PhRMA Foundation
The pharmaceutical industry's investment in the scientists it will one day need, created in 1965 in the wake of the thalidomide tragedy, which pays for the first independent research of graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and new faculty in the disciplines that make medicines, and never for any one medicine.
Financial profile
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Foundation Inc · EIN 52-6063009 · 501(c)(3)
| Fiscal year | Total revenue | Contributions | Program services | Total expenses | Net assets | Year end |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025 | $4,902,599 | $2,829,510 | $0 | $5,201,229 | $27,283,863 | Dec 2025 |
| FY2024 | $4,293,133 | $3,705,380 | $0 | $4,981,861 | $26,027,434 | Dec 2024 |
| FY2023 | $4,244,730 | $3,576,216 | $0 | $4,366,003 | $24,076,788 | Dec 2023 |
| FY2022 | $3,902,642 | $3,535,607 | $0 | $4,077,991 | $21,320,091 | Dec 2022 |
| FY2021 | $3,693,166 | $2,764,822 | $0 | $4,358,423 | $26,058,271 | Dec 2021 |
| FY2020 | $5,133,283 | $3,937,859 | $0 | $4,843,015 | $24,423,854 | Dec 2020 |
Figures exactly as reported. A blank cell was blank on the form. The fiscal year links to the filing.
Peer societies
Five societies PhRMA Foundation is read alongside.
BWF
Burroughs Wellcome Fund
An independent biomedical foundation that backs scientists at pivotal career transitions and funds discovery…
HHWF
Helen Hay Whitney Foundation
A biomedical research foundation that since 1947 has given early-career postdoctoral scientists independent…
1 companies named
JCCMF
Jane Coffin Childs Memorial Fund for Medical Research
A memorial fund staking early scientific careers on fundamental discovery
1 companies named
AFAR
American Federation for Aging Research
The patient patron of a young science, the grantmaker that has spent four decades funding the researchers who…
3 companies named
AJRF
Albert J. Ryan Foundation
An endowed foundation that funds doctoral fellowships for promising young biomedical and molecular science…
Who backs PhRMA Foundation
Every company PhRMA Foundation names publicly as a supporter, exactly as published. Companies also named by other associations on Sociogene come first.
| Company | Support as published | Also named by |
|---|---|---|
| AstraZeneca | Foundation donor | AMCP AAAAI AAFP AAN AAPA +3 |
| Bristol Myers Squibb | Foundation donor | AMCP ARM AAD AAN AAPMR +3 |
| Daiichi SankyoPublished as Daiichi-Sankyo (logo) | Foundation donor | AACR ACS AOSSM ASRO ASCO +3 |
| Eli Lilly and Company | Foundation donor | AcademyHealth AAP ASCP DIA GAFP +3 |
| Genentech | Foundation donor | AMCP AcademyHealth AAAAI AAFP AAN +3 |
| Gilead Sciences | Foundation donor | AMCP AAPA AASLD ACG ACOG +3 |
| Johnson & Johnson | Foundation donor | AMCP AcademyHealth ACS AEE AAD +3 |
| LundbeckPublished as Lundbeck (logo) | Foundation donor | AAN AES AHS APA HBA +3 |
| Merck | Foundation donor | AcademyHealth AEE AAFP AAO AAP +3 |
| Novartis | Foundation donor | ADLM AAD AAN AACR AANEM +3 |
| Pfizer | Foundation donor | AEE ASCA AAD AAFP AAN +3 |
| Sanofi | Foundation donor | A1F AMCP AAAAI AAD AAFP +3 |
| TakedaPublished as Takeda Pharmaceuticals | Foundation donor | A1F AND AAAAI AAD AAFP +3 |
| UCB | Foundation donor | AAD AAN AANEM AANN ACNS +3 |
Sources: 2 published lists, read October 2026
2025 Annual Report: Supporters. Read October 16, 2026. Companies shown as supporters in the 2025 Annual Report.
PhRMA Foundation Launches Initiative to Strengthen America's Future Scientific Workforce: supporters. Read October 16, 2026. Companies named as supporters of the Foundation's grantmaking in its October 2026 expansion announcement.
Who backs PhRMA Foundation's peers, but not PhRMA Foundation
Companies named publicly by at least one of PhRMA Foundation's five peer societies, and not found in PhRMA Foundation's reviewed public records.
| Company | AFAR | Peers |
|---|---|---|
| Life BiosciencesPublished as Life Biosciences 2 C | Named | 1 of 1 |
The outside view
The pharmaceutical industry's investment in the scientists it will one day need, created in 1965 in the wake of the thalidomide tragedy, which pays for the first independent research of graduate students, postdoctoral trainees and new faculty in the disciplines that make medicines, and never for any one medicine.
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The Guild
Where mastery is the price of belonging.
The Guild is the keeper of a craft and its standards, where belonging means meeting a real bar. Its gift is depth and trusted expertise, its challenge is opening up to newcomers and new ways.
Also reads toward The Frontier and The League.
Strengths
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