About Cardinal Health Foundation
Cardinal Health Foundation concentrates its giving on expanding access to health care services for vulnerable populations, with a clear emphasis on supporting charitable clinics and prescription access programs. Their single large grant to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics suggests priority funding for infrastructure and programs that increase medication access and clinic capacity nationwide. The foundation appears mission-aligned with health-care delivery and safety-net organizations rather than broad philanthropic diversification.
Focus Areas
Support for free and charitable clinics (national network level)Access to prescription medications / medication assistance programsStrengthening safety-net healthcare infrastructure
Who They Fund
Central Ohio communities / place-based populationsindividuals experiencing food insecuritypeople with behavioral health needs / at risk of suicidepatients served by charitable clinics / pharmacy clientsstudents / scholarship recipients
About Cardinal Health Foundation
A $500,000 grant to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics anchored Cardinal Health Foundation’s recent giving and points to its core interest in access to care for vulnerable patients. The foundation also backs clinic networks and medication-access work through grants to Charitable Healthcare Network and Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine (Sirum), showing a practical focus on the systems that help patients obtain care and prescriptions. Its giving also reaches Central Ohio health organizations, including Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation, American Heart Association, Pelotonia, and Community Shelter Board, which indicates a strong place-based layer alongside its national health mission. Separate grantmaking supports employee engagement, matching gifts, scholarships, disaster relief, and behavioral health, but the clearest throughline is health-care access. The recent grants show a mix of large program grants and smaller employee-engagement awards, with recurring support for some organizations across multiple years. Overall, the foundation funds safety-net providers, health education, and community health programs rather than a broad set of unrelated causes.
What Cardinal Health Foundation Funds
Cardinal Health Foundation’s most visible cause area is free and charitable clinics. It gave $500,000 to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics for ACCESS RX\CHARITABLE CLINICS and $250,000 to Charitable Healthcare Network for the same purpose. Medication access also appears in a $250,000 grant to Supporting Initiatives to Redistribute Unused Medicine - Sirum for ACCESS RX\CHARITABLE CLINICS. In Central Ohio, the foundation supported Community Shelter Board with $100,000 for CARDINAL HEALTH COMMUNITIES\CENTRAL OHIO, and made $262,500 grants to Nationwide Children’s Hospital Foundation in both 2024 and 2025 for the same community program. Behavioral health is another recurring area, including $214,000 to National Association of Childrens Hospital and Related Institutions for BEHAVIORAL HEALTH and later support for MENTAL HEALTH\ZERO SUICIDE PARTNERS.
How Cardinal Health Foundation Gives
Typical grant size is tightly clustered at the low end, with a p25 of $3,500 and a median of $3,500; the p75 rises to $34,509. The recent record also shows repeated awards to the same organizations over multiple years, including annual support for some Central Ohio and behavioral health partners. That pattern suggests a mix of recurring program funding and one-off awards, rather than purely transactional giving. Cardinal Health Foundation is a private foundation-like corporate foundation structure, not an individual-giving vehicle, and it does not make program-related investments. Several grants are explicitly program-restricted, and employee-engagement funding appears as a separate internal channel alongside mission grants.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$6M
Total Assets
$61.8M
Total Revenue
$9.4M
Total Expenses
$6.6M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $4K and $35K, with a median of $4K.
25th Percentile
$4K
Median
$4K
75th Percentile
$35K
Geographic Reach
Regional33 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Where Cardinal Health Foundation Funds
Top 2 recipient countries by grant volume for Cardinal Health Foundation.
| Rank | Country | Grants | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | United StatesDomestic | 671 | $16.5M | 99.8% |
| 2 | Puerto Rico |
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