California · Nonprofit
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 226 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,984,758 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($168,081,390). 158 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $641M
- Funders on record
- 226
- Grants received
- $395M
- Net assets
- $932M
What The Scripps Research Institute does
Mission
The Scripps Research Institute ("tsri") performs high impact basic biomedical research, improves the human condition by fostering translation of its discoveries into useful products and engages in the highest quality graduate scientific education and post graduate scientific training. Tsri is known for its entrepreneurial environment and its emphasis in research relating to synthetic chemistry, the relationship between molecular structure and activity and chemical biology.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Groundbreaking scientific research is conducted at tsri campuses in la jolla, california, supported by grants, contracts and fellowships from public and private institutes and individuals. Tsri's unique structure merges basic scientific studies in biology, chemistry and bioinformatics with translational science to produce the next generation of drugs and advances in digital and precision medicine. Scientific discoveries at tsri seed joint drug discovery projects at calibr-skaggs, a division of tsri, creating a pipeline of drug candidates that will impact patients for years to come. The scripps research translational institute, another division of tsri, aims to individualize healthcare by leveraging the progress being made in human genomics and combining it with the power of wireless digital technologies and artificial intelligence.
$473,621,099 spentof which $99,620,335 as grants$9,803,187 earned by the program96% of program spendingTsri is committed to educating, training and inspiring the scientists of tomorrow. The institute's skaggs graduate school of chemical and biological sciences, ranked one of the ten best graduate programs in the country, empowers students to make high-impact discoveries at the interface of chemistry and biology. Students in the skaggs graduate school are immersed in intensive laboratory research from day one and pursue ambitious investigations across scientific disciplines. Graduates of the school become educators at top universities and research institutes, thought leaders within government departments and innovators at pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Postdoctoral associates arrive at tsri from all over the globe, seeking to expand their knowledge and training by working alongside our world-renowned scientists. The scripps fellows program identifies individuals with an outstanding record of graduate research and moves them into their own laboratories, allowing them to leapfrog their postdoctoral years of study and begin pushing the frontiers of scientific discovery.
$20,835,219 spentof which $17,469,028 as grants4% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $494,456,318.
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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.2B to $828M (−29%).
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: 2017 73% · 2018 70% · 2019 65% · 2020 59% · 2021 51% · 2022 38% · 2023 34% · 2024 42%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 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.
Chief executive
Peter G Schultz
President/CEO
Board chair
John D Diekman
Director/board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 89 funders to 76 funders, grant income rose $22M → $53M.
31 of 226 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 6% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $439k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest California Institute for BioMedical Research). These are real filings, and they are not money THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE raised.
From the IRS filings of THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 226 funders by total. 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
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 43% of grant income and the top three 57%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
36% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 59% · 2019 63% · 2020 56% · 2021 37% · 2022 37% · 2023 35% — diversifying over time.
“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.
How long its funders stay
47% of THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 32 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 18 states 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.
Against its field
THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,076 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,076 health nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government funding THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1B on record — $2.1B federal, $39k state.
- Department of Health and Human Services$2.0B
- National Science Foundation$19.9M
- Department of Defense$16.1M
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration$4.4M
- Department of Energy$550k
- Department of Veterans Affairs$12k
- OK$38k
- FL$2k
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 THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
60%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 26 states
Part of a family of 4 related entities
- Stride LLC · disregarded
- Calm Therapeutics Inc · corp_trust
- Omrx Oncology Inc · corp_trust
- Calibr Bioventures LLC · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (California) receives grants from 226 organizations whose IRS filings report $394,984,758 to it, the largest being GATES FOUNDATION ($168,081,390). 158 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE have?
- IRS filings report 226 organizations giving $394,984,758 in grants to THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, 158 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE?
- GATES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $168,081,390 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 226 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 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing