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Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc

To make vaccines more accessible, enable innovation and expand immunization across the globe.

$7.9M
Granted FY2020
7
Grants FY2020
6
States reached
$313k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

80% of Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’17
3
’18
2
’19
6
’20
4
’21
7
’22
4
’23
2
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.8MEducation$815kScience & Tech$719kArts & Culture$300k
02FY2020 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $1,261,686, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,944,609 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,682,923 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $620k
  • $250k+2 grants · $602k
$210,172
Median grant
6
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ICON Government and Public Health Solutions$313,265
Covance Laboratories Inc$288,655
Integrated Biotherapeutics Inc$220,144
Batelle Memorial Institute$210,172
Stanford University Lockbox$190,000
Massachusetts General Hospital$30,000
Johns Hopkins University$9,450
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–22, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition: $75k → 17%AIDS Vaccine Advocacy Coalition: $25k → 17%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
WI
NY
MA
OH
CA
MD
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region: $1.5M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions, $1.4M to organizations and $46k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$573k · 39% · 8 grants · 19 people

Stated purpose: Subawardee support for Sabin Global Immunization Programs · Fellowships and Grants

South America$342k · 23% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: Subawardee support for Sabin Global Immunization Programs

South Asia$321k · 22% · 9 grants · 7 people

Stated purpose: Subawardee support for Sabin Global Immunization Programs · Fellowships and Grants

East Asia and the Pacific$119k · 8% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Subawardee support for Sabin Global Immunization Programs

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$115k · 8% · 3 grants

Stated purpose: Subawardee support for Sabin Global Immunization Programs

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.0M · 7 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+67%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureScience & TechHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • PA
    Pan American Health Organization
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.1M
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    7× · 2018–2024 · $576k
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · $440k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • BC
    Baylor College of Medicinegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.1M · revenue +67%
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 University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
The Administrators in Medicine Foundation
Health
3
University of Maryland Physicians Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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4
University of Maryland Oncology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
University of Maryland Dermatologists Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
7
University of Maryland Anesthesiology Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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8
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
9
University of Maryland Eye Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
10
University of Maryland Surgical Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
11
University of Maryland Family Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

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12
University of Maryland Emergency Medicine Associates Pa

Under the medical service plan of the university of maryland school of medicine, medical services are rendered by the members of the faculty on behalf of the school of medicine in connection with their duties to provide clinical…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Baylor College of Medicine; the most unlike its peers is National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,135,560 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIV…Baylor College of Medicine: $1,121,003 · EducationBaylor College of MedicineJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $439,665 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY+1 more: $120,589 · EducationPan American Health Organization: $1,105,974 · OtherPan American Health OrganizationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $575,570 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDICON GOV'T & PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONS: $313,265 · OtherICON GOV'T & PUBLIC HEALTH SOLUTIONSCovance Laboratories Inc: $288,655 · OtherCovance Laboratories IncIntegrated BioTherapeutics: $220,144 · OtherIntegrated BioTherapeuticsUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $115,400 · Other+2 more: $117,515 · OtherNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $407,589 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL F…INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIO…BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $210,172 · Science & TechAIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $100,177 · Human ServicesTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $92,200 · Health
Education$3,816,817Other$2,736,523Arts & Culture$707,589Science & Tech$210,172Human Services$100,177Health$92,200

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $2,135,560 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBaylor College of Medicine: $1,121,003 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $439,665 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $407,589 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetBATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE: $210,172 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY: $120,589 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $100,177 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC: $92,200 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Baylor College of Medicine ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S MEDIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PUBLIC GOOD PROJECTS INC ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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