Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation
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About Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation
The AbbVie Patient Assistance Foundation concentrates almost all of its funding on direct patient pharmaceutical assistance, providing prescription medicines at no charge to eligible individuals. Its recorded grants are two very large, program-specific disbursements to lists of eligible individuals, indicating an operational focus on patient access to medications rather than general philanthropic causes. There is no evidence of place-based or diverse sector giving—funding is tightly focused on medication assistance and related patient supports.
Who They Fund
eligible individuals (unspecified)
Giving Approach
Very large, aggregated program disbursements to lists of eligible individuals (few grants representing many individual beneficiaries)
Funding Style
direct service deliveryin-kind service provisionservice subsidy/fee elimination
Notable grantees: 83839 ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS LIST AVA, 51261 ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS LIST AVA
Topics
pharmaceutical caremedication access and distribution
About Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation
Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation’s recorded grantmaking is almost entirely centered on one activity: providing pharmaceutical care at no charge to eligible individuals. The two largest recent grants, totaling more than $964 million across 2023 and 2024, went to eligible-individual lists for that purpose, showing a funding model built around direct medication access rather than broad discretionary philanthropy. That focus makes the foundation unusual among grantmakers because its largest recorded awards are not to nonprofit programs or institutions, but to patient lists tied to prescription support. In 2024, it gave $610,336,691 to the 83839 Eligible Individuals List Ava in Wisconsin; in 2023, it gave $353,952,408 to the 51261 Eligible Individuals List Ava, also in Wisconsin. Those awards point to a highly operational structure in which grant dollars are used to subsidize medicine directly. The foundation’s public programs also include patient assistance and educational or research grant channels, but the grant record provided here is dominated by direct patient pharmaceutical support.
What Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation Funds
The clearest theme in the record is medication access. In 2024, Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation granted $610,336,691 to the 83839 Eligible Individuals List Ava for providing pharmaceutical care at no charge to eligible individuals. A year earlier, it gave $353,952,408 to the 51261 Eligible Individuals List Ava for the same purpose. Beyond that core patient-assistance pattern, the foundation’s active programs point to other health-related funding lanes. It offers Independent Educational Grants for third-party educational activities in medical, health, and professional education. It also lists an Investigator-Initiated Studies program for external clinical studies, indicating some support for research led by outside investigators. The AbbVie Foundation Grants program extends into community development, education, health system strengthening, and disaster relief.
How Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation Gives
The distribution of recent grant sizes is extremely large: p25 is $418,048,479, the median is $482,144,550, and p75 is $546,240,620. The record shows only two recent grants, both in back-to-back years, which suggests repeated support rather than a one-off payment. Abbvie Patient Assistance Foundation is classified as a regular funder, not a DAF, and it does not fund individuals in the usual philanthropic sense; the grants listed are tied to patient-access lists. The grant record provided does not show an application process for these patient-assistance disbursements. Its active programs do include some unsolicited channels, such as Independent Educational Grants, Investigator-Initiated Studies, and myAbbVie Assist.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$964.3M
Total Assets
$49.9M
Total Revenue
$619.1M
Total Expenses
$610.4M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $418M and $546.2M, with a median of $482.1M.
25th Percentile
$418M
Median
$482.1M
75th Percentile
$546.2M
Geographic Reach
Local1 state funded
About 0% of grants go to recipients in WI.
Funding intensity
LowHigh
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