Cencora Impact Foundation

The Cencora Impact Foundation is an independent, not-for-profit charitable giving organization, established by Cencora, Inc.

Our mission

The Foundation’s mission is to improve the health and well-being of patient populations — both human and animal — by partnering with organizations to expand access to healthcare around the world.

Making healthcare more accessible for all

Through partnerships, projects, and grants, we work together with nonprofit organizations around the world to ensure people and animals have a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Our funding strategy focuses on three key areas:

Human health

Supporting access to healthcare for underserved populations around the globe

Animal health

Improving the health of service, companion, and production animals that support humans

Prescription drug safety

Combating prescription drug misuse through safe disposal, innovative solutions, and mental health support

Expanding our impact globally

$6.4+ million
donated to our nonprofit partners in fiscal year 2024

Nonprofit partner spotlight

DKMS

The Cencora Impact Foundation’s international nonprofit partner, DKMS, is dedicated to saving the lives of patients with blood cancer and other blood disorders. DKMS recruits potential bone marrow and blood stem cell donors to give patients a second chance at life. They provide access to transplantation to people in low- and middle-income countries and improve therapies through research. In FY23 and FY24, the Cencora Impact Foundation provided grant funding to DKMS to advance our joint mission of saving lives. Both grants supported lifesaving blood stem cell transplant access for patients in India.

Fighting childhood cancer with Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation

Explore how Cencora team members and the Cencora Impact Foundation come together to support the crucial mission of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, a nonprofit organization changing the lives of children with cancer by funding critical research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.

Learn more about our partnership

A dozen Cencora volunteers packing emergency supplies into red canvas bags inside a warehouse. A banner on the wall behind them reads: “Our Purpose. We are united in our responsibility to create healthier futures.”

Helping communities in times of need

Cencora, the Cencora Impact Foundation, and all our team members are united in our purpose, and that is clearest when disaster strikes. We act quickly to support relief efforts and work together to get people back on their feet again as soon as possible.

In the aftermath of natural and human-caused crises, the Cencora Impact Foundation aims to provide supplementary funds that enable communities to rebuild, enact preventative measures, and remain resilient. In FY24, the Foundation donated more than $1 million in proactive and reactive disaster response grants to nonprofit partners aiding those impacted around the world, including in Brazil, Central Europe, and the southeastern U.S. This included a 200 percent increase compared to FY23 in reactive donations related to water-related storms including hurricanes and floods.

Our approach to disaster relief goes much deeper than rapid response efforts alone. We also have a robust grantmaking process that includes proactive support to our strategic emergency response partners, including Americares, Direct Relief, and more.

Empowering our people

We believe in supporting Cencora team members who generously contribute their time and money to the causes that matter most to them. Together with our team members, we donated more than $1.6 million to various charitable organizations around the world in FY24.

100% match

on qualifying team member donations

$1,500

donation for 40 hours of volunteering

$1.6M+

donated together in FY24