Sequoia Foundation

Sequoia Foundation, doing business as Babysbreath.org, is a Berkeley, California-based veteran-owned nonprofit that conducts biomedical research and environmental health monitoring for federal agencies as a prime grant recipient, with recent awards focused on newborn screening quality assurance, cancer risk research, and community air-quality monitoring. The organization does not hold federal contracts as a prime but receives federal grants and subgrants from health and environmental agencies; it is not set-aside-eligible as a nonprofit entity.

Sequoia Foundation's customer base concentrates sharply within the Department of Health and Human Services. The top five customer entities account for 63% of awards by count, anchored by HHS Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Pittsburgh (3 awards, $2.7 million combined potential value), CDC's Office of Acquisition Services (7 awards, $772 thousand), the National Institutes of Health (4 awards), and the Health Resources and Services Administration (2 awards). The organization also holds a grant from EPA Region 9. Recent representative grant work includes a $589,761 National Cancer Institute Cancer Cause and Prevention Research grant (CFDA 93.393) awarded in August 2026 to investigate pregnancy exposome and metabolome in relation to premenopausal breast cancer risk, performance running through July 2031 in Berkeley; a $1.7 million HUD Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control project grant from April 2025 for lead-based paint hazard reduction in eligible housing; and a $499,895 EPA American Rescue Plan-funded cooperative agreement from May 2023 for ambient air monitoring in California Bay Area environmental justice communities. The June 2023 CDC Pittsburgh definitive contract for blood collection to create newborn screening quality assurance materials ($1.7 million ceiling, time-and-materials, running through May 2028 in Atlanta) represents the organization's sole federal contract prime award in recent source data.

Activity has been sparse and episodic — one award in 2021, one in 2023, then one each in 2024, 2025, and 2026 — with two awards (combined potential value $1.7 million) completing within the next twenty-four months. Sequoia Foundation acts as subrecipient on a June 2024 UC Davis pesticide-education subgrant focused on outreach and training to Hmong farmers and healers in the Central Valley. The organization's NAICS concentration lies in Other Scientific and Technical Consulting Services and Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities, reflecting its profile as a research-performing nonprofit rather than a services contractor.