Google is a megacorp motivated by profit. Their only real aim is making money. They get the best products because big money to spend equals big talent to buy. Many of their technical people have expressed how they like GrapheneOS, but their business side do not really care. We did not have any special partner access because of this until an OEM we are working with came around to do it by proxy.

The GrapheneOS Foundation is a thing. If a wealthy individual wants to donate they can send the money there. There won't be strings attached though and they shouldn't send anything expecting treatment beyond our thanks.