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United States Pharmacopeial Convention
Usp's mission is to improve global health through public standards and related programs that help ensure the quality, safety, and benefit of medicines and foods.
- $524k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $256k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $32,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 12
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $789M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations United States Pharmacopeial Convention funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $256k | 31% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $252k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $268k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $662k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $227k | 60% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $243k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $149k | 45% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $137k | 56% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Pharmacists Association Foundation | $798,037 | 5 | 14% |
| Association for Accessible Medicines | $212,700 | 6 | 0% |
| American Institute of the History of Pharmacy | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Corporate Council on Africa | $100,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Newark Mentoring Movement | $78,000 | 6 | 9% |
| BioHealth Innovation | $70,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Connected Dmv | $66,000 | 1 | 2% |
| American Foundation for Pharmaceutical Education | $63,750 | 4 | 3% |
| Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration Inc | $62,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Developmentexcom Inc | $60,000 | 1 | n/a |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget United States Pharmacopeial Convention supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · The Rockefeller Foundation · Consumer Healthcare Products Association · Association for Accessible Medicines · Gates Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About United States Pharmacopeial Convention
- How much does United States Pharmacopeial Convention give?
- United States Pharmacopeial Convention reported 17 itemized grants totaling $256,437, out of $523,834 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does United States Pharmacopeial Convention fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (72%), Science & Tech (6%), International (6%).
- Who are United States Pharmacopeial Convention's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American Pharmacists Association Foundation ($798k), Association for Accessible Medicines ($213k), American Institute of the History of Pharmacy ($200k).
- Does United States Pharmacopeial Convention fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as United States Pharmacopeial Convention?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, The Rockefeller Foundation, Consumer Healthcare Products Association.
- Where is United States Pharmacopeial Convention based?
- United States Pharmacopeial Convention is based in MD.
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