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UC LAW SF FOUNDATION

UC LAW SF FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,874,128 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,315,695). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

Revenue FY2025
$7.0M
Funders on record
77
Grants received
$22M
Net assets
$3.4M
48/77 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 71%
01What it does

What Uc Law Sf Foundation does

Mission

To advance the academic and reputational success of uc college of the law, san francisco ("the college") through collaborative and impactful fundraising initiatives.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. Institutional support: provided grants to uc college of the law, san francisco to enrich the academic program and provide for opportunities in legal education that would otherwise not occur without private support. The two largest block grants provide for the fundraising and the alumni outreach operations at the college. Over 50 events and print materials (such as the donor annual reports and reunions) were delivered. The block grants were used for all fundraising solicitations and donor relations throughout the year.

    $6,519,136 spentof which $6,519,136 as grants
    91% of program spending
  2. Student scholarships & loans: funded the bridge fellows program, and smaller programs such as moot court, journal awards, etc.

    $613,356 spentof which $613,356 as grants
    9% of program spending
  3. Various student services: provide scholarship and loan funds for students, research grants for faculty, and other grants for various programs of uc college of the law, san francisco.

    $19,522 spentof which $19,522 as grants
    0% of program spending

The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $7,152,014.

02The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($4.6M) Expenses 100 ($4.6M) Net assets 100 ($604k)2018 Revenue 100 ($4.5M) Expenses 99 ($4.6M) Net assets 96 ($577k)2019 Revenue 115 ($5.2M) Expenses 87 ($4.0M) Net assets 302 ($1.8M)2020 Revenue 246 ($11M) Expenses 177 ($8.1M) Net assets 810 ($4.9M)2021 Revenue 117 ($5.3M) Expenses 151 ($7.0M) Net assets 560 ($3.4M)2022 Revenue 255 ($12M) Expenses 267 ($12M) Net assets 433 ($2.6M)2023 Revenue 156 ($7.1M) Expenses 150 ($6.9M) Net assets 469 ($2.8M)2024 Revenue 167 ($7.6M) Expenses 150 ($6.9M) Net assets 592 ($3.6M)2025 Revenue 155 ($7.0M) Expenses 158 ($7.3M) Net assets 567 ($3.4M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (158)Net assets (567)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $1.8M to $5.0M (+172%).

$604k
$577k
$1.8M
$5.0M
$3.4M
$2.6M
$2.8M
$3.6M
$3.4M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

100% of UC LAW SF FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 12,352 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

−$60k
’17
−$41k
’18
$1.2M
’19
$3.1M
’20
−$1.7M
’21
−$725k
’22
$193k
’23
$701k
’24
−$216k
’25
0.1
months of
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.

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Listed494946494646454346
Joined·+26+8+13+4+6+7+5+8
No longer listed·26111076875
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 15 funders to 28 funders, grant income rose $1.1M → $2.8M.

31 of 77 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 56% 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 UC LAW SF FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 77 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

UC LAW SF FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% 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

70% 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 UC LAW SF FOUNDATION.

15%
largest funder
36%
top three
~15
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 28% · 2019 15% · 2020 18% · 2021 11% · 2022 25% · 2023 21% — broadly stable.

“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

57% of UC LAW SF FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

56% of UC LAW SF 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 $9.7M that is directly attributable, 62% of it comes from California funders.

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MI
NY
IA
PA
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AR
NC
DC
HI
OK
TX

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $12M arriving through sponsors registered in 16 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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

UC LAW SF FOUNDATION's revenue grew 55% between 2017 and 2025.

Operating margin−3% · below the median
Months of reserve0.1mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

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05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 0%Fundraising 1%

Governance

44
board members
98%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

76%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • Uc College of the Law San Francisco · exempt

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Questions and answers

Who funds UC LAW SF FOUNDATION?
UC LAW SF FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 77 organizations whose IRS filings report $21,874,128 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($3,315,695). 48 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 56% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does UC LAW SF FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 77 organizations giving $21,874,128 in grants to UC LAW SF FOUNDATION, 48 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UC LAW SF FOUNDATION?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $3,315,695 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UC LAW SF 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 77 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing