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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION$5,000,000
CRISTO REY ST VIATOR LAS VEGAS COLLEGE PREPARATOR$5,000,000
LAS VEGAS METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIO$3,100,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$3,000,000
THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$3,000,000
CAMPUS FOR HOPE FOUNDATION$2,500,000
ALTAMED FOUNDATION$2,000,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY INC$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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its 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
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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%
+8%

Still filing today

91%
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
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.

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 +14%
  • 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%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…

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3
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
4
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
5
Alliance for Regenerative Medicine

The alliance for regenerative medicine (arm) is the preeminent global advocate for regenerative and advanced therapies. arm fosters research, development, investment and commercialization of transformational treatments and cures for…

Health
6
Arizona Community Foundation

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

Philanthropy
7
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
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
9
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
10
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
11
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John's Health Center Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

231 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

26
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
226/231
Grantees still filing
125/231
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesNathan Adelson Hospice Inc: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesRETINAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $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 · InternationalARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $1,150,000 · InternationalCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 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 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 for the Future of Learning: $1,500,000 over 1y, 13% 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 budgetSPREAD THE WORD NEVADA: $1,150,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetARMENIAN WOUNDED HEROES FUND INC: $1,150,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetCLOONEY FOUNDATION FOR JUSTICE: $1,150,000 over 4y, 6.2% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 …The Annenberg Foundat…Liberty Hill Foundati…Mina & Hacob Shirvani…The Ralph M Parsons F…United Way of Souther…The Vahik & Alice Pet…Jhm Charitable Founda…Wynn Resorts Foundati…Engelstad Family Foun…George Ignatius Found…Mgm Resorts Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ucla Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ucla Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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