· Public charity
Bay Area Lyme Foundation
The BAY AREA LYME FOUNDATION's mission is (1) to accelerate the development of reliable diagnostic tools for all stages of lyme disease and a cure for late stage lyme through funding innovative scientific research; and (2) to foster prevention through education and awareness building.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $73k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
- $250k+2 grants · $750k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAPIENT BIOANALYTICS | $379,172 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $370,447 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $150,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CENTER FOR LYME ACTION | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION | $40,000 |
| LYME DISEASE BIOBANK FOUNDATION | $20,793 |
| LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION | $12,450 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
DUKE UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +1%- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +57%
- PLPROJECT LYME2× · 2019–2020 · $300k · revenue +76% · 48% of their budget
Funded once
- ABAUGMENTA BIOWORKSone grant, 2021 · $383k
ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAIgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +41%- TRTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue -14%
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.
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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,…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 45 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LYME ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
- Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LYME ACTION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GENEVA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds American Junior Golf Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR OPEN DATA ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds PRECISION HEALTHCARE ECOSYSTEM ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSLATIONAL GENOMICS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: University of Pittsburgh · University of Miami · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Johns Hopkins University · Vanderbilt University Medical Center · Northwestern University · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bay Area Lyme Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Lyme Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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