· Private foundation
The Pfizer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9203 grants · $6.1M
- $10k–50k72 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k17 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+14 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JHPIEGO | $4,000,000 |
| DIRECT RELIEF | $2,500,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $1,000,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $1,000,000 |
| LELEKA FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS | $500,000 |
| CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE INC | $500,000 |
| FUTURE FOR UKRAINE | $500,000 |
| WORLD VISION INC | $500,000 |
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $350,000 |
| RISE AGAINST HUNGER | $150,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $6.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The Pfizer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 28% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 23%.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
1634 repeat relationships: 1335 still active in FY2024, 299 since wound down; 41 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DIRECT RELIEF5× · 2020–2024 · $9.5M · revenue +20%- AHAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC4× · 2020–2024 · $8.1M · revenue +40% · 35% of their budget
- PPATH4× · 2021–2024 · $5.1M · revenue +3%
Funded once
- OPOTHER PROGRAM ACTIVITIESone grant, 2020 · $16M
- UHUKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +34% · 25% of their budget
- HRHEALTH RESEARCH INCone grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -31%
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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A higher educational institution, providing both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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Uniting communities to alleviate hunger.
Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Furman university is an institution of higher education providing distinctive undergraduate education emphasizing an engaged approach combining classroom learning with real world experiences and self-discovery.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To advance professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power.
How this is measured
1664 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. 1664 of the 2,000 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.
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE HOUSE DC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds LELEKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK NURSES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ARTHUR ASHE INSTITUTE FOR URBAN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BLACK WOMENS HEALTH PROJECT dba BLACK WOMENS HEALTH IMPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds SISTERS WORKING IT OUT ↗
- Who funds ESSIE B & WILLIAM EARL GLENN FOUNDATION FOR BETTER LIVING ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE BREAST NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC ↗
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: Tyler-Little Family Foundation · Dorothy U Dalton Foundation Inc · The Burdick-Thorne Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Suzanne Upjohn Delano Parish Foundation · H P & Genevieve Connable Fund · Mike and Sharon Seelye Family Foundation · Marvin and Rosalie Okun Foundation · Preston S and Barbara J Parish Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Molitor Family Foundation · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pfizer Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pfizer Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jhpiego Corporation: 65% of income from government
- Association of Immunization Managers: 52% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc: 15% of income from government
- National Association of Community Health Centers Inc: 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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