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The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$6.8MPublic Safety & Disaster$550kHuman Services$530kInternational$235kYouth Development$203kEducation$196kArts & Culture$75kEmployment$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
$100,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CAREGIVER ACTION NETWORK$100,000
MAKE-A WISH CANADA$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
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.

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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES (PALS): $150k → 7%THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $10k → 8%GRANT - PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES: $100k → 7%PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES (PALS): $100k → 7%RAREGIVERS - A NONPROFIT GROUP ENRICHING LIVES: $25k → 10%YWCA BOSTON: $5k → 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

IL
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($918k)

8 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$414k · 3 grants
Canada$376k · 5 grants
Spain$50k · 2 grants
Italy$22k · 2 grants
Ireland$20k · 2 grants
Australia$18k · 1 grant
Germany$9k · 1 grant
South Africa$9k · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 44% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 38%.

The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 24% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 17 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
68

Total granted

$4.4M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+25%

Still filing today

88%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $741k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • GG
    GLOBAL GENES
    3× · 2020–2023 · $945k · revenue +28%
  • SC
    SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK
    3× · 2020–2025 · $525k · revenue +14%
  • PA
    PATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $350k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • NO
    NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue -19%
  • GG
    GRANT - GIVE AN HOUR
    one grant, 2021 · $335k
  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -22%
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
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
The N 1 Collaborative Inc

To make individualized medicines routinely and rapidly accessible to rare disease patients worldwide.

Health
3
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
4
Curesearch for Children's Cancer

Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…

Health
5
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
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
All Children's Research Institute Inc

The corporation is organized and is operated exclusively for charitable, educational and scientific purposes. all children's research institute supports, encourages, and engages in and conducts medical research and other research in…

Health
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
11
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
30/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC: $600,000 · OtherNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INCANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND: $500,000 · OtherANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLANDWILLOW FOUNDATION: $378,577 · OtherWILLOW FOUNDATIONGRANT - GIVE AN HOUR: $334,910 · OtherGRANT - GIVE AN HOURGRANT - AMERICARES EMERGENCY RELIEF: $250,000 · OtherGRANT - AMERICARES EMERGENCY RELIEFIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRANT - ANGEL FLIGHT: $200,000 · OtherGRANT - RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES INC: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $150,000 · OtherROALD DAHL'S MARVELOUS CHILDREN'S CHARITY: $150,000 · Other+50 more: $1,213,113 · Other+50 moreGLOBAL GENES: $945,000 · HealthGLOBAL GENESTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $669,259 · HealthTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATIONSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $525,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORKRonald McDonald House Global: $350,000 · HealthRonald McDonald House GlobalChildren's Hospital Corporation: $225,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationIMD Guest House Foundation: $183,421 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 · Health+9 more: $420,670 · Health+9 morePATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $350,000 · Human ServicesRAREGIVERS INC: $25,000 · Human Services+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $300,000 · Public Safety & DisasterAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · InternationalAKARI FOUNDATION: $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 · InternationalCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 · EducationURU THE RIGHT TO BE INC: $25,000 · EducationKHAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR INC: $20,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $16,000 · EducationNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $10,000 · EducationYEAR UP INC: $10,000 · EducationDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$4,226,600Health$3,458,350Human Services$390,000Public Safety & Disaster$300,000International$260,000Education$136,000Arts & Culture$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGLOBAL GENES: $945,000 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetTHE GIVE AN HOUR NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $669,259 over 3y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS INC: $600,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $525,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPATIENT AIRLIFT SERVICES INC: $350,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $350,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $300,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIMD Guest House Foundation: $183,421 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $140,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FAMILY CAREGIVERS ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S INN AT NIH INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $57,300 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUNITED SPINAL ASSOCIATION INC: $33,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF NORTHEAST GEORGIA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetURU THE RIGHT TO BE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCure VCP Disease Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAKARI FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOUR ODYSSEY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMindful Life Project: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Peoples United Commun…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Nellie Mae Education …Pharmaceutical Resear…Silicon Valley Commun…Illumina Corporate Fo…Newalliance Foundatio…The New England Patri…William Caspar Graust…Ion Bank Foundation I…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
Peoples United Community FoundationCT17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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How do I get to The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Alexion Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 94 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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