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Maravai Lifesciences Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$271k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
13
Organizations funded FY2024
62%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
8 to 13
FY2022 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$773k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Maravai Lifesciences Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $133k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$271k63%
FY202413$254k62%
FY20238$285k88%
FY20229$285kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Education$365kHealth$180kCrime & Legal$125kYouth Development$55kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kArts & Culture$46kInternational$25kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 23 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($317k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Maravai Lifesciences Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVoices for Children: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPalm Beach State College Fdn Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFlorida Atlantic University Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of San Diego: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGeneration Steam: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTheater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCurebound: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDirect Relief: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonarch School Project: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCuresearch for Children's Cancer: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial Advocates for Youth San Diego Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConnect Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJar of Hope: $12,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetAlexs Lemonade Stand Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 21.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× 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.

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How do I get to Maravai Lifesciences Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Maravai Lifesciences 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.

About Maravai Lifesciences Foundation

How much does Maravai Lifesciences Foundation give?
Maravai Lifesciences Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $270,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 13 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
What does Maravai Lifesciences Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (42%), Health (21%), Crime & Legal (14%).
Who are Maravai Lifesciences Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Voices for Children ($150k), Palm Beach State College Fdn Inc ($50k), Florida Atlantic University Foundation Inc ($50k).
Does Maravai Lifesciences Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Maravai Lifesciences Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Maravai Lifesciences Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Maravai Lifesciences Foundation based?
Maravai Lifesciences Foundation is based in CA.

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 35 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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