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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 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 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $901,363, the rows itemized in this filing. The $991,363 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $90,000 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 · 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

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

WA
ND
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
KY
VA
MD
AZ
LA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +62% for those funded once.

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

+64%
+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
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +78%
  • 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
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
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
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
5
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
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
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
8
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.…

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9
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
10
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
11
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
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; the most unlike its peers is Children's Hospital Corporation. 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 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. 16 of the 34 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.

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 INSTITUTETHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTE: $225,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MED…UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARKUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER: $225,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTERTEXAS 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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 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 ↗

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.

Alzheimer's Disease &…American Cancer Socie…Johns Hopkins Univers…American Heart Associ…
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

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 Global Lyme Alliance Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Global Lyme Alliance Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% 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
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% 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, 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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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