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS$820,000
ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS$820,000
MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION$820,000
NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION (NCPA)$820,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS$37,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MINNESOTA SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $9k → 11%PENNSYLVANIA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 12%CALIFORNIA PHARMACIST ASSOCIATION: $10k → 12%TEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $8k → 10%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 14%IOWA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $10k → 10%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 16%PHARMACY SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN: $8k → 10%OREGON STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATION: $7k → 8%TENNESSEE PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 14%INDIANA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 11%OHIO PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $8k → 15%WEST VIRGINIA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 18%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $820k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $820k → 15%NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS: $38k → 7%NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION (NCPA): $820k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $820k → 8%KENTUCKY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 14%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 14%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 16%CONNECTICUT SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $8k → 10%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $820k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $820k → 15%VIRGINIA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $10k → 7%NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION (NCPA): $820k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $820k → 8%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 14%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $820k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $820k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $820k → 15%NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $155k → 9%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMICISTS: $820k → 8%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 14%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $620k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $620k → 15%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMICISTS: $620k → 8%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 14%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $620k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $620k → 15%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMICISTS: $620k → 8%AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 14%MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION: $620k → 16%NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY: $620k → 14%ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS: $620k → 15%AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMICISTS: $620k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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HI
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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 7 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
17

Total granted

$23M
$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • MP
    MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +33% · 32% of their budget
  • IC
    ILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +35% · 64% of their budget
  • NA
    NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • IP
    INDIANA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +89%
  • KP
    KENTUCKY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -2%
  • NJ
    NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +44%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Minnesota Pharmacists Association

Serving minnesota pharmacists to advance patient care.

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2
American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy

Advance pharmacy education, research, scholarship, practice and service, in partnership with members and stakeholders, to improve health for all.

Health
3
Kansas Pharmacists Association

To preserve, protect and advance kansas pharmacy practice through education, engagement and advocacy.

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4
South Dakota Pharmacists Association

To represent the pharmacy profession. profession.

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5
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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6
Mississippi Pharmacists Association

Promote and safeguard the public health and welfare. foster interpersonal relations among all members of the health care professions. promote the professional and economic welfare of all pharmacists. support education and licensure to…

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7
Alliance for Pharmacy Compounding

To protect, promote and advance the art and science of pharmacy compounding.

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8
American Academy of Physician Associates Inc

To ensure the professional growth, personal excellence, and recognition of physician associates, and to support efforts to enable them to improve the quality, accessibility, and cost-effectiveness of patient-centered health care.

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Florida Pharmacy Association Inc

To support and encourage higher standards of pharmaceutical education at all levels of the profession in order to attract qualified personnel into the profession of pharmacy; to encourage and maintain relationships with all healthcare…

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10
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
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Georgia Pharmacy Association Inc

To promote and enhance the profession of pharmacy and the practice standards of its practitioners. Further, the Association shall endeavor to heighten the public's perception of the profession of pharmacy and pharmacists, and to promote…

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Missouri Pharmacy Association

Professional association

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Pharmacists Association and the most unlike its peers is Arkansas Association of Health-System Ph. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 81 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%9%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%61%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%18%20–35yr13%81%35–55yr16%1%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/25
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,540

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $4,320,000 · OtherMICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATIONILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS — $4,320,000 · OtherILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTSNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY — $4,320,000 · OtherNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACYAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP) — $4,320,000 · OtherAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP)AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $4,320,000 · OtherAMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATIONNATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $1,795,000 · OtherNATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION+18 more — $182,899 · OtherIowa Pharmacy Association — $15,000 · Health
Other$23,577,899Health$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMICHIGAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $4,320,000 over 6y, 32% of budgetILLINOIS COUNCIL OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS — $4,320,000 over 6y, 64% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BOARDS OF PHARMACY — $4,320,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS (ASHP) — $4,320,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $4,320,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $1,795,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF STATE PHARMACY ASSOCIATIONS INC — $37,500 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetIowa Pharmacy Association — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINDIANA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetKENTUCKY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWEST VIRGINIA PHARMACISTS ASSOC — $10,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetVIRGINIA PHARMACY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetArkansas Association of Health-System Ph — $9,650 over 1y, 11% of budgetMINNESOTA SOCIETY OF HEALTH-SYSTEM PHARMACISTS — $8,849 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTEXAS PHARMACY ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTENNESSEE PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHARMACY SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT SOCIETY OF HEALTH SYSTEM PHARMACISTS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetPennsylvania Pharmacists Association — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOHIO PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HAWAII PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetOREGON STATE PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION — $7,400 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetWashington State Pharmacy Association — $7,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Pharmaceutical Resear…
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Pharmacy Technician Certification Board funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (Ashp) — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

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How do I get to Pharmacy Technician Certification Board?

Find your warmest path to Pharmacy Technician Certification Board 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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