The Anne Wojcicki Foundation

• The Anne Wojcicki Foundation makes contributions only to preselected charitable organisations and does not accept unsolicited requests, so a small nonprofit should not approach it with a cold application.
• Its recorded grants cover a broad range of purposes, including universities and research institutions, social-service and community organisations, education and youth organisations, museums and science and cultural institutions, cancer research, building public-health operational capacity, and awards supporting women in science, though most listed purposes are general support.
• Grants have ranged from $5,000 to $1,000,000, with about eight in ten of its 178 grants to organisations falling in this range and a median grant of $100,000, though its largest grant was $5,000,000, to New Venture Fund, an organisation that regrants to other organisations.
• Giving leans heavily towards organisations it already knows, with 65% of its grant dollars going to organisations it had also funded in prior filings, which points to a relationship-led rather than open, competitive process.
• No geographic focus is stated, though its filings show grants mainly in California, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York and Pennsylvania; given that applications are by invitation only, this pattern is not a basis on which to approach the foundation.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• National Philanthropic Trust · General support
  $4,032,2472024 tax year
• Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences Foundation · General support
  $2,750,0002024 tax year
• Foundation for the National Institutes of Health · Characterizing evolution and prognostic features of lung cancer in never smokers using spatial genomics, mathematical modeling, and multi-modal ai
  $2,019,7502024 tax year
• Stanford University · Shoshana levy fellowship
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Vanderbilt University · Structure/function deep dive of egfr and her2
  $1,841,9222024 tax year
• Nueva School · Realize the potential capital campaign
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Ashoka · General support
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• University of California Berkeley Foundation · Innnovative genomics initiative
  $714,2862024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.