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Sergey Brin Family Foundation

Name: Sergey Brin Family Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

457
grants reported: $1.58B
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $680,188
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

research relief ukraine crisis energy disease

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Parkinson's research through Michael J. Fox Foundation and the ASAP Initiative
Climate and clean energy advocacy, mostly general operating support
Neuroscience and CNS research at UCSF, Stanford, Broad Institute
Autism and bipolar disorder research programs
Bay Area social services and youth organizations

Typical grant

Median grant is $680,188 with the middle half between $241,000 and $2.5 million, but the distribution is extremely top-heavy: a handful of checks between $18 million and $80 million account for most of the $1.58 billion. The largest awards go to Parkinson's infrastructure (Michael J. Fox Foundation, UCSF) and climate intermediaries (Climate Imperative, US Energy Foundation). Recipients repeat heavily, often receiving several separate grants within a single year rather than one annual award.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT”
“ASAP INITIATIVE”
“ENERGY INITIATIVES”
“RESEARCH SUPPORT”
“SUPPORT FOR CNS RESEARCH”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame neuroscience work as CNS or Parkinson's-adjacent; they fund LRRK2, clinical trial platforms, and data infrastructure.
Route large science asks through established intermediaries like MJFF, UCSF, Stanford, or Broad rather than direct.
For climate, emphasize deployment and policy over basic research; they fund advocacy and market-shaping groups.
Ask in the $1M to $2.5M range for a first relationship; unrestricted framing matches their pattern.

Worth knowing: The Michael J. Fox Foundation appears in this record more than a dozen times and absorbs roughly a quarter of all dollars, and California recipients are 231 of 457 grants, so this reads as concentrated, relationship-driven giving through a small set of trusted institutions. Nearly everything is general operating or named-initiative support to organizations already in the portfolio, not project grants to newcomers.

5 grants matching “autism” · $24.6M

$5.6M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Support for autism research
$5.5M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Support for autism research
$2.0M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support for autism research
$6.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Autism project, the social circuits research fund - pi dr. Karl deisseroth
$5.5M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Deisseroth lab: pediatric temporal processing in autism

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research26 grants · $464.6M
Ucsf Foundation13 grants · $153.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University16 grants · $132.6M
Climate Imperative Foundation3 grants · $129.0M
United States Energy Foundation4 grants · $60.5M
Bd2 Llc3 grants · $50.3M
Gavi Alliance1 grant · $28.1M
Dafgiving3601 grant · $25.0M
Schwab Charitable Fund1 grant · $20.0M
Climateworks Foundation5 grants · $19.3M

Giving over time

$512.1M

2022

$376.6M

2023

$693.8M

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 457 grants.

$109.5M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2022
Asap initiative
$79.9M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Asap initiative
$55.4M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease research
$50.1M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Wastewaterscan
$49.0M
Climate Imperative Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$47.0M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Asap initiative
$40.0M
Climate Imperative Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General operating support
$40.0M
Climate Imperative Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support
$30.1M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$30.0M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$29.0M
United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support
$29.0M
United States Energy Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$28.1M
Gavi Alliance · 2022
Covax
$27.9M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research support for parkinson's disease
$25.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Wastewaterscan
$25.0M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research support
$25.0M
Dafgiving360 · Orlando, FL · 2024
General operating support
$24.1M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Asap initiative
$23.4M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease research
$20.5M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Discovering drugs for parkinsons disease and multiple systems atrophy
$20.3M
Bd2 Llc · Santa Monica, CA · 2024
Support for bipolar disorder research
$20.0M
Bd2 Llc · Santa Monica, CA · 2022
Support research related to bipolar disorder
$20.0M
Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2023
Support initiatives
$19.8M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Scan project
$18.2M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$17.5M
Broad Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Support for cns research
$16.0M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Hunters point animal facility modernization project
$15.5M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Lrrk2 investigative therapeutics exchange
$12.5M
Resources Legacy Fund · Sacramento, CA · 2023
Support for wildfire mitigation strategy
$12.0M
Rewiring America · Washington, DC · 2024
General operating support
$10.5M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General operating support
$10.0M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Discovering drugs for parkinsons disease and multiple systems atrophy - pi dr. Stan prusiner
$10.0M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease research
$10.0M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Path to prevention (p2p) platform study
$10.0M
Bd2 Llc · Santa Monica, CA · 2023
Support research related to bipolar disorder
$10.0M
International Committee of the Red Cross · 2022
Support ukraine crisis relief efforts
$10.0M
Aspen Global Change Institute · Basalt, CO · 2024
General operating support
$10.0M
Blue Meridian Partners · New York, NY · 2024
Bay area support
$7.6M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$6.6M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research support
$6.6M
Ucsf Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Research support
$6.4M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Lrrk2 investigative therapeutics exchange
$6.0M
Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Institute for carbon management
$6.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Autism project, the social circuits research fund - pi dr. Karl deisseroth
$6.0M
Ocean Energy Pathway · 2024
Energy initiatives
$6.0M
Stichting European Climate Foundation · 2024
General operating support
$5.6M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Support for autism research
$5.5M
Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere · Merrifield, VA · 2022
Support ukraine crisis response efforts in poland
$5.5M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Support for autism research
$5.5M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Deisseroth lab: pediatric temporal processing in autism
$5.3M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease therapeutics
$5.3M
The Aspen Institute · Aspen, CO · 2022
Green shipping corridors project
$5.0M
Target Als Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$5.0M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Global shipping campaign scaling
$5.0M
Mercy Corps International · Portland, OR · 2022
Support ukraine crisis relief efforts
$5.0M
Save the Children Federation · Fairfield, CT · 2022
Support ukraine crisis relief efforts
$5.0M
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc (Doctors Without Borders - USA) · New York, NY · 2022
Support ukraine crisis relief efforts
$5.0M
Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2022
For the charitable purposes of the clean grid initiative
$5.0M
Multiplier · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Energy initiatives
$5.0M
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$5.0M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease research on disease activity and progression
$5.0M
Tipping Point Community · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support
$5.0M
Earth Fire Alliance · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Wildfire technology
$5.0M
Pacific Environment and Resources Center · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$5.0M
Tara Climate Ltd · 2024
General operating support
$5.0M
Elemental Excelerator · Honolulu, HI · 2023
General operating support
$5.0M
Pacific Environment and Resources Center · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Support for clean energy programming
$5.0M
Tara Climate Ltd · 2023
General operating support
$5.0M
Alliance for Open Society Institute · New York, NY · 2022
Ukraine fund - support for the crisis relief efforts
$5.0M
Stichting European Climate Foundation · 2022
General operating support for tara foundation
$5.0M
Stichting Next Level Initiatives · 2022
General operating support
$5.0M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2024
General operating support
$4.9M
Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2022
Support ukraine crisis relief efforts through moas
$4.9M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$4.9M
George Mason University Foundation · Fairfax, VA · 2023
Equitable and accessible software for injury detection
$4.5M
National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Scan wastewater project iv
$4.5M
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group · New York, NY · 2022
Green shipping corridors project
$4.4M
Global Maritime Forum · 2022
Green shipping corridors
$4.2M
The Aspen Institute · Aspen, CO · 2023
Programs supporting zero emissions in transportation
$4.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Support for parkinson's disease research
$4.0M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Support for parkinson's disease research
$3.9M
The Aspen Institute · Aspen, CO · 2024
General operating support
$3.7M
Global Impact · Alexandria, VA · 2023
Support for disaster relief efforts
$3.6M
International Land and Forest Tenure Facility · 2024
General operating support
$3.5M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$3.5M
Regents of the University of California · Davis, CA · 2022
Healthy central valley together at uc davis
$3.3M
The National Wildlife Federation · Reston, VA · 2023
Support for clean energy programming
$3.3M
The National Wildlife Federation · Reston, VA · 2024
Energy initiatives
$3.2M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2022
Evergreen fund
$3.1M
Global Maritime Forum · 2024
General operating support
$3.0M
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2023
General operating support
$3.0M
Greenlight Fund · Boston, MA · 2022
General operating support
$3.0M
Latino Community Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
General operating support
$3.0M
United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2023
Support for the international maritime organization climate programs
$3.0M
Elemental Excelerator · Honolulu, HI · 2024
General operating support
$3.0M
Karuk Tribe · Orleans, CA · 2023
Eco-cultural revitalization
$3.0M
Rocky Mountain Institute · Boulder, CO · 2022
Climate finance access network expansion in the pacific
$3.0M
United Nations Foundation · Washington, DC · 2024
Shipping initiatives
$2.9M
Respond Global · 2022
Vanuatu vaccination project
$2.8M
Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2024
Support parkinson's disease clinical trials

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