Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation
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About Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation
The Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation primarily provides direct access to prescription medicines by donating medical products to individual patients. Its grants are delivered as high-value, in-kind medication support rather than traditional grants to organizations, indicating a focus on removing financial barriers to essential specialty drugs for uninsured or underinsured patients.
Focus Areas
Direct patient assistance for prescription medicationsAccess to specialty and high-cost drugs for uninsured or underinsured individualsIn-kind medical product donations to individual beneficiaries
Who They Fund
healthcare facilities (clinics/hospitals)patients/individuals requiring medical productshumanitarian/emergency response recipients
Giving Approach
Extremely concentrated, with very large in-kind medical product donations recorded as a small number of high-dollar transactions to individual beneficiaries rather than many grants to organizations; repeat/ongoing product support model.
Funding Style
About Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation
Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation Inc centers its giving on one activity: donating Novartis medications at no cost to eligible patients who cannot afford them. The foundation’s recent grants are not organization awards in the usual sense; they are medical product donations delivered directly to individuals in East Hanover, NJ. The largest recent grant listed was $3,097,009,871 in 2025 to Various Individuals for medical product donation, with similarly large awards in 2024 and 2023, showing a sustained pattern of in-kind patient support. Through its Patient Assistance Program, the foundation provides certain Novartis medicines to U.S. patients who meet income and insurance criteria, including people with uninsured or government insurance coverage. This makes the foundation a direct-access mechanism for prescription treatment rather than a conventional grantmaker to charities. Its beneficiary profile is centered on patients and individuals requiring medical products, with the listed recent grants all going to various individuals in the United States.
What Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation Funds
A central theme in the foundation’s work is medication access for patients who cannot pay for Novartis treatment. The Patient Assistance Program provides certain Novartis medications at no cost to eligible U.S. patients, including people who are uninsured or have government insurance and who meet income and other criteria. Another clear theme is direct support for outpatient treatment: the program is designed to help individuals continue prescribed therapy rather than fund institutional services. The foundation also operates through medical product donation, which is reflected in grants to Various Individuals for medical product donation in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Its stated geography includes the United States and U.S. territories.
How Novartis Patient Assistance Foundation Gives
The typical grant size is extremely high and tightly clustered: p25 is $2,871,233,973, the median is $2,871,408,726, and p75 is $2,871,583,478. That narrow spread suggests a highly standardized grantmaking pattern. The foundation’s recent grants also show recurrence across multiple years, with medical product donations recorded in 2023, 2024, and 2025. It is a regular funder and funds individuals directly rather than operating as a DAF or making program-related investments. The active program accepts unsolicited requests, and the program description ties eligibility to income, insurance status, and other criteria.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$8.8B
Total Assets
$382.9M
Total Revenue
$3.4B
Total Expenses
$3.2B
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $2.9B and $2.9B, with a median of $2.9B.
25th Percentile
$2.9B
Median
$2.9B
75th Percentile
$2.9B
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 100% of grants go to recipients in NJ.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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