California · Nonprofit
UCLA FOUNDATION
UCLA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1384 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,329,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION ($143,657,630). 825 of them have funded it in more than one year. UCLA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
UCLA FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programUCLA FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$3.3B
Recipients
250
Contributions on record
$1.1B
Donors on record
1,401
Payments out run 3.1x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio match
- Jae S Lim Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 339 funders to 557 funders, grant income rose $45M → $166M.
113 of 1384 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% 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: $39M from 2 payers (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UCLA FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UCLA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 1384 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.
Where its funders are
83% of UCLA 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. $300M 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 1384 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Beavers Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jae S Lim Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Swinerton Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alice & Jp Wang Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 57 organizations that share your funders
- Brown Universityshared fundersRI · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 51 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 63 organizations that share your funders
- Tisbest Philanthropyshared fundersWA · backs 120 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
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
- Ucla Investment Company · exempt
- University of California Los Angeles · exempt
- Regents of the University of California · exempt
- Charitable Remainder Unitrust (44) · corp_trust
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UCLA 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION?
- UCLA FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1384 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,023,329,000 to it, the largest being THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION ($143,657,630). 825 of them have funded it in more than one year. UCLA FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does UCLA FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 1384 organizations giving $1,023,329,000 in grants to UCLA FOUNDATION, 825 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UCLA FOUNDATION?
- THE DAVID GEFFEN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $143,657,630 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UCLA 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 1384funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing