Virginia · Nonprofit
PQA Inc
PQA Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $117,985 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION ($117,985). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $7.3M
- Funders on record
- 1
- Grants received
- $118k
- Net assets
- $18M
What PQA Inc does
Mission
Optimizing health by advancing the quality of medication use.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Quality Measurement - PQA is a developer and steward of medication-use quality measures focused on medication safety, adherence, and appropriate use. Through a transparent, consensus-based process, PQA develops, tests, refines, and maintains measures that address gaps in priority areas and support national quality goals. PQA quality measures are used in CMS quality programs, including Medicare Part D, the Health Insurance Marketplace, and Medicaid. More than 150 million people are enrolled in health plans that report PQA measure results, making them among the most impactful tools for optimizing medication therapy, driving positive impacts for patients, and substantial costs avoided for the health care system as a whole.
$2,470,109 spent$2,381,208 earned by the program40% of program spendingResearch - The PQA Quality Innovation and Research Center (QuIRC) advances the science of medication-use quality through research, innovation, and collaboration. QuIRC develops next-generation quality measures and tools, identifies opportunities to improve medication use and management, and supports effective measure implementation through pilot projects, demonstration programs, research initiatives, and consensus-building activities. By bringing together key stakeholders, QuIRC helps address complex challenges and improve patient outcomes. In 2025, PQA's research initiatives advanced efforts to identify methodologies for evaluating adherence and persistence to oral anticancer medications; identified strategies to improve the quality of medication therapy management (MTM); and piloted pharmacy-based immunization measure concepts in value-based arrangements.
$1,203,861 spent20% of program spendingEducation and Convening - PQA advances healthcare quality through education and convening programs that promote the use and impact of quality measures and improve medication use. PQA provides continuing education, conferences, leadership forums, and other learning opportunities for healthcare professionals and quality leaders focused on medication use quality, measure implementation, and health care innovation. More than 680 people participated in PQA meetings and events in 2025.
$2,425,931 spent$986,585 earned by the program40% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $6,099,901.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 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 2023 to 2024, from $11M to $23M (+99%).
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: 2020 7% · 2021 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of PQA Inc’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (51% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 9 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.
Chief executive
Micah Cost
Chief Executive Officer
Board chair
Jim Kirby
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2020 and FY2021 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $17k → $18k.
From the IRS filings of PQA Inc’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
PQA Inc draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Virginia, across 1 state in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. 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
PQA Inc's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 5,002 health nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PQA Inc
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 Virginia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
85%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PQA Inc: 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 PQA Inc?
- PQA Inc (Virginia) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $117,985 to it, the largest being AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION ($117,985). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PQA Inc have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $117,985 in grants to PQA Inc, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PQA Inc?
- AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION is the largest funder on record, with $117,985 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PQA Inc find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Virginia. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 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