California · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 803 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,564,101 to it, the largest being GERSON BAKAR FOUNDATION ($540,895,100). 444 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $574M
- Funders on record
- 803
- Grants received
- $2.1B
- Net assets
- $4.0B
What University of California San Francisco Foundation does
Mission
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the life sciences and health professions, and excellent patient care. The ucsf foundation and its volunteer board of directors support ucsf's core mission by raising private funds for the university. Ucsf is devoted at every level to serving the public in san francisco and beyond. It delivers a substantial national and global impact by training the next generation of scientists and health care professionals, conducting breakthrough research, translating scientific discoveries into exceptional care, and making health advances more accessible to vulnerable populations. Gifts from private donors keep ucsf among the top health-science universities in the world by enabling the university to attract and retain top faculty members and students, funding research that leads to groundbreaking discoveries, and supporting the delivery of world-class, compassionate care. The university of california, san francisco foundation (the foundation) encourages and…
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
In 2025, distributions to ucsf and related affiliates totaled $498 million. Distributions are based on ucsf's programmatic needs, subject to gift restrictions and the funds available in any particular year. They include transfers of gifts intended to fund capital projects, gifts for other purposes, and endowment income. 2025 distributions for capital projects - bakar research and academic building - totaled $1 million. Noncapital distributions supporting research, faculty, institutional support, medical center, teaching hospital, instruction, student financial aid and academic support needs totaled $497 million.
$498,194,782 spent100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $498,194,782.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 $2.6B to $3.4B (+34%).
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.
78% of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO 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 8 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
DANA Emery
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 189 funders to 281 funders, grant income rose $86M → $358M.
97 of 803 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 35% 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: $15k from one payer (an institutional transfer, not a grant programme, largest That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION raised.
From the IRS filings of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 803 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
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left
42% 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 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 18% · 2018 34% · 2019 34% · 2020 33% · 2021 37% · 2022 25% · 2023 27% — 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
38% of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
89% of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO 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. $744M arriving through sponsors registered in 30 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
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 679 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 679 education nonprofits over $100M, FY2025
Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO 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
66%
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 7 related entities
- University of California San Francisco · exempt
- UCSF Family House · exempt
- Oakland Children's Hospital and Research · exempt
- UCSF Foundation Investment Company · exempt
- truebridge capital venture partners llc · partnership
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION?
- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 803 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,116,564,101 to it, the largest being GERSON BAKAR FOUNDATION ($540,895,100). 444 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 803 organizations giving $2,116,564,101 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION, 444 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION?
- GERSON BAKAR FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $540,895,100 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO 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 2018–2025), and the filings of 803 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