I assume IBM's abandonment of WCG is likely due to corporate greed than anything [externally] partisan or political. Seeing as none of the IBM WCG staffers have posted on this forum, it may have been cold-hearted. (I wondered if IBM re-located them to other departments internally of their choosing or laid them off without warning, but I've heard so many times of big corporations really screwing over employees that nothing would surprise me.)

Folding@home's website has a ton of corporate sponsors at the bottom. It's been that way for many years. This tells me that WCG has simply not been aggressive enough in soliciting corporate sponsorships, not because the funding just isn't there.

WCG really needs a marketing and major gifts full-time professional to do this. I worked at a couple university-based alumni associations, and entire teams of people specialized in asking for big donations.