California · Nonprofit
THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 294 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,955,489 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,335,940). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $117M
- Funders on record
- 294
- Grants received
- $110M
- Net assets
- $921M
What The Uc Davis Foundation does
Mission
The mission of The Uc Davis Foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
The foundation's endowment and current use funds provides for scholarships, fellowships, program support, and other support functions of the davis campus of the university of california.
$75,711,617 spentof which $75,711,617 as grants94% of program spendingThe foundation raises, records and manages gifts from individuals corporations, organizations and foundations for the sole benefit of uc davis in accordance with donors' wishes. The foundation pays a percentage of current use awards received, referred to as gift fees, a percentage of endowment earnings, known as endowment cost recovery fees to uc davis to reimburse for personnel services and use of facilities provided to the foundation, and a percentage of endowment earnings known as endowment infrastructure fees to uc davis to reimburse for indirect costs of the endowment payout.
$4,875,994 spentof which $4,875,994 as grants6% of program spendingThe uc davis prize for undergraduate teaching and scholarly achievement is an annual award to recognize faculty excellence. Originated in 1986, the prize honors one uc davis faculty member each year, selected for his or her outstanding achievements as a teacher of undergraduates and a scholar. Each year, a selection committee composed of faculty, students and representatives from The Uc Davis Foundation board of trustees chooses the recipient.
$125,837 spentof which $75,000 as grants0% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $80,713,448.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $549M to $716M (+31%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
91% of THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Deborah J Neff
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 63 funders to 93 funders, grant income rose $5.5M → $14M.
71 of 294 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 294 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 22% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
67% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 29% · 2018 28% · 2019 21% · 2020 46% · 2021 44% · 2022 35% · 2023 23% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
43% of THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
60% of THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $44M that is directly attributable, 72% of it comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $66M arriving through sponsors registered in 29 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 684 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 684 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
87%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 3 related entities
- University of California Davis · exempt
- Regents of the University of California · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Trusts (27) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION?
- THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 294 organizations whose IRS filings report $109,955,489 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($24,335,940). 167 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 294 organizations giving $109,955,489 in grants to THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION, 167 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $24,335,940 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 294 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing