· Private foundation
The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC | $150,000 |
| ROALD DAHL'S MARVELOUS CHILDREN'S CHARITY | $150,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $140,000 |
| WILLOW FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| CAREGIVER ACTION NETWORK | $100,000 |
| ABC LIFE LITERACY CANADA | $90,000 |
| SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $75,000 |
| COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORK | $57,300 |
| GENETIC ALLIANCE | $53,370 |
| RAREGIVERS - A NONPROFIT GROUP ENRICHING LIVES | $25,000 |
| CURE VCP DISEASE | $25,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($7.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($918k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $390k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($918k)
8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 23% of The Alexion Charitable Foundation 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. Read by recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 38% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $741k 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
- GGGLOBAL GENES3× · 2020–2023 · $945k · revenue +28%
- SCSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK3× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +14%
- PAPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC3× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- NONATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INCone grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue -19%
- GGGRANT - GIVE AN HOURone grant, 2021 · $335k
- CFCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -22%
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.
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To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
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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.
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To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
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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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Akari 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
49 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 94 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 GLOBAL GENES ↗
- Who funds THE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds IMD Guest House Foundation ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds GENETIC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds Cure VCP Disease Inc ↗
- Who funds TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAREGIVERS INC ↗
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: Peoples United Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Illumina Corporate Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 The Alexion Charitable Foundation 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.
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Children's Inn at Nih Inc — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Genetic Alliance Inc — 0% 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.
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