California · Nonprofit
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,023,154 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,113,299). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $107M
- Funders on record
- 170
- Grants received
- $65M
- Net assets
- $593M
What Uc Santa Barbara Foundation does
Mission
The Uc Santa Barbara Foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. The foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. On behalf of the campus, the foundation raises and administers funds that support ucsb's objectives of teaching, research, and public service. The foundation also provides counsel and general assistance to the campus, its students, faculty, and staff.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
University programs/other disbursements. Funds are provided to the university of california, santa barbara which assumes fiduciary responsibility for actual disbursement for department support, instructors, research and special projects.
$34,563,737 spentof which $34,563,737 as grants77% of program spendingScholarships and awards monies were transferred from the Uc Santa Barbara Foundation to the university of california, santa barbara in support of scholarships and awards. The university of california, santa barbara assumes fiduciary responsibility for awarding and administering the funds.
$6,203,388 spentof which $6,203,388 as grants14% of program spendingThe foundation raises, records and manages gifts from individuals, corporations, organizations and foundations for the sole benefit of uc santa barbara in accordance with donors' wishes. The foundation pays a percentage of awards received, referred to as gift fees, and a percentage of endowment earnings, known as endowment fees, to uc santa barbara to reimburse for personnel services and use of facilities provided to the foundation.
$4,331,014 spentof which $4,331,014 as grants10% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $45,098,139.
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 $332M to $438M (+32%).
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.
92% of UC SANTA BARBARA 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. 0 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.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 34 funders to 60 funders, grant income fell $5.2M → $5.0M.
45 of 170 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $3.8M from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Santa Barbara Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 170 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 SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% 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
45% 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 SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 23% · 2019 16% · 2020 54% · 2021 34% · 2022 14% · 2023 34% — growing more concentrated.
“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
48% of UC SANTA BARBARA 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
75% of UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 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
UC SANTA BARBARA 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 UC SANTA BARBARA 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
80%
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 4 related entities
- University of California Santa Barbara · exempt
- Regents of the University of California · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (4) · corp_trust
- Charitable Remainder Annuity Trust · corp_trust
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION?
- UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 170 organizations whose IRS filings report $65,023,154 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($11,113,299). 97 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 170 organizations giving $65,023,154 in grants to UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION, 97 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $11,113,299 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UC SANTA BARBARA 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 170 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