California · Nonprofit
California Institute for BioMedical Research
California Institute for BioMedical Research (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,238,799 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($17,930,314). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2018
- $99M
- Funders on record
- 4
- Grants received
- $18M
- Net assets
- $0
What California Institute for BioMedical Research does
Mission
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human diseases. The California Institute for Biomedical Research (CALIBR) is a biomedical research organization located in San Diego, California. CALIBR bridges the gap between basic biomedical research and the clinical application of research discoveries to human disease. CALIBR commits substantially all of its resources to biomedical research activities. CALIBR's research and work will catalyze the translation of discoveries by scientists at other San Diego research institutes, as well as other major research institutes throughout the world, into potential new therapies for many life threatening and debilitating diseases. These diseases include orphan diseases, degenerative diseases of aging, cancer, autoimmune diseases, and infectious diseases.
As stated on its FY2018 Form 990.
Program
Research grants and contracts are received from public and private institutions and are used to conduct biomedical research. In the current fiscal year, CALIBR conducted research through a private collaboration agreement on autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, cancer biology, cardiovascular metabolic diseases and neurobiology. In addition, it conducted research for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy, juvenile diabetes, tb drug development, osteoarthritis, cryptosporidiosis and malaria.
The first program described on its most recent Form 990, which lists programs largest first by expense.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2017 to 2018, from $24M to $0 (−100%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 4 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 0% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of California Institute for BioMedical Research’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
California Institute for BioMedical Research leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
California Institute for BioMedical Research draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 3 states in all.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Government funding California Institute for BioMedical Research receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.8M on record.
- Department of Health and Human Services$1.8M
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like California Institute for BioMedical Research
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
88% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- THe Scripps Research Institute · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for California Institute for BioMedical Research: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds California Institute for BioMedical Research?
- California Institute for BioMedical Research (California) receives grants from 4 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,238,799 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($17,930,314). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does California Institute for BioMedical Research have?
- IRS filings report 4 organizations giving $18,238,799 in grants to California Institute for BioMedical Research.
- Who is the largest funder of California Institute for BioMedical Research?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $17,930,314 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like California Institute for BioMedical Research find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing