NCPDP Foundation
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 462161880
- IRS 990-PF coverage
- 2025–2025
- Official website data refreshed
- Sep 2026
- Forms available
- Form 990 2024, Form 990-PF 2025, Form 990-N 2013
- Location
- Scottsdale, AZ, USA
- Phone
- 480.477.1000
- Rating
- 20
- Verdict
- REVIEW
- Rating confidence
- Moderate
- Sector
- Scholarships, Student Financial Aid Services, Awards
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $3,773,777
- Expenses
- $622,598
Source: IRS Form 990-PF. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Overview
Mission
To collaborate with organizations and individuals to support research initiatives that improve data sharing throughout the healthcare ecosystem, removing obstacles to quality care for patients. Through grant-giving and strategic partnerships, we seek to: Encourage the implementation of healthcare information technologies that empower pharmacists and providers to expand their roles to meet the healthcare needs of today and prepare us for the demands of the future. Explore how NCPDP standards with the potential to improve in-workflow processes and enhance interoperability can be implemented. Drive better patient outcomes through the optimization of medication management and the provision of prevention and wellness services in an equitable manner, ensuring the broadest access to care.
The NCPDP Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit charitable organization headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona, that funds research to transform how pharmacists, healthcare providers, and payers communicate through standards-based health information technology. By driving increased use of HIT standards and improving pharmacy interoperability, the Foundation helps build frameworks for safer healthcare and improved patient outcomes nationwide. Its strategic initiatives focus on enhancing patient safety, expanding the role and value of the pharmacist, and increasing patient access to care. The Foundation collaborates with organizations and individuals to support research initiatives that improve data sharing throughout the healthcare ecosystem, removing obstacles to quality care for patients.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 62% of the foundation's positive operating resources came from contributions.
- Distribution model
- No current program activity. The filing reports no charitable disbursements for the current year.
The verdict
REVIEW - The filed numbers largely add up. A relatively small share of available resources goes to charitable grants and a relatively small share of spending goes to grants.
Rating breakdown
- Grant Deployment: 0
- Cost Efficiency: 0
- Transparency: 0
- Compliance: 98
- Endowment Health: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Grant Deployment
- Grant deployment ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 1st percentile among comparable filings
Cost Efficiency
- Grant expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0; 2nd percentile among comparable filings
Transparency
- Grant recipient disclosure: Scored; rating input score 0
Compliance
- Part VII-B activity disclosures: 18 of 19 controls in place; rating input score 95
- Property sale or exchange with a disqualified person: Pass
- Borrowing from or lending to a disqualified person: Pass
- Goods, services, or facilities involving a disqualified person: Pass
- Compensation paid to a disqualified person: Pass
- Assets transferred to a disqualified person: Pass
- Payment to a government official: Pass
- Uncorrected prior self-dealing: Missing
- Prior-year undistributed income: Pass
- Excess business holdings: Pass
- Investments that may jeopardize charitable purposes: Pass
- Uncorrected prior-year jeopardizing investments: Pass
- Attempt to influence legislation: Pass
- Attempt to influence an election: Pass
- Grants to individuals: Pass
- Grants to organizations: Pass
- Spending for a noncharitable purpose: Pass
- Funds received for a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Premiums paid on a personal-benefit contract: Pass
- Prohibited tax-shelter transaction: Pass
- Filing consistency checks: 10; rating input score 100
Endowment Health
- Endowment-health comparison: Limited
Details
- What they fund: 4 programs and campaigns described on the official site
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Payout: At most 0% grant deployment rate
- Trustees: Filed trustees detail
- Self-dealing: 100% of reviewed questions answered “No”
- Investments: Filed investments detail
- Consistency: 10 of 10 current checks pass
- Schedules: 1 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Money network: 1 filed money-flow record
- Related organizations: 1 filed related-organization link
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.
Key Signals
Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.
- High — Grant Deployment: Grant deployment ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Cost Efficiency: Grant expense ratio scored 0/100.
- High — Transparency: Grant recipient disclosure scored 0/100.