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La Jolla Institute for Immunology

At LA JOLLA INSTITUTE FOR IMMUNOLOGY, our scientists focus on understanding how the immune system works in order to promote human health and prevent disease.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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$28MEducation$10MScience & Tech$4.6MPublic Safety & Disaster$71k
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 36 grants below total $10,327,878, the rows itemized in this filing. The $11,383,266 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,055,388 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $2.2M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.9M
$109,113
Median grant
20
States reached
$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN$3,462,338
YALE UNIVERSITY$1,166,666
EMORY UNIVERSITY$827,749
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTO$719,089
LEIDOS$431,613
UCSD$395,399
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS$343,718
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$268,546
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER$251,512
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CITY OF NY$249,927
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH$228,290
FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER$227,973
OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY$202,920
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$186,166
ZALGEN LABS LLC$177,444
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 63% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MIT: $232k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $186k → 16%UC BERKELEY (UCB): $196k → 10%UCLA: $249k → 14%THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY CITY OF NY: $250k → 17%UNIV OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH: $836k → 14%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3.5M → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $720k → 11%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $770k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIV: $314k → 12%YALE UNIVERSITY: $538k → 12%VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY: $736k → 14%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $828k → 14%PURDUE UNIVERSITY: $191k → 19%BENAROYA RES INST: $227k → 9%LEIDOS: $462k → 6%UNIV OF VIRGINIA: $830k → 8%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $344k → 23%ZALGEN LABS LLC: $1.2M → 6%ZALGEN LABS LLC: $177k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $219k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $179k → 16%UCLA: $174k → 14%THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH AT GALVESTO: $719k → 14%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $453k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIV: $284k → 12%EMORY UNIVERSITY: $561k → 14%LEIDOS: $432k → 6%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $264k → 8%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $426k → 23%ZALGEN LABS LLC: $1.4M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $306k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $150k → 16%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $342k → 17%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST LOUIS: $344k → 21%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $203k → 12%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.9M → 9%TULANE UNIVERSITY: $218k → 23%ZALGEN LABS LLC: $1.2M → 8%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $269k → 8%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $329k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $1.1M → 9%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $234k → 17%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $495k → 9%FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $228k → 9%UCSD: $1.5M → 11%UCSD: $542k → 11%UCSD: $395k → 11%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

WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NM
AR
TN
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35M · 35 repeat orgs$4.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
8

Total granted

$35M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+23%

Still filing today

49%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationScience & 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

  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +56%
  • EU
    Emory University
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +32%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2021 · $535k · revenue +19%
  • LA
    LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $201k
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
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o

Health
3
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
6
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
7
Rush University Medical Center

The mission of Rush is to improve the health of the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, education, research and community partnerships.

Health
8
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
9
Children's Research Institute

Children's research institute dba children's national research institute conducts and promotes translational and clinical medical research and education programs that lead to improved understanding, prevention, treatment, and care of…

Health
10
University of Minnesota Physicians

University of minnesota physicians serves as the integrated group practice for the university of minnesota medical school full-time faculty to provide the highest quality healthcare to patients and their families.university of minnesota…

Health
11
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
12
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. 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

28 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. 28 of the 52 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)
27/28
Grantees still filing
24/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMB: $4,096,485 · OtherJOHN SEALY HOSPITALUTMBZALGEN LABS LLC: $3,950,204 · OtherZALGEN LABS LLCFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $3,715,615 · OtherFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTERREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: $3,462,338 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $3,058,060 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGOLEIDOS INC: $1,777,359 · OtherLEIDOS INCRECTOR & VISITORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $1,093,721 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,034,634 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $883,414 · Other+17 more: $3,279,538 · Other+17 moreEmory University: $2,775,733 · EducationEmory UniversityWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,287,149 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITYYale University: $2,080,832 · EducationYale UniversityTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,104,056 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULA…Massachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,025,192 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Tec…ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,008,042 · EducationICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MO…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $386,451 · Education+5 more: $662,646 · Education+5 moreVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,795,140 · HealthVanderbilt U…THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $534,866 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS …Children's Hospital Corporation: $364,862 · HealthChildren's H…CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $314,259 · HealthCEDARS-SINAI…BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $291,222 · HealthBENAROYA RES…CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $234,303 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $222,166 · Health+4 more: $33,464 · HealthJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $152,717 · Science & TechThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $89,268 · Science & TechNETWORK FOR GOOD: $70,634 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$26,351,368Education$11,330,101Health$4,790,282Science & Tech$241,985Public Safety & Disaster$70,634

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER: $3,715,615 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center: $2,795,140 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $2,775,733 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2,287,149 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $2,080,832 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,104,056 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $1,025,192 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $1,008,042 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $534,866 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $386,451 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $364,862 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $327,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER: $314,259 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA: $291,222 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES: $258,986 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $234,303 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $222,166 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJ CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE: $152,717 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $89,268 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $70,634 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $57,788 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARKANSAS CHILDREN'S RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $57,310 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,588 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $9,214 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $7,504 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUREBOUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University Medical Center ↗
  • Who funds Emory University ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI ↗
  • Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BENAROYA RESEARCH INSTITUTE AT VIRGINIA ↗
  • Who funds ALBANY COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds J CRAIG VENTER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

The George Washington…Yale UniversityThe Trustees of Colum…Vanderbilt UniversityMayo ClinicPublic Health Institu…Johns Hopkins Univers…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The George Washington UniversityVA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The George Washington University · Yale University · The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York · Vanderbilt University · Mayo Clinic · Public Health Institute · Johns Hopkins University · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 La Jolla Institute for Immunology funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from La Jolla Institute for Immunology. 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%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% 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 52 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home