Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation
Wynnewood, PA · EIN 56-2496146. Reported 266 grants totalling $86.9M to 89 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 89 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 77% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $132,692. Half of what it reported fell between $65,000 and $294,261; the smallest was $5,867 and the largest $2,852,247. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia | Philadelphia, PA | $11.2M | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $10.4M | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $7,330,166 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital Corporation | Boston, MA | $6,976,910 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $6,246,257 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $5,816,504 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $2,366,507 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $1,553,256 | 6 | 4 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $1,546,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Nationwide Childrens Hospital Inc | Columbus, OH | $1,503,331 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $1,485,169 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center | New York, NY | $1,367,560 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $1,331,347 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $1,219,348 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $1,108,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital Pittsburgh Foundation | Pittsburgh, PA | $912,642 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $893,598 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $854,386 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $824,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $806,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| City of Hope | Duarte, CA | $775,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $705,255 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Stanford University School of Medicine | Stanford, CA | $696,824 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Massachusetts Amherst | Amherst, MA | $685,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| The Regent of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $660,462 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $656,081 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $629,696 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $594,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $544,401 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Texas Tech University System - Lubbock | Lubbock, TX | $531,499 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Texas Tech University System - Lubbock | Lubbock, TX | $518,181 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $511,637 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| New York Medical College | Valhalla, NY | $505,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Momcology | Saint Paul, MN | $500,000 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| University of Wisconsin - Madison | Madison, WI | $500,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $452,286 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $450,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $447,836 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Albert Einstein College of Medicine | Bronx, NY | $435,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Oregon Health and Science University Foundation | Portland, OR | $411,178 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Augusta University Research Institute Inc | Augusta, GA | $401,313 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $400,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $391,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $385,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $356,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $333,084 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $324,413 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| The University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $319,854 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| George Washington University | Ashburn, VA | $299,725 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $265,734 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $262,500 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $260,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $250,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Thomas Jefferson University | Philadelphia, PA | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Seattle Childrens Foundation | Seattle, WA | $243,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey | Piscataway, NJ | $235,373 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Medical Center | Cincinnati, OH | $222,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Childrens Hospital Colorado | Aurora, CO | $217,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Ann & Robert H Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation | Chicago, IL | $205,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Connecticut Childrens Foundation Inc | Hartford, CT | $205,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $200,442 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Indiana University | Bloomington, IN | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Medical University of South Carolina | Charleston, SC | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Temple University-of the Commonwealth System of Higher Educ | Philadelphia, PA | $200,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $190,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| University of Washington Seattle | Seattle, WA | $182,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $165,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Broad Institute Inc | Cambridge, MA | $156,739 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $149,931 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| The Nemours Foundation | Jacksonville, FL | $148,244 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $145,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $144,384 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $127,096 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $126,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Inc | Edison, NJ | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison | Madison, WI | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Childrens Hospital of Wisconsin Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $124,600 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $108,582 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $61,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute | La Jolla, CA | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Texas Childrens Hospital | Bellaire, TX | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Childrens Mercy Hospital | Kansas City, MO | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center | Seattle, WA | $15,330 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| University of Kentucky | Lexington, KY | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
68 of 89 (76%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
PEDIATRIC CANCER RESEARCH
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 60 of 89 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 52 | $14.9M | $125,000 |
| 2022 | 50 | $15.8M | $152,657 |
| 2023 | 54 | $18.2M | $170,202 |
| 2024 | 52 | $18.7M | $134,931 |
| 2025 | 58 | $19.1M | $162,192 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
23% of its giving went to organizations in Massachusetts. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $132,692 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Alexs Lemonade Stand Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 333 E Lancaster Ave 414, Wynnewood, PA, 19096.
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