Top 15 Charitable Companies

8. Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson’s humanitarian activities caused the company to give over $706 million in the year 2011 in cash and products out of the total pretax profit of $12,361,000,000.

Johnson & Johnson is a globally accepted American medical device, pharmaceutical and consumer packaged goods manufacturer founded in 1886. It is listed among the Fortune 500.

Johnson & Johnson has consistently been ranked at the top of Harris Interactive’s National Corporation Reputation Survey and was the first corporation awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award for Public Diplomacy by the U.S. State Department for its funding of international education programs.  

The corporation so far includes some 250 subsidiary companies with operations in over 57 countries and products sold in over 175 countries.  Johnson & Johnson had worldwide pharmaceutical sales of $65 billion as of 2011. Its brands include numerous household names of medications and first aid supplies. Its well-known consumer products include the Band-Aid Brand, Tylenol medications, Johnson's baby products, Neutrogena skin and beauty products, Clean and Clear facial wash and Axuvue contact lenses. The company in 2012 announced to fund the therapeutic device company Clarimedix to support "proof of concept" study.

7. Abbott Laboratories

In the year 2011 Abbott Laboratories gave $732 million in cash and products out its pretax profit of $5,198,642,000. There is an increase of 16.9 percent from previous years’ donations.

It is a Chicago-based global, multi-division pharmaceuticals and health care products company, with 90,000 employees and operating in over 130 countries. The company was founded by a Chicago physician, Dr. Wallace Calvin Abbott in 1888 and in 2010, Abbott could make over $35 billion revenue.

The company has a broad range of medical devices, diagnostics and immunoassay products as well as nutritional products, including Ensure, a line of meal replacement shakes, and EAS, the largest producer of performance based nutritional supplements.

Abbott also has a broad range of medical tests and diagnostic instrument systems which are used worldwide by hospitals, laboratories, blood banks, and physician offices to diagnose and monitor diseases such as HIV, hepatitis, cancer, heart failure and metabolic disorders, as well as assess other important indicators of general health. In 2011, the Science ranked Abbott among the Top 20 BioPharma employers.