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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.

$284M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$364k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$3.9MCommunity Improvement$1.6MScience & Tech$971kHealth$927kEmployment$745kRecreation & Sports$274kEnvironment$62kFood & Nutrition$45k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $1,545,567, the rows itemized in this filing. The $284,454,912 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $282,909,345 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $229k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $952k
  • $250k+1 grant · $364k
$71,710
Median grant
14
States reached
$6.2B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY22–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Arizona State University: $156k → 11%The Research Foundation for SUNY: $43k → 11%Lankenau Institute for Medical Research: $42k → 10%University of Pittsburgh: $68k → 11%Children s Hospital of Philadelphia: $39k → 22%Regents of The University of California: $72k → 10%San Diego State University Research Foundation: $204k → 11%Cal Poly Pomona Foundation Inc: $27k → 14%University of California Davis: $30k → 16%The Research Foundation for SUNY: $34k → 14%Columbia University: $181k → 17%Albert Einstein College of Medicine: $27k → 28%Simrise LLC: $64k → 6%William Marsh Rice University: $66k → 16%ABH Partners LLC: $1.1M → 14%Regents of The University of Michigan: $47k → 14%Michigan State University: $27k → 16%Washington University: $25k → 11%Children s Mercy Hospital: $83k → 15%University of North Carolina at Charlotte: $364k → 10%Brown University: $35k → 14%University of Colorado Denver: $66k → 10%University of Colorado Denver: $37k → 12%University of Notre Dame: $274k → 13%Ohio State University: $32k → 15%Case Western Reserve University: $232k → 17%University of Washington: $362k → 9%North Dakota State University: $39k → 12%University of Virginia: $28k → 8%Johns Hopkins Healthcare Solutions: $30k → 6%Trustees of Dartmouth College: $57k → 10%Arizona State University: $135k → 11%University of Pittsburgh: $34k → 11%San Diego State University Research Foundation: $179k → 11%University of Southern California: $65k → 14%ABH Partners LLC: $460k → 14%Regents of The University of Michigan: $36k → 14%University of North Carolina at Charlotte: $169k → 10%University of Colorado Denver: $28k → 12%Case Western Reserve University: $119k → 17%University of Washington: $204k → 9%Arizona State University: $83k → 11%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $115k → 8%San Diego State University Research Foundation: $89k → 11%University of Washington: $121k → 9%Arizona State University: $75k → 11%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $115k → 8%University of Washington: $58k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
ND
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
GA
TX

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.

North America (Canada and Mexico)$267M · 99% · 1 grant · 27734 people

Stated purpose: General Grants · Award · Bursary

Europe (including Iceland and Greenland)$1.7M · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Grants

Sub-Saharan Africa$967k · 0% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: General Grants

East Asia and the Pacific$323k · 0% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: General Grants

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s 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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 12 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$5.1M
$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+29%

Still filing today

25%
15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthScience & TechOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 FOUNDATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $472k · revenue +17%
  • CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +14%
  • UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH
    3× · 2023–2025 · $103k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • GT
    GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $351k · revenue +29%
  • UO
    University of Washington
    one grant, 2021 · $153k
  • UO
    University of Texas
    one grant, 2021 · $152k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
2
New York University

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.

Education
3
Drexel University

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…

Education
4
Lehigh University

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…

Education
5
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

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…

Education
6
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education
7
Cornell University

Education, research, medical services and other public services.

Education
8
Western New England University

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
The Catholic University of America

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…

Education
11
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

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.

Education
12
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Tufts College; 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.
04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ABH Partners LLC: $1,531,913 · OtherABH Partners LLCUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $744,954 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTONTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE: $533,506 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTEArizona State University: $449,114 · OtherArizona State UniversityCleveland Clinic Foundation: $396,182 · OtherCleveland Clinic Foundation+38 more: $2,361,355 · Other+38 moreSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $471,545 · EducationSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSIT…CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $350,330 · EducationCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $273,794 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $229,895 · EducationPresident and Fellows of …THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $181,090 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA …UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $102,736 · EducationWilliam Marsh Rice University: $66,141 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $65,236 · Education+6 more: $190,972 · Education+6 moreGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $351,322 · HealthThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $83,191 · HealthTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $39,421 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $34,810 · Community ImprovementALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC: $19,972 · Science & Tech
Other$6,017,024Education$1,931,739Health$473,934Community Improvement$34,810Science & Tech$19,972

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION SDSU RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $471,545 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION: $351,322 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $350,330 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $273,794 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $229,895 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $181,090 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH: $102,736 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $83,191 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University: $66,141 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $65,236 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $57,444 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANKENAU INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH: $42,160 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA: $39,421 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $34,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Research Foundation for The State University of New York: $33,841 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY POMONA FOUNDATION INC: $26,959 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $25,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $24,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $22,886 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENERGY LLC: $19,972 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The University of British Columbia funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The University of British Columbia. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 62 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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