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Alliance for Aging Research

The ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH is the leading nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the narrative to achieve healthy aging and equitable access to care.

$48k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
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$232k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $47,977 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,977 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.
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH$15,000
HEALTHYWOMEN$10,000
NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 37% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LUMIND IDSC: $25k → 8%UC SAN DIEGO CENTER FOR HEALTHY AGING: $15k → 11%ASSOCIATION OF BLACK CARDIOLOGISTS: $10k → 17%AMERICAN COLLEGE OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE: $25k → 14%NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $10k → 14%RESEARCH AMERICA: $10k → 7%NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH: $15k → 8%CHPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $10k → 14%BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $10k → 14%BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $20k → 8%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: $10k → 8%HEALTHYWOMEN: $10k → 8%HEALTHYWOMEN: $10k → 8%HEALTHYWOMEN: $10k → 8%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.
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$126k · 4 repeat orgs$106k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +82% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$126k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+82%
+24%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’22’23’24’25
HealthCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • BF
    BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · $36k · revenue +82%
  • NS
    NATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +206%
  • NW
    NATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • LI
    LuMind IDSC Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +1%
  • AC
    American College of Preventive Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +134%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +78%
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
Association of Migraine Disorders
Health
2
American Neuromuscular Foundation

The american neuromuscular foundation was established to improve the quality of care for people with disorders of skeletal muscle, neuromuscular function, and central and peripheral nervous systems through the promotion of research and…

Health
3
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
4
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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5
Access to Advanced Health Institute

Aahi is a nonprofit biotech research institute, bringing together the best experts, technologies, and platforms to create accessible, high-quality products and solutions for harnessing the immune system to alleviate disease.

Health
6
American College of Physicians Inc

The mission of the american college of physicians (acp), www. acponline.org, is to enhance the quality and effectiveness of health care by fostering excellence and professionalism in the practice of medicine. acp was founded in 1915 to…

Health
7
The Glaucoma Foundation Inc

The glaucoma foundation, inc. is an international not-for-profit organization dedicated to eradicating glaucoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness. the strategy to achieve this goal is two-fold: raise public awareness concerning…

Health
8
American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Advancing medicine through excellence in the science, education and professional practice of medical physics. the mission is carried out through driving scientific and clinical innovation in medical physics to improve human health,…

Science & Tech
9
Critical Path Institute

The critical path institute is a catalyst in the development of new approaches that advance medical innovation and regulatory science. this is achieved by leading teams that share data, knowledge and expertise resulting in sound, consensus…

Health
10
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
11
American Diabetes Association

The mission of the American Diabetes Association is to prevent and cure diabetes and to improve the lives of all people affected by diabetes.

Health
12
The Association for Frontotemporal Degeneration

Promote and fund research into developing better diagnostic processes, therapies, and cures for frontotemporal degeneration (ftd); provide information, education, support and advocacy to persons diagnosed with ftd, their families and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Society to Prevent Blindness; the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health 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

11 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $36,000 · HealthBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATIONNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESSNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $30,000 · HealthNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INCFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $30,000 · HealthFoundation for the National Institutes of Health IncAmerican College of Preventive Medicine: $25,000 · HealthAmerican College of Preventive MedicineASSOCIATION OF BLACK CARDIOLOGISTS INC: $10,000 · HealthASSOCIATION OF BLACK CARDIOLOGISTS INCLuMind IDSC Foundation: $25,000 · OtherLuMind IDSC FoundationNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EYE AND VISION RESEARCH: $15,000 · OtherNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR EY…RESEARCHAMERICA: $10,000 · OtherRESEARCHAMERICAUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $15,000 · EducationCHPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Community Improvement
Health$161,000Other$50,000Education$15,000Community Improvement$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SOCIETY TO PREVENT BLINDNESS: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S HEALTH RESOURCE CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican College of Preventive Medicine: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK CARDIOLOGISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESEARCHAMERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Pharmaceutical Resear…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of AmericaDC15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Alliance for Aging Research funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alliance for Aging Research. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 11 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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