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Illumina Corporate Foundation at a glance

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Illumina Corporate Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$882k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$11MHealth$4.5MEducation$3.5MInternational$3.0MScience & Tech$2.5MEmployment$510kEnvironment$501kFood & Nutrition$313kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $784k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.8M
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION$881,989
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$432,775
GENETIC ALLIANCE INC$250,000
STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND$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
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC$25,000
CHILDRENS MERCY HOSPITAL$25,000
UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50k → 17%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $2k → 11%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH SAN DIEGO INC: $2k → 11%PADRINO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO: $1k → 11%PEDAL THE CAUSE: $5k → 11%THE ROAD HOME DANE COUNTY: $10k → 10%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

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Beyond the US: 23% of all-years giving ($6.3M)

6 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$5.6M · 37 grants
Canada$330k · 6 grants
Switzerland$250k · 1 grant
Belgium$100k · 1 grant
GB$23k · 3 grants
Mexico$8 · 1 grant
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of Illumina Corporate Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Illumina Corporate Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 45 repeat orgs$4.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
1174

Total granted

$14M
$4.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+9%

Still filing today

78%
12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $98k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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

  • BI
    BIOCOM INSTITUTE
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +17%
  • GS
    GENERATION STEAM
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +177% · 28% of their budget
  • SD
    San Diego Squared
    3× · 2023–2025 · $600k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M · revenue -35%
  • GA
    GRID ALTERNATIVES
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    one grant, 2022 · $330k
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.

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South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
2
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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The San Francisco School

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.

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4
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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5
Mark Day School

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.

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Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
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Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
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The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
9
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
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San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
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The Peak School

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…

Education
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Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences

Crossroads is an independent school for approximately 1,200 students.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

201 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
194/201
Grantees still filing
123/201
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION: $5,564,650 · OtherTHE UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONGENERATION STEAM: $1,066,758 · OtherGENERATION STEAMREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $998,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS: $550,000 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIVES: $500,000 · Other+115 more: $2,788,100 · Other+115 moreAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,642,711 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING…THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATI…RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDA…+7 more: $234,037 · PhilanthropyGIVE2ASIA: $2,705,952 · InternationalGIVE2ASIAGENETIC ALLIANCE INC: $996,123 · HealthGENETIC AL…CUREBOUND: $334,680 · HealthCUREBOUNDBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $135,000 · HealthBLOOD CANC…The Clearity Foundation: $101,000 · HealthProject Helping: $90,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $89,607 · Health+26 more: $646,720 · Health+26 moreSan Diego Squared: $600,000 · EducationSan Diego…STEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND: $550,000 · EducationSTEM NEXT…UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationUC SAN DI…CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $189,000 · EducationCAL STATE…FUTURE KINGS INC: $100,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $80,000 · EducationASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY INC: $75,000 · Education+23 more: $349,347 · Education+23 moreBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $1,317,950 · Science & TechThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $100,000 · Science & TechCenter for Excellence in Education: $50,000 · Science & Tech+1 more: $10,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,044,444 · Arts & CultureSAMUEL LAWRENCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$11,467,508Philanthropy$5,376,748International$2,705,952Health$2,393,130Education$2,243,347Science & Tech$1,477,950Arts & Culture$1,119,444

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $3,642,711 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $2,705,952 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetBIOCOM INSTITUTE: $1,317,950 over 5y, 23% of budgetGENERATION STEAM: $1,066,758 over 5y, 28% of budgetNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION INC: $1,044,444 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGENETIC ALLIANCE INC: $996,123 over 6y, 32% of budgetSan Diego Squared: $600,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF HUMAN GENETICS: $550,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSTEM NEXT OPPORTUNITY FUND: $550,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetRANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCUREBOUND: $334,680 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF DANE COUNTY INC: $318,799 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $189,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS Of the University of Cambridge: $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation: $101,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFUTURE KINGS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 58% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACMG FOUNDATION FOR GENETIC AND GENOMIC MEDICINE: $90,045 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetProject Helping: $90,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS FOUNDATION: $89,607 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION SAN DIEGO: $77,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF SAN DIEGO INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGENSPACE NYC: $60,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetGLOBAL GENES: $59,118 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $55,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $53,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMUEL LAWRENCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRARE CROSSROADS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODEORG: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPerinatal Quality Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSDHC BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetCenter for Excellence in Education: $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Girl Scouts of the Un…Rancho Santa Fe Found…The Conrad Prebys Fou…Price Philanthropies …Jewish Community Foun…The Nordson Corporati…The Thomas C Ackerman…The San Diego Foundat…David C Copley Founda…Sempra FoundationGirard FoundationFrench Fund Samuel Ka…
Girl Scouts of the United States of AmericaNY35.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Illumina Corporate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Illumina Corporate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
62report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Illumina Corporate Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Illumina Corporate Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 1238 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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