· Public charity
The University of British Columbia
Pursuing excellence in research learning and engagement to foster global citizenship and advance a sustainable and just society across British Columbia Canada and the world.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $1,545,567 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $284,454,912 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $282,909,345 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k8 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $952k
- $250k+1 grant · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | $364,334 |
| Columbia University | $181,090 |
| Arizona State University | $134,526 |
| University of Washington | $121,180 |
| Case Western Reserve University | $118,652 |
| San Diego State University Research Foundation | $88,805 |
| Yale University | $88,336 |
| Children s Mercy Hospital | $83,191 |
| Regents of The University of California | $71,710 |
| Simrise LLC | $64,461 |
| Children s Hospital of Philadelphia | $39,421 |
| Regents of The University of Michigan | $35,664 |
| The Research Foundation for SUNY | $33,841 |
| University of Colorado Denver | $27,756 |
| Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc | $26,959 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Grants abroad, by region — $270M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions, $140M to organizations and $130M to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: General Grants · Award · Bursary
Stated purpose: General Grants
Stated purpose: General Grants
Stated purpose: General Grants
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2023–2025 · $472k · revenue +17%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +14%
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH3× · 2023–2025 · $103k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- GTGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $351k · revenue +29%
- UOUniversity of Washingtonone grant, 2021 · $153k
- UOUniversity of Texasone grant, 2021 · $152k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…
We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Sustainable Energy Llc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 62 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds The Children's Mercy Hospital ↗
- Who funds William Marsh Rice University ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds LANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The University of British Columbia funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.