How much did UCLA FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of UCLA FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

catholictheatercreative

2020

offeringafrican alumnicrisisstabilitycrossroadsjob trainingfilmmakers

2021

oceanrady children'sheart diseaseprotectionstewardshipland conservationgastroenterology

2022

saint john'scenter'smeetrelationseithercancer diabetesautism

2023

oliverboyle heightsinclusionbloodoxfordfivevalley

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k15 grants · $320k
$50k–250k18 grants · $1.8M
$250k+24 grants · $415M

$115,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.5B

Total assets

Largest grants

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES$366,922,404
TEACH FOR ALL INC$12,000,000
CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000,000
OPPORTUNITY 180$5,000,000
ARMENIAN GENERAL BENEVOLENT UNION$3,700,000
TEEN CANCER AMERICA INC$2,053,654
LEARNING ALLY INC$2,000,000
FULFILLMENT FUND OF LAS VEGAS$2,000,000
ARMENIAN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC$1,750,000
WESTERN PRELACY ARMENIAN$1,500,000
AURORA HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE FOUNDATION INC$1,300,000
THE MUSEUM AT BELCOURT INC$1,000,000
GEFFEN PLAYHOUSE$1,000,000
UCLA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$784,602
PARKER INSTITUTE FOR CANCER IMMUNOTHERAPY$500,000

02The need

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 (FY18–23, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.1B · 64 repeat orgs$13M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

64 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2023, 29 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.1B

$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%

+29%

Still filing today

88%

87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther

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
3× · 2021–2023 · $26M · revenue +5651% · 82% of their budget
TF
Teach for All Inc
2× · 2022–2023 · $14M · revenue +139%
WP
Western Prelacy
5× · 2019–2023 · $8.4M · revenue +40% · 57% of their budget

Funded once

AF
Armenia Fund Inc
one grant, 2021 · $1.1M · revenue -67%
TI
TheSentryorg Inc
one grant, 2022 · $365k · revenue -4%
ZI
Zoryan Institute
one grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -79% · 92% of their budget

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.

Ucla Foundation

The mission of the ucla foundation is to actively promote philanthropy and manage donated resources for the advancement of ucla.

Education

Armenian Cultural Foundation

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University of California

To raise and manage private funds to support uci's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service.

Education

Armenian Media Network

The armenian media network's mission is to publish and archive media and data for the purpose of community circulation as well as education and advocacy.

Education

Armenian Cultural Foundation

Establish educational and cultural centers FOR the Armenian people and their culture.

Arts & Culture

Hollywood Foreign Press Association

Philanthropy

Los Angeles Review of Books

The los angeles review of books is a non profit multimedia literary, educational, intellectual, and cultural arts project that combines serious book reviews and essays with the evolving technologies of the internet, promoting and…

Education

Associated Students Ucla

Student-centered provider of services, programs, products, and facilities for the ucla community.

Education

Los Angeles Opera Company

See part iii and schedule othe los angeles opera company (la opera) is a non-profit entity organized to provide an opportunity for all to enjoy the rich emotional and cultural experience of opera.

Arts & Culture

California Academy of Sciences

To regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration

Arts & Culture

Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles

The foundation is the largest manager of charitable assets and leader in planned giving solutions for greater los angeles jewish philanthropists through its various programs.

Philanthropy

Museum Associates

To serve the public through the collection, conservation, exhibition and interpretation of significant works of art from a broad range of cultures and historical periods, and through translation of these collections into meaningful…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Los Angeles Veterans and the most unlike its peers is Armand Hammer Museum of Art and. 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.

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 27 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%1/170

the rest of the field

12%

22,289/186,808

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.

05the grantee network

158 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

151/158

Grantees still filing

111/158

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,000,967,724Education$52,441,132Arts & Culture$17,188,195Philanthropy$13,468,159International$6,758,689Human Services$4,022,500Youth Development$2,473,654

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.

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 FoundationCA40.3× affinity35 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 · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Armenian General Benevolent Union · The Ahmanson Foundation · Mina & Hacob Shirvanian Family · Armenia Empyrean Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Weingart 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 organisation 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: My Step Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 833770334 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on My Step Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Ucla Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ucla Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UCLA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

158 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ucla Foundation?

More from the funding graph

UCLA FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

158 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ucla Foundation?

More from the funding graph