· Public charity
Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc
The mission of the alzheimer's foundation of america (afa) is to provide support, services, and education to individuals, families and caregivers affected by alzheimer's disease and related dementias nationwide, and fund research for better treatment and a cure.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 49 grants below total $878,351 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $911,681 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $33,330 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k45 grants · $270k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $608k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $240,000 |
| ONE MIND | $200,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $100,000 |
| NYU - LONG ISLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $68,351 |
| THRIVE WEST CENTRAL | $6,000 |
| BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES | $6,000 |
| HILARITY FOR CHARITY | $6,000 |
| RX BALLROOM DANCE | $6,000 |
| COMMUNITY ADULT RESPITE EXPERIENCE INC (CARE CAFE) | $6,000 |
| RESPITE CHARLESTON | $6,000 |
| THE LIFE CENTER OF DAVIDSON COUNTY | $6,000 |
| BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES | $6,000 |
| OPICA ADULT DAY CARE | $6,000 |
| TOWN OF PROFRET - POMFRET PUBLIC LIBRARY | $6,000 |
| ST MARY'S NURSING CENTER INC | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $745k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
65 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $172k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- TFTHE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH2× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- HTHadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc3× · 2017–2023 · $334k · revenue +656%
- SCSELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $252k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- CCCity college of New Yorkone grant, 2022 · $250k
- GCGATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +27%
- UJUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +39%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Provision of housing and nursing services to senior citizens.
Enhancing the quality of life through integrated healthcare.
To provide information about alzheimers
Wesley commons is a continuing care retirement community that provides value-based health services, including assisted living, intermediate and skilled nursing care, specialized care for alzheimer's and dementia-related illnesses, as well…
Adult day care for frail older adults, particularly those suffering from some form of dementia.
Residential alzheimers and dementia care.
Day services for functionally or cognitively impaired older adults andtheir caregivers, and to advance community-based long-term care options for older adults.
To provide quality community and facility-based adult day health care with integrity and compassion with an emphasis on alzheimer's & dementia related diseases. we embrace our responsibility to create an environment where those who cannot…
Cedar crest is a life plan retirement community serving adults 55 years of age or older. its mission is to offer residents a faith-based culture that embraces a distinct wellness lifestyle, compassionate supportive living and excellent…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rosalind and Joseph Gurwin Jewish Geriatric Center of Long Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cognitive Dynamics Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
117 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 117 of the 180 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE FEINSTEIN INSTITUTES FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds NYU WINTHROP HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds SELFHELP COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROSALIND AND JOSEPH GURWIN JEWISH GERIATRIC CENTER OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE - TEXARKANA ARE ↗
- Who funds PEACHTREE CHRISTIAN HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ELDER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds THE PASTIME CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORY MATTERS ↗
- Who funds RX BALLROOM DANCE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS SERVICES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAKER SENIOR CENTER NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF NORTHEAST TEXAS dba ALZHEIMERS ALLIANCE OF SMITH COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERPARKINSON ASSOC OF IRC INC ↗
- Who funds The ARK of SC ↗
- Who funds INSIGHT MEMORY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CAREGIVER RELIEF PROGRAM OF BEDFORD ↗
- Who funds UNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPREHENSIVE SENIOR CARE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TEAMSUZY INC ↗
- Who funds RESPITE FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NYU LANGONE HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds OPICA ADULT DAY PROGRAM & COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds RESPITE CARE OF CHARLESTON ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH CAREPARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds HALE HAUOLI HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE CENTER OF DAVIDSON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL FOR JEWISH ELDERLY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Ramapo Trust · Meals on Wheels America · Center for Technology and Civic Life · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Parkinson's Foundation Inc · The Moody Foundation · The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Social Ecological Economic Development Corporation — 97% of income from government
- Council On Aging of Central Oregon — 43% of income from government
- Gateway Community Services Inc — 6% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.