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Global Lyme Alliance Inc

Global lyme alliance is the leading nonprofit dedicated to conquering lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

$991k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Science & Tech$5.1MEducation$2.6MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$25kCommunity Improvement$10k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 5 grants below total $901,363 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $991,363 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $90,000 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

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $262k
  • $250k+2 grants · $615k
$161,726
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$350,000
TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE$264,637
THE LYME TRIALS DBA THE QUIET EPIDEMIC$161,726
JOHNS HOPKINS POTTS$100,000
PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY DBA INVISISBLE INTERNATIONAL$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $265k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FINANCE: $350k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $148k → 22%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE: $100k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $175k → 16%THE LYME TRIALS DBA THE QUIET EPIDEMIC: $162k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NYC: $222k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $175k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $75k → 9%UNIV OF NORTH DAKOTA GRANTS & CONTRACTS ADMIN: $108k → 13%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $175k → 21%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIV GRANTS & CONTRACTS ACCOUNTING: $100k → 22%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $178k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION: $75k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $120k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $215k → 15%TUFTS COLLEGE: $257k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FINANCE: $350k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $175k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $175k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY: $175k → 22%THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA: $150k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $75k → 9%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $150k → 21%THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE ED FUND: $175k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION: $75k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $287k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $150k → 15%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $175k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY NYC: $101k → 17%UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER: $75k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION: $75k → 13%INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY: $75k → 9%THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE ED FUND: $175k → 23%UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND OFFICE OF RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION: $75k → 11%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $141k → 19%UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $175k → 16%COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: $100k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND COMMERCIALIZATION: $75k → 13%ADMINISTRATORS - TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $158k → 23%JOHNS HOPKINS POTTS: $100k → 19%THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $137k → 16%TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE: $80k → 16%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORPORATION DBA MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $125k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
NY
MA
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CA
KY
VA
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LA
TX
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.7M · 17 repeat orgs$776k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
11

Total granted

$7.7M
$615k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+62%

Still filing today

41%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $162k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationScience & TechHealthOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +57%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    7× · 2017–2024 · $964k · revenue +50%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $700k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS
    one grant, 2017 · $118k
  • VH
    VCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
3
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
Lehigh University

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…

Education
6
New York University

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.

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

8
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
9
The George Washington University

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…

Education
10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Players Philanthropy Fund 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

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Trustees of Tufts College — $964,049 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $757,459 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW Y…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $700,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $685,453 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $648,709 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $440,000 · EducationUniversity of Kentucky Research FoundationYale University — $300,000 · EducationYale University+5 more — $354,633 · Education+5 moreUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS — $619,835 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA — $550,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDAVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $325,000 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER — $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTERUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK — $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE — $225,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MED…TEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER — $193,750 · OtherTEXAS A&M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTERUniversity of North Dakota-College of Business & Public Admin — $188,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $175,000 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC — $166,415 · OtherThe Lyme Trials LLC — $161,726 · OtherTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS — $118,450 · Other+6 more — $364,900 · Other+6 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,150,000 · HealthChildren's Ho…INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY — $225,000 · Science & TechBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 · Science & TechPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $25,000 · Philanthropy
Education$4,850,303Other$3,538,076Health$1,150,000Science & Tech$250,000Philanthropy$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $1,150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $964,049 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $757,459 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $685,453 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $648,709 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Kentucky Research Foundation — $440,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYale University — $300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY — $225,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $148,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York — $85,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $16,162 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $5,238 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds University of Kentucky Research Foundation
  • Who funds Yale University
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds The Research Foundation for The State University of New York
  • Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC
  • Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
  • Who funds University of New Haven
  • Who funds Cornell University

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.

Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association IncIL13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc · American Cancer Society Inc · Johns Hopkins University · American Heart Association 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 Global Lyme Alliance 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University12% of income from government
  • Yale University12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • University of New Haven2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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