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Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.

$20M
Granted FY2025still arriving
58
Grants FY2025still arriving
25
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$145MEducation$374k
02FY2025 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 58 grants below total $19,139,805, the rows itemized in this filing. The $20,453,326 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,313,521 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $149k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $4.7M
  • $250k+17 grants · $14M
$190,000
Median grant
25
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA$2,317,893
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$2,247,336
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO$1,925,178
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,474,202
BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE$1,415,468
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVERANSCHUTZ MEDICAL CAMPUS$747,000
THE REGENT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$660,462
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$551,972
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES$416,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER (UT SOUTHWESTERN)$376,000
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY$357,095
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PERELMAN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$330,000
CITY OF HOPE$325,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING INSTITUTE FOR CANCER RESEARCH$319,807
DUKE UNIVERSITY$283,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $743k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CASES FOR SMILES: $33k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $106k → 6%CASES FOR SMILES: $33k → 19%MOMCOLOGY: $100k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $100k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $100k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $100k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $100k → 6%MOMCOLOGY: $70k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$132M · 93 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +59% for those funded once.

93 repeat relationships: 46 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

93
38

Total granted

$132M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+59%

Still filing today

61%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsMembership BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +88%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $15M · revenue +162%
  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicine
    9× · 2017–2025 · $9.6M · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2022 · $697k
  • MU
    MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA
    one grant, 2023 · $200k
  • PS
    PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $125k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
3
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
4
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
7
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
8
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
9
University of Chicago Medical Center

Our mission at the university of chicago medicine is to provide superior health care through rigorous research, innovative education, and comprehensive care and healing. in partnership with our colleagues, we pursue life-changing…

Health
10
Children's Health Care

We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.

Health
11
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
12
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City of Hope; the most unlike its peers is Tap Cancer Out Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

95 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 95 of the 146 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/95
Grantees still filing
82/95
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,726,432 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIADana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,042,217 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,261,887 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,255,537 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,598,100 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,325,511 · Health+40 more: $8,845,419 · Health+40 moreBaylor College of Medicine: $9,596,622 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,641,338 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,564,708 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LE…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,297,748 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF P…WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,272,430 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,609,492 · EducationEmory University: $1,598,986 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,592,292 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,546,500 · EducationNew York University: $1,381,881 · Education+25 more: $10,736,309 · Education+25 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $8,139,388 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN F…NATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL INC: $3,189,352 · OtherNATIONWIDE CHILDRENS HOSPITAL …THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $2,260,002 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHW…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $2,173,512 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF M…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $1,958,461 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA: $1,578,233 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,333,425 · Other+53 more: $18,729,470 · Other+53 moreMOMCOLOGY: $676,000 · Human ServicesRYAN'S CASE FOR SMILES: $66,666 · Human ServicesNorthwestern University: $275,000 · Recreation & SportsTap Cancer Out Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsCUREFEST INC: $50,000 · Membership Benefit
Health$64,055,103Education$40,838,306Other$39,361,843Human Services$742,666Recreation & Sports$300,000Membership Benefit$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $17,726,432 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,042,217 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $9,596,622 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $9,261,887 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,255,537 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $4,641,338 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,564,708 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,598,100 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $2,325,511 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,297,748 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,272,430 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,609,492 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetEmory University: $1,598,986 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,592,292 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,546,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University: $1,381,881 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1,333,425 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago: $1,136,636 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,081,902 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCITY OF HOPE: $1,075,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION: $975,142 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $952,568 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $886,277 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $811,601 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC: $745,600 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $723,678 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetVanderbilt University: $712,170 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOMCOLOGY: $676,000 over 7y, 38% of budgetCHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $666,731 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER: $627,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle Children's Foundation: $618,310 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: $567,960 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEMOURS FOUNDATION: $565,543 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $563,591 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAnn & Robert H Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago: $514,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE: $505,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlbert Einstein College of Medicine: $435,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University: $423,420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $405,923 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $355,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $324,413 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado: $312,304 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $288,901 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Colorado Foundation: $280,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $275,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: $265,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $263,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AUGUSTA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds University of Chicago ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds CITY OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds The George Washington University ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Vanderbilt University…Cystic Fibrosis Found…American Heart Associ…St Baldrick's Foundat…The Children's Hospit…Yale UniversityAmerican Cancer Socie…Mayo ClinicJohns Hopkins Univers…Public Health Institu…Muscular Dystrophy As…Washington University
Vanderbilt University Medical CenterTN33.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Cystic Fibrosis Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · St Baldrick's Foundation Inc · The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia · Yale University · American Cancer Society Inc · Mayo Clinic · Johns Hopkins University · Public Health Institute · Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc · Washington University

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute: 44% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • The Nemours Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Orlando Health Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 146 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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