Washington, D.C. · Nonprofit
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,874,796 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,536,476). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $21M
- Funders on record
- 212
- Grants received
- $16M
- Net assets
- $12M
What Physicians Committee for Responsible Med does
Mission
The Physicians Committee promotes preventive medicine, particularly good nutrition, conducts clinical research, and encourages higher standards for ethics and effectiveness in research.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
CommunicationsWorking with physicians, health experts, and celebrities who serve as spokespeople, we inform, persuade, and inspire readers through strategic media relations, social media, digital communications, print publications, and advertisements. Our work was featured in traditional news outlets including Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Baltimore Sun, BBC, Detroit News, New York Post, Oregonian, Sun Sentinel, STAT, ABC News, NBC News, Fox News, Science, MedicalXpress, Everyday Health, Womans World, MedPage Today, Science Magazine, Economic Times, and many more. Our doctor-authored op-eds have been published in major newspapers including Colorado Newsline, Detroit News, Cal Matters, Med Central, Med Page Today, Oregonian, and Utah News Dispatch. Print and online news coverage generated 3,024 news articles and an average of 6.57 million unique visitors per month. Our social media content created conversations daily among more than 1.4 million followers on 21 social media accounts. In FY 2025, 20.7 million accounts were reached across Meta platforms and X. YouTube's following grew to 491.3K, up 22K subscribers from the previous year, and our videos were viewed 4.3…
$5,485,308 spentof which $45,000 as grants29% of program spendingResearch and Regulatory Affairs The Physicians Committee advances human-specific, nonanimal approaches in research, testing, and education through scientific support, policy change, training, and outreach. In fiscal year 2025, our scientists worked to overcome barriers to adoption of nonanimal methods by providing input to federal agencies through responses to Federal Register requests and presentations at agency meetings. We continue to lead a multi-institutional collaboration to document and reduce bias favoring animal use and to promote human-relevant approaches. To expand training, we provided direct instruction to agency staff, continuing education courses, and a regulatory program on nonanimal methods. We also supported scientific society webinars, reaching more than 6,000 scientists live, with many more accessing recordings. Our biennial Summer Immersion training program received the inaugural NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences education and training prize. Recognizing the need for global access, we launched a toxicology training program conducted fully in Spanish and expanded access to recorded trainings with subtitles in multiple languages. Our team…
$5,042,869 spent$57 earned by the program27% of program spendingNutrition Education Nutrition experts grew a variety of educational programs to promote plant-based diets for health. To educate clinicians, the Nutrition Guide for Clinicians, a diagnostic and treatment mobile application, reached 6,165 new users, with nearly 80,000 users to date. NutritionCME.org reached 1,373 health care professionals through online courses, and we reached 706 medical students through our medical school lunch-and-learn program. The clinician referral network brought in 40 new providers, for a total of 590 worldwide, and we added 20 new dietitians for a total of 91 preferred dietitians in our network. The Lets Beat Breast Cancer campaign grew to 58 events earning coverage in 75 media outlets with a reach of 83.8 million. The bilingual 21-Day Vegan Kickstart mobile application reached 36,000 people with menus, recipes, education, and cooking videos to support individuals transitioning to a plant-based diet. Our trilingual One Healthy World program reached 398,041 people across the world in English, French, and Spanish languages. In India we reached 5,330 students through lectures at 26 medical, nursing, and culinary schools. In China, we reached more than 1.02…
$4,774,289 spentof which $66,539 as grants$448,747 earned by the program25% of program spendingClinical Research We design and conduct clinical health and nutrition research studies, with the goal of bringing more attention to nutrition and prevention among health care professionals, medical researchers, policymakers, and patients. Our team members published 12 papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented the research at the American Diabetes Associations Scientific Sessions and at the International Symposium on Diabetes and Nutrition of the Diabetes and Nutrition Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes. In collaboration with Yale University, we are continuing a clinical trial that tests the effects of a vegan diet on liver and muscle fat in people with type 2 diabetes. We are also continuing a study in partnership with Blue Cross Blue Shield, tracking not only clinical outcomes, such as body weight and glycemic control, but also health care expenditures in people with type 2 diabetes. Our goal is to build upon the body of knowledge of the value of plant-based diets and generate wider acceptance, among the medical and scientific communities, policymakers, and the press, of the power of plant-based diets to prevent and treat disease.
$2,113,394 spent11% of program spendingEducation and Policy We lead advocacy efforts to expand the adoption and availability of plant-based diets. We advocate in Congress to end the inequitable statutory barriers that prevent students from accessing nondairy milks at schools, increase the availability of plant-based school meals, and push back against the dairy industrys efforts to force schools to serve dairy. We empower physicians, clinicians, and students to ensure their voices are heard on the need for better nutrition. We advocate to revise the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) to end its unnecessary promotion of meat and dairy and to instead promote healthy plant-based diets. We work alongside Native American tribal governments to ensure federal agencies consult with tribes regarding the DGA and that indigenous plant-based foods are incorporated. At the state level, we advocate for wider availability of plant-based foods in schools and other institutions. We also advocate at the federal and state level to encourage the funding, development, and implementation of human-relevant, nonanimal methods in medical research, education, and product testing. We consult federal agencies on their initiatives to reduce…
$842,746 spentof which $21,479 as grants$58,120 earned by the program4% of program spendingLegal Advocacy Through litigation and petitions, we promote better health and ethical research practices. In California, the District of Columbia, Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Texas, we litigated on open government, First Amendment, and consumer protection grounds to raise public awareness about unethical experiments carried out on animals at large institutions. We submitted amicus briefs in nutrition cases and continued our litigation against the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment for violating state law by refusing to designate processed meat as a carcinogen, despite designation as such by the World Health Organization.
$725,176 spent4% of program spending
The 6 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $18,983,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $16M to $30M (+88%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of Physicians Committee for Responsible Med’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (7% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Mindy Kursban ESQ
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 96 funders, grant income rose $710k → $3.0M.
48 of 212 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 67% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $2.5M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest The PCRM Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money Physicians Committee for Responsible Med raised.
From the IRS filings of Physicians Committee for Responsible Med’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 212 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
68% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Physicians Committee for Responsible Med.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 22% · 2019 35% · 2020 33% · 2021 18% · 2022 22% · 2023 20% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
50% of Physicians Committee for Responsible Med's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
67% of Physicians Committee for Responsible Med's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $5.2M that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Washington, D.C., across 34 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $11M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
Physicians Committee for Responsible Med holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,969 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,969 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2025
Organizations like Physicians Committee for Responsible Med
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington, D.C.
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
94%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 25 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- The PCRM Foundation · exempt
- PCRM Clinic dba Barnard Medical Center · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for Physicians Committee for Responsible Med: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med?
- Physicians Committee for Responsible Med (Washington, D.C.) receives grants from 212 organizations whose IRS filings report $15,874,796 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($2,536,476). 132 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 67% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Physicians Committee for Responsible Med have?
- IRS filings report 212 organizations giving $15,874,796 in grants to Physicians Committee for Responsible Med, 132 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Med?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $2,536,476 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Physicians Committee for Responsible Med find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington, D.C.. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2019–2025), and the filings of 212 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing