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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 provides the margin of excellence that makes ucla stand out and stand above the rest.

$537M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
82
Grants FY2025
64
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$200,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$453,053,415
Organizations funded a year
25 to 66
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
13
Total assets, FY2025
$6.3B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Ucla Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPhilanthropyInternationalOther
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 arriving80$524M55%
FY202464$418M44%
FY202356$407M39%
FY202266$357M47%
FY202150$359M58%
FY202045$327M64%
FY201925$306M60%
FY201837$329M81%
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What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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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 Univ of California$3,057,388,7609n/a
Opportunity 180$37,300,000482%
Teach for America Inc$15,000,00016%
Valley Children's Hospital$15,000,00012%
Teach for All Inc$14,000,000222%
Armenian General Benevolent Union$12,960,0005n/a
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America$12,600,0003n/a
Fulfillment Fund Las Vegas$10,445,008757%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$6,589,880910%
Armenian Educational Foundation$6,000,000574%
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All grantees of Ucla Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Regents Univ of California$3,057,388,7609n/a
Opportunity 180$37,300,000482%
Teach for America Inc$15,000,00016%
Valley Children's Hospital$15,000,00012%
Teach for All Inc$14,000,000222%
Armenian General Benevolent Union$12,960,0005n/a
Western Prelacy of the Armenian Apostolic Church of America$12,600,0003n/a
Fulfillment Fund Las Vegas$10,445,008757%
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center Inc$6,589,880910%
Armenian Educational Foundation$6,000,000574%
Ucla Alumni Association$5,675,037944%
Nevada Grantlab$5,000,000146%
Cristo Rey St Viator Las Vegas$5,000,0001n/a
The Brookings Institution$5,000,00014%
Teen Cancer America Inc$4,316,834353%
Trinity College$4,000,00024%
The Museum At Belcourt Inc$4,000,000495%
Armenian General Benevolent Union$3,500,000110%
Alliance for Childhood Diseases$3,250,00015%
The Cleveland Clinic Foundation$3,000,0001n/a
Together California Inc$2,800,000311%
Western Diocese of the Armenian Church of North America$2,775,0004n/a
Campus for Hope Foundation$2,500,0001n/a
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc$2,408,68932%
Geffen Playhouse Inc$2,023,78847%
Altamed Foundation$2,000,0001n/a
Learning Ally Inc$2,000,00017%
Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Foundation Inc$1,940,000232%
Armenian National Committee Western Region$1,850,000689%
Anca Endowment Fund Inc$1,825,000644%
X Prize Foundation Inc$1,625,00052%
Center for the Future of Learning$1,500,0001n/a
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles$1,500,00022%
Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc$1,250,00018%
Clooney Foundation for Justice$1,150,00046%
Armenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc$1,150,000312%
Spread the Word Nevada$1,150,00028%
Armenia Fund Inc$1,080,000114%
Academy Foundation$1,070,00040%
Nathan Adelson Hospice Inc$1,000,00013%
St Joseph Husband of Mary Foundation Inc$1,000,0001n/a
Retinal Science Foundation$1,000,0001n/a
The Milken Institute$1,000,0001n/a
Hope for Prisoners Inc$900,000315%
Creative Visions Foundation$885,00043%
Thesentryorg Inc$865,000211%
Hillel at Ucla$800,00048%
Make-A-Wish Nevada$750,00025%
Skyhook Foundation$700,000557%
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy$700,00022%
Creative Armenia$700,000395%
Fulfillment Fund$657,500310%
My Step Foundation Inc$600,0002100%
Giants Community Fund$580,00036%
Legacy Connections$515,28044%
St Genevieve High School$500,0001n/a
Southeast Community Foundation$500,0001n/a
Grant A Gift Autism Foundation$500,0001n/a
Jeremiah Program$500,00012%
American University$500,00010%
University of California Berkeley Foundation$475,00010%
Pennsylvania State University$450,0004n/a
Armenian Assembly of America Inc$450,00037%
Greater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation$400,00042%
Sahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School$400,000311%
Marty Hennessy Inspiring Children Foundation$400,0001n/a
American University of Armenia Corporation$375,00022%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation$350,00022%
The Salvation Army$350,0002n/a
Homenetmen-Armenian General Athletic & Scouts Inc$350,00026%
Children of Armenia Fund Inc Dba Children of Armenia Fund Coaf$350,00022%
Earthjustice$300,00330%
National Foster Youth Institute$300,000310%
Zoryan Institute Inc$300,000192%
The Farrah Fawcett Foundation$300,00036%
St Gregory Armenian Church Pasadena Ca$300,0002n/a
Art & Practice$290,000220%
Americans for Oxford Inc$260,00020%
Motion Picture and Television Fund$255,00040%
New Horizons Center for Learning Inc$250,000110%
Excalibur Operations Alliance$250,0001n/a
YMCA of Southern Nevada$250,00021%
Anti-Defamation League$250,00010%
The Armenian Eyecare Project$250,000110%
The Halo Trust (Usa) Inc$250,00021%
Edward Charles Foundation$250,00010%
Champions for Casa$250,000150%
Human Rights Watch Inc$250,00030%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$250,00040%
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest$230,00030%
Ica La$220,00041%
Vision to Learn$200,00011%
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance For$200,00011%
Junipero Serra High School$200,0001n/a
Baller Dream Foundation$200,00027%
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation$200,00010%
Generation Alive$200,000214%
Support and Feed Inc$185,00014%
American Israel Education Foundation Inc$175,00050%
Saint John's Health Center Foundation$175,00020%
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts$165,00021%
Armenian International Medical Fund Aim Fund$165,000222%
Utah Film Center$150,00011%
American College of Gastroenterology$150,00010%
American Gastroenterological Association Institute$150,00020%
City Year Inc$150,00020%
Folds of Honor$150,0001n/a
Los Angeles Police Foundation$150,00021%
Outside Las Vegas Foundation$150,000152%
Ruskin Group Theatre Company$150,0001n/a
Global Nomads Group Inc$133,72016%
Friends of Fast$125,00017%
One Armenia Inc$125,00018%
Armenian Film Foundation$120,000390%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation$111,28460%
Anti-Defamation League Foundation$110,00021%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$110,00021%
Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief$108,15927%
American Friends of Sheba Medical Center Inc$100,00010%
Los Angeles County Business Federation$100,00014%
National Coalition for Women With Heart Disease Inc$100,00012%
Fire Aid$100,0001n/a
Poverello House Inc$100,000249%
Union Rescue Mission$100,00010%
Armenian American Museum and Cultural Center of California$100,00011%
Los Angeles Jewish Home for the Aging$100,00010%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$100,00010%
The Cupcake Girls$100,00017%
J3 Foundation$100,00016%
St Marys Armenian Apostolic Church and School$100,0001n/a
Girls on the Run Las Vegas$100,000122%
United States Fund for Unicef$100,00020%
The Posse Foundation Inc$100,00010%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Greater Las Vegas$100,00014%
University Network for International Training and Engagement for Human Rights$100,0001n/a
Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life$100,00010%
Habitat for Humanity Las Vegas$100,00014%
Israaid US Global Humanitarian Assistance Inc$100,00011%
Project 150$100,00014%
Research on Armenian Architecture USA$100,000138%
Lift Inc$100,00030%
The Genocide Education Project$90,000165%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles$80,00080%
The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress$80,00010%
Rock the Vote$75,00013%
Westside Guild of Children's Hospital$75,000116%
Arpa Foundation for Film Music and Arts$75,0002n/a
The Voter Participation Center$75,00010%
Armenian Relief Society of Western USA Inc$75,00012%
One Mind$75,0001n/a
Women Make Movies Inc$75,00011%
Takreem USA Inc$75,000212%
Foundation for the Los Angeles Community Colleges$69,00012%
The Womens Media Center Inc$65,00015%
Los Angeles Waterkeeper$60,00023%
Race to Erase Ms$60,00051%
Our House Grief Support Center$50,33013%
The Paros Foundation$50,00013%
Communications Consortium Media Center$50,000112%
St Joseph Center$50,00010%
The David Foster Foundation$50,0001n/a
West Los Angeles Area Police and Community Together Inc$50,000133%
University of Oregon Foundation$50,00010%
Once Upon a Time Foundation$50,0001n/a
La Compost$50,00016%
Islamic Center of Claremont$50,0001n/a
Student Press Law Center$50,00016%
Pomegranate Foundation$50,000186%
ARPA Institute Inc$50,000125%
The New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children$50,00012%
Windward School$50,00010%
US Armenian Council For Human Rights Inc$50,000134%
Soh-Us$50,000136%
Camp del Corazon Inc$50,00017%
Eyeshine$50,000122%
Kindred Spirits Care Farm$49,0001n/a
Voice of San Diego$45,00021%
Luzerne Music Center Inc$45,00021%
Oahu Waterkeeper$45,000216%
Onegeneration$40,00010%
Proyecto Pastoral$40,00011%
Open Paths Counseling Center$40,00014%
Center for Community Change$40,00010%
Friends of Ballona Wetlands$40,0001n/a
Flintridge Center$40,00012%
Women's and Children's Crisis Shelter$35,00012%
Type Media Center Inc$35,0001n/a
PS Science$30,00016%
Vet Voice Foundation Inc$30,0001n/a
La Goal$30,00014%
Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc$30,00010%
The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund$30,00010%
Piece by Piece$28,0001n/a
Blood Cancer United Inc$25,00010%
City of Hope$25,00020%
Birthright Armenia Inc$25,00012%
School on Wheels Inc$25,00011%
City of Hope National Medical Center$25,00010%
826 National Inc$25,00012%
Sonoma Family Meal$25,00011%
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles$25,00010%
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc$25,00010%
American Friends of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra$25,00020%
The Dominguez Dream in Memory of H Frank Dominguez$25,00018%
Facing History & Ourselves Inc$25,00010%
Freedom Loving Youth Inc$20,00016%
Boys & Girls Clubs of America$20,00020%
Safe Place for Youth Inc$20,00010%
Catholic Charities of Los Angeles Inc$20,00010%
Skid Row Housing Trust$20,0001n/a
Peace 4 Kids$19,50011%
Venice Family Clinic$17,43210%
Heal the Bay$15,00010%
Parish Catalyst$15,00012%
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles$15,0001n/a
Jazz Hands for Autism$15,00012%
Painted Brain$12,5001n/a
First Assembly of God$12,0001n/a
Ucla Black Alumni Association$10,00015%
The Alliance for Climate Protection$10,00010%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center$10,00010%
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration$10,00011%
San Diego Humane Society and Spca$10,00010%
Epilepsy Foundation of Greater Los Angel$10,00011%
College Track$10,00010%
University of Washington I Advancement Operations$10,0001n/a
Associated Students Ucla$10,00010%
Beautify Earth Corporation$10,00014%
Venice Family Clinic Foundation$10,00010%
Lee Initiative Inc$10,00010%
Sonoma Land Trust$10,00010%
American Friends of Lubavitch$10,00010%
Food Forward Inc$10,00010%
The Ocean Foundation$10,00010%
Repairers of the Breach$10,00010%
Body Traffic$10,00010%
Children's Burn Foundation$10,00010%
Friends of Oliver Inc$10,00019%
Project Information Literacy Inc$10,0001n/a
Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego$10,00010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10,00010%
Learning Lab Ventures Inc$10,00013%
Central City Association of Los Angeles$5,32010%

Where it is load-bearing

Ucla Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 25 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOpportunity 180: $37,300,000 over 4y, 82% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $15,000,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetValley Children's Hospital: $15,000,000 over 1y, 1.6% 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 budgetTrinity College: $4,000,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetThe Museum At Belcourt Inc: $4,000,000 over 4y, 95% 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 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 budgetArmenian Wounded Heroes Fund Inc: $1,150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSpread the Word Nevada: $1,150,000 over 2y, 7.5% 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 budgetSkyhook Foundation: $700,000 over 5y, 57% of budgetParker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy: $700,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCreative Armenia: $700,000 over 3y, 95% 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 budgetJeremiah Program: $500,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAmerican University: $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of California Berkeley Foundation: $475,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArmenian Assembly of America Inc: $450,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetGreater Los Angeles Veterans Research and Education Foundation: $400,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Ucla Foundation

How much does Ucla Foundation give?
Ucla Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $536,735,441 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 66 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Ucla Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (95%), Health (1%), Philanthropy (1%).
Who are Ucla Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Regents Univ of California ($3.1B), Opportunity 180 ($37M), Teach for America Inc ($15M).
Does Ucla Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Ucla Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, Liberty Hill Foundation.
Where is Ucla Foundation based?
Ucla 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 250 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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