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Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
The childhood cancer charity that grew from four-year-old Alex Scott's front-yard lemonade stand; it funds paediatric cancer research grants and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab.
Also called: ALSF
Overview
Alex Scott, a child with neuroblastoma, held her first lemonade stand in 2000 to raise money for her hospital; after her death in 2004 her parents Liz and Jay Scott turned the stands into a national foundation. Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation funds childhood cancer research grants across career stages, travel support for families in trials, and the Childhood Cancer Data Lab, which builds open data tools for paediatric cancer researchers. Its model, thousands of small community fundraisers pooled into research grants, is the pattern several later childhood cancer charities have followed.
Location
Bala Cynwyd, PA, US
Type
consortium
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#449 · 8 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 8 from 4 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-17.
Matched to Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, including child institutions. 5 works · 3 citations · 40% open access · 0% clinical trials · 0% reviews.
Oncology works per year
12022
12023
22024
12025
02026
Most works
- Allegra G. Hawkins3 works
- Stephanie J. Spielman3 works
- Joshua A. Shapiro3 works
- Deepashree Venkatesh Prasad3 works
- Jennifer T. O’Malley3 works
- Jaclyn Taroni3 works
- David S. Mejia3 works
- Tania Islam1 works
- Daniel Landi1 works
- Corrine Ellsworth-Beaumont1 works
Most cited
| Work | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| The “Know Your Lemons” Tools: A strategy to improve breast cancer warning signs recognition in Malaysia 10.4103/jehp.jehp_1579_22 · open access | Journal of Education and Health Promotion | 2023 | 2 |
| EPID-22. MATERNAL USE OF TOBACCO, ALCOHOL, AND ILLICIT DRUGS DURING PREGNANCY AND ASSOCIATION WITH CHILDHOOD CANCER SUBTYPES | Neuro-Oncology | 2022 | 1 |
| Abstract 2615: The Open Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas project: Collaborative analysis of pediatric tumor data conference abstract · 10.1158/1538-7445.am2025-2615 | Cancer Research | 2025 | 0 |
| Abstract B075: The Open Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas project: Collaborative analysis of pediatric tumor data conference abstract · 10.1158/1538-7445.pediatric24-b075 | Cancer Research | 2024 | 0 |
| Abstract 2859: The Single-cell Pediatric Cancer Atlas: Open-source data and tools for single-cell transcriptomics of pediatric tumors conference abstract · 10.1158/1538-7445.am2024-2859 | Cancer Research | 2024 | 0 |
- Childhood cancer research grants
- Childhood Cancer Data Lab
- Travel For Care family support
- Lemonade Days community fundraising
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