· Public charity
Usagainstalzheimer's
USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S is engaged in a relentless pursuit to end alzheimer's, the sixth leading killer in america.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $156,825 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $205,825 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $49,000 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING | $41,825 |
| THE GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA | $30,000 |
| CARINGKIND | $22,500 |
| RESEARCH AMERICA | $20,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY | $10,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–24, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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
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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $275k · revenue +51%
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $135k · revenue +25%- UUSAGING4× · 2017–2020 · $118k · revenue +479%
Funded once
- DADAVOS ALZHEIMER'S COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2021 · $2.3M · revenue -14%
- TFTHE FORGET ME NOT PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -81% · 37% of their budget
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +24%
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.
To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders New York City Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dementia Alliance International. 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 32 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 DAVOS ALZHEIMER'S COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc ↗
- Who funds USAGING ↗
- Who funds RESEARCHAMERICA ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FORGET ME NOT PROJECT ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR AGING RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GERONTOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF VETERANS' RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DISORDERS NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING ↗
- Who funds THE MILKEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE YOUTH MOVEMENT AGAINST ALZHEIMERS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF NEUROLOGY ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LATINO ALZHEIMERS AND MEMORY DISORDERS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DEMENTIA ACTION ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds UNIDOSUS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Dementia Alliance International ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds KIM AND GLEN CAMPBELL FOUNDATION ↗
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: AARP · Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America · Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging · The John a Hartford Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Usagainstalzheimer's 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% 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.