· Public charity
Ucla Foundation
The UCLA FOUNDATION is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
- $50k–250k31 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+39 grants · $533M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES | $453,053,415 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA INC | $15,000,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY 180 | $11,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $10,000,000 |
| CRISTO REY ST VIATOR LAS VEGAS COLLEGE PREPARATOR | $5,000,000 |
| THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION | $5,000,000 |
| LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIO | $3,100,000 |
| THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION | $3,000,000 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $3,000,000 |
| CAMPUS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION | $2,500,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC | $2,000,000 |
| ALTAMED FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| CENTER FOR THE FUTURE OF LEARNING | $1,500,000 |
| UCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION | $1,360,489 |
| TOGETHER CALIFORNIA | $1,250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $11.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 51 since wound down; 44 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43M 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
- O1OPPORTUNITY 1804× · 2021–2025 · $37M · revenue +53% · 82% of their budget
- FFFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS7× · 2019–2025 · $10M · revenue +37% · 57% of their budget
- AEARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +80% · 74% of their budget
Funded once
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALone grant, 2024 · $15M · revenue 0%
- NGNEVADA GRANTLABone grant, 2024 · $5.0M · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
- AGARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNIONone grant, 2024 · $3.5M · revenue 0%
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.
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For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
231 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. 231 of the 250 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 OPPORTUNITY 180 ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS ↗
- Who funds ARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA GRANTLAB ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Museum At Belcourt Inc ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES ↗
- Who funds Las Vegas Metropolitan PD Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds ALTAMED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION ↗
- Who funds ANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds X PRIZE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for the Future of Learning ↗
- Who funds CENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SPREAD THE WORD NEVADA ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Liberty Hill Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family Foundation Inc · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · United Way of Southern Nevada · The Vahik & Alice Petrossian Foundation · Jhm Charitable Foundation · Wynn Resorts Foundation · Engelstad Family Foundation · George Ignatius Foundation · Mgm Resorts Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Ucla Foundation 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- American Gastroenterological Association Institute — 3% 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.