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Uc San Diego Foundation

The mission of the UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION is to advocate and raise private support for the university of california san diego, for the purpose of its research, teaching and public service mission.

$230M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
2
Grants FY2025
2
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$230,157,233
Largest grant, FY2025
$230,157,233
Organizations funded a year
2 to 2
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$2.0B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Uc San Diego Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$230M0%
FY20242$360M0%
FY20232$169M0%
FY20222$125M0%
FY20212$74M0%
FY20202$157M0%
FY20192$108M0%
FY20182$100M0%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$1.4BArts & Culture$734k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$1,421,058,5669n/a
Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse$734,33591%

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How do I get to Uc San Diego Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Uc San Diego Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Uc San Diego Foundation

How much does Uc San Diego Foundation give?
Uc San Diego Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $230,258,937 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 2 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Uc San Diego Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (100%), Arts & Culture (0%).
Who are Uc San Diego Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents of the University of California at San Diego ($1.4B), Theater & Arts Foundation of San Diego County Dba la Jolla Playhouse ($734k).
Does Uc San Diego Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Uc San Diego Foundation based?
Uc San Diego Foundation is based in CA.

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 2 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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