There is no private entity that will broadly fund basic research. The most likely candidates, like Harvard, are also being attacked. The point of all this is to promote anti-intellectualism. No one is coming to save us from it.

Shareholders are not interested in anything that doesn't have an obvious and sort-term payoff - the days of companies funding any significant degree of basic science research are long gone. Our ruling class has become so selfish and myopic that they are willing to derail our long-term future for short-term gain.

There are quite large private funded organisations like Polybio. As the public funding has dried up there are people like Vitalik of Ethereum fame who have Long Covid and funding further Covid research. Its out of necessity at this point.