· Private foundation
Illumina Corporate Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $359k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $784k
- $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $881,989 |
| AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC | $432,775 |
| STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND | $250,000 |
| GENETIC ALLIANCE INC | $250,000 |
| SAN DIEGO SQUARED | $200,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| GENERATION STEAM | $145,940 |
| GENERATION STEAM | $125,000 |
| U C SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| GENERATION STEAM | $63,500 |
| CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $31,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $30,000 |
| CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC | $25,000 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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 US giving — 77% of grant dollars ($21M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 23% that went abroad ($6.3M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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
Beyond the US — 23% of all-years giving ($6.3M)
6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 27% of Illumina Corporate Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k 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
- BIBIOCOM INSTITUTE5× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
- GSGENERATION STEAM5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +177% · 28% of their budget
- SDSan Diego Squared3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- NFNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INCone grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -35%
- GAGRID ALTERNATIVESone grant, 2021 · $500k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF GUELPHone grant, 2022 · $330k
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.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
201 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. 201 of the 1,238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds BIOCOM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds GENERATION STEAM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GENETIC ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds San Diego Squared ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS ↗
- Who funds STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CUREBOUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds The Clearity Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FUTURE KINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ACMG FOUNDATION FOR GENETIC AND GENOMIC MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds Project Helping ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC ↗
- Who funds GENSPACE NYC ↗
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: Girl Scouts of the United States of America · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Thomas C Ackerman Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Girard Foundation · French Fund Samuel Katherine Tua
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 Illumina Corporate Foundation 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.
- Acmg Foundation for Genetic and Genomic Medicine — 100% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- American Society of Human Genetics — 10% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Oregon & Sw Washington Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- Genetic Alliance Inc — 0% 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.
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