Pennsylvania · Nonprofit
ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION
ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 478 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,621,210 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,934,496). 199 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $33M
- Funders on record
- 478
- Grants received
- $28M
- Net assets
- $36M
What Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation does
Mission
The foundation's purpose is to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Pediatric cancer research fund program highlights:- alsf funds cutting edge research projects at top institutions globally that seek to cure the incurable and to provide less toxic treatments for all children with cancer. Projects are selected through a competitive grant review, with each application receiving multiple reviews by scientists. The focus of the alsf grant giving is on filling critical gaps in funding for pediatric cancer cures, from early innovative science to first-in-children clinical trials. Of note, alsf has been given the nci peer- reviewed funder designation for rigorous selection of research grants. Continued in schedule o - alsf's funding over the years has supported more than 1,500 research projects at more than 150 different institutions. Funded projects are required to submit progress reports which are peer reviewed by members of our scientific review board to ensure good stewardship of the funds and appropriate progress is being made.
$20,619,115 spentof which $19,581,694 as grants81% of program spendingAlsf works to bring awareness and understanding of childhood cancer to the general public and to childhood cancer families. Highlights include:- the alsf website provides information, facts, and educational resources for families of children with cancer. In addition, alsf publishes reference books, the childhood cancer guides, for caregivers of children with cancer that they provide free to families. Continued in schedule o- alsf believes that everyone can participate in the cause; to that end alsf has created awareness and fundraising mechanisms that are easy to use, remove barriers to participation, and bring the stories and facts of childhood cancer to communities across the country.
$1,974,426 spent$38,275 earned by the program8% of program spendingAlsf provides a range of meaningful financial and emotional support programs to families whose children have cancer, including travel for care, sibling support, flashes of hope, and a resource navigator.highlights of the services include:- the travel for care program provides travel assistance for families who are financially burdened by travel for treatment for their children. Families' needs are identified via social workers and alsf provides upfront support to pay for airfare, gas cards and lodging. This allows families to have access to the best care possible for their child regardless of where they live. (continued in schedule o)340 families across all 50 states were helped, and the average annual income of a family supported via the travel for care program in 2025 was $52,756.- the supersibs program provides comfort, care and empowerment to siblings of children with cancer. Through regular age-appropriate mailings, more than 3000 siblings were supported in 2025.- alsf employs a fulltime resource navigator who is dedicated to answering calls and emails from families seeking support. She provides personalized assistance in identifying and connecting families with the finanical…
$1,343,665 spentof which $753,050 as grants5% of program spendingData lab - to accelerate the pace of finding cures for childhood cancer by empowering scientists and doctors to harness the power of big data through the data lab. The foundation's childhood cancer data lab is dedicated to childhood cancer by translating research data into one consistent format so that all researchers can access and understand.
$1,644,118 spentof which $118,582 as grants6% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2025 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $25,581,324.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $32M to $37M (+15%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 3% · 2022 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 85 funders to 134 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $3.6M.
50 of 478 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 38% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 478 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders to its left
78% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 15% · 2018 26% · 2019 34% · 2020 12% · 2021 12% · 2022 31% · 2023 11% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Pennsylvania, across 42 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $10M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4k on record.
- STUDENT BODY ACTIVITY$4k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Pennsylvania
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
78%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 31 states
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Questions and answers
- Who funds ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION?
- ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION (Pennsylvania) receives grants from 478 organizations whose IRS filings report $27,621,210 to it, the largest being CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ($2,934,496). 199 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 478 organizations giving $27,621,210 in grants to ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION, 199 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION?
- CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA is the largest funder on record, with $2,934,496 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Pennsylvania. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 478 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing