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Ucla Foundation

The UCLA FOUNDATION is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus.

$537M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$453M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$3.2BHealth$38MPhilanthropy$29MArts & Culture$27MReligion$16MMembership Benefit$13MInternational$12MHuman Services$8.4MOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

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
$200,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$6.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%The Genocide Education Project: $90k → 10%LEARNING ALLY INC: $2.0M → 11%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $500k → 13%EYESHINE: $50k → 14%MAKE-A-WISH SOUTHERN NEVADA: $250k → 13%NATHAN ADELSON HOSPICE: $1.0M → 13%Union Rescue Mission: $100k → 14%HOPE FOR PRISONER INC: $500k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONER INC: $250k → 13%HOPE FOR PRISONER INC: $150k → 13%THE CUPCAKE GIRLS: $100k → 13%SAFE NEST TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR DOMESTIC CRISI: $200k → 13%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $150k → 13%PROJECT 150: $100k → 13%YMCA OF SOUTHERN NEVADA: $100k → 13%OUTSIDE LAS VEGAS FOUNDATION: $150k → 13%RETINAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 14%IRAQAFGSTN VETERANS OF AMERICA: $30k → 17%CHAMPIONS FOR CASA: $250k → 13%Motion Picture & Television Fund: $200k → 14%Motion Picture & Television Fund: $25k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $20k → 14%Motion Picture & Television Fund: $10k → 14%PEACE 4 KIDS: $20k → 14%KINDRED SPIRIT CARE FARM: $49k → 14%EXCALIBUR OPERATIONS ALLIANCE: $250k → 14%Fulfillment Fund Los Angeles: $258k → 14%PROYECTO PASTORAL: $40k → 14%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES CALIFORNIA INC: $300k → 14%SAFE PLACE FOR YOUTH: $20k → 14%Philanthropy award Cathilic Ch: $20k → 14%ST JOSEPH CENTER: $50k → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $250k → 14%TOGETHER CALIFORNIA: $1.3M → 14%FULFILLMENT FUND: $150k → 14%TOGETHER CALIFORNIA: $1.3M → 14%Los Angeles Police Foundation: $100k → 14%LOS ANGELES POLICE FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CRISIS SHELTER: $35k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
NV
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.2B · 87 repeat orgs$81M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

87
112

Total granted

$3.2B
$39M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

90%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • O1
    OPPORTUNITY 180
    4× · 2021–2025 · $37M · revenue +53% · 82% of their budget
  • FF
    FULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS
    7× · 2019–2025 · $10M · revenue +37% · 57% of their budget
  • AE
    ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2025 · $6.0M · revenue +80% · 74% of their budget

Funded once

  • VC
    VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2024 · $15M · revenue 0%
  • NG
    NEVADA GRANTLAB
    one grant, 2024 · $5.0M · revenue 0% · 46% of their budget
  • AG
    ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION
    one 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.

04Your field

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.

1
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
2
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

3
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
4
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
8
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
11
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
12
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Art & Practice. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportEnvironmental Conservation …Local Food System Organizat…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity College Foundatio…Christian Youth CampsAddiction Recovery ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Senior Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports Programs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%1%20–35yr11%2%35–55yr13%94%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/250
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,728

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.

04the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

25
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
225/231
Grantees still filing
123/231
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA — $3,057,388,760 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA+76 more — $75,813,401 · OtherOPPORTUNITY 180 — $37,300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc — $15,000,000 · EducationTEACH FOR ALL INC — $14,000,000 · EducationFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS — $10,445,008 · EducationUCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,675,037 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE — $4,000,000 · Education+17 more — $4,739,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,825,000 · PhilanthropyARMENIA FUND INC — $1,080,000 · Philanthropy+12 more — $1,953,159 · PhilanthropyARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $6,589,880 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $6,000,000 · Arts & CultureThe Museum At Belcourt Inc — $4,000,000 · Arts & CultureGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $2,023,788 · Arts & CultureAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $1,940,000 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION — $1,850,000 · Arts & CultureCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureACADEMY FOUNDATION — $1,070,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $2,421,720 · Arts & CultureVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $3,250,000 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION — $3,000,000 · HealthELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 · Health+19 more — $4,015,330 · HealthTOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC — $2,800,000 · Human ServicesLearning Ally Inc — $2,000,000 · Human ServicesRETINAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Inc — $1,000,000 · Human ServicesHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC — $900,000 · Human ServicesMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA — $750,000 · Human ServicesFULFILLMENT FUND — $657,500 · Human Services+18 more — $2,399,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,408,689 · InternationalANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $1,825,000 · InternationalCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $1,150,000 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC — $1,150,000 · InternationalTHESENTRYORG INC — $865,000 · InternationalCREATIVE ARMENIA — $700,000 · InternationalMy Step Foundation Inc — $600,000 · InternationalARMENIAN ASSEMBLY OF AMERICA INC — $450,000 · InternationalCHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND INC DBA CHILDREN OF ARMENIA FUND COAF — $350,000 · International+4 more — $775,000 · International
Other$3,133,202,161Education$111,159,045Philanthropy$28,858,159Arts & Culture$27,395,388Health$26,515,330Human Services$11,506,500International$10,273,689

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPPORTUNITY 180 — $37,300,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,825,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $20,000,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — $15,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $15,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC — $14,000,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND LAS VEGAS — $10,445,008 over 7y, 57% of budgetARMAND HAMMER MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURAL CENTER INC — $6,589,880 over 9y, 10% of budgetARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $6,000,000 over 5y, 74% of budgetUCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,675,037 over 9y, 44% of budgetNEVADA GRANTLAB — $5,000,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetTHE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION — $5,000,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTEEN CANCER AMERICA INC — $4,316,834 over 3y, 53% of budgetThe Museum At Belcourt Inc — $4,000,000 over 4y, 95% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $4,000,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION — $3,500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CHILDHOOD DISEASES — $3,250,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetTOGETHER CALIFORNIA INC — $2,800,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC — $2,408,689 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGEFFEN PLAYHOUSE INC — $2,023,788 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetLearning Ally Inc — $2,000,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetAURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC — $1,940,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,910,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetARMENIAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WESTERN REGION — $1,850,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetANCA ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $1,825,000 over 6y, 44% of budgetX PRIZE FOUNDATION INC — $1,625,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER THEATRE GROUP OF LOS ANGELES — $1,500,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC — $1,250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE — $1,150,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA — $1,150,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC — $1,150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetARMENIA FUND INC — $1,080,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetACADEMY FOUNDATION — $1,070,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNathan Adelson Hospice Inc — $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHOPE FOR PRISONERS INC — $900,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION — $885,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetTHESENTRYORG INC — $865,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHILLEL AT UCLA — $800,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NEVADA — $750,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCREATIVE ARMENIA — $700,000 over 3y, 95% of budgetSKYHOOK FOUNDATION — $700,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetPARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY — $700,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetFULFILLMENT FUND — $657,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetMy Step Foundation Inc — $600,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetGIANTS COMMUNITY FUND — $580,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetLegacy Connections — $515,280 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budget
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.

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.

California Community FoundationCA47.2× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Learning Ally Inc4% of income from government
  • American Gastroenterological Association Institute3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
43report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 250 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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