California · Nonprofit
UNIVERSITY CAMPS
UNIVERSITY CAMPS (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $925,442 to it, the largest being The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold ($233,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.1M
- Funders on record
- 47
- Grants received
- $925k
- Net assets
- $1.4M
What University Camps does
Mission
Unicamp student volunteers harness the healing power of the wilderness to provide a unique outdoor camping experience for at-risk children. Through relationship-building, leadership and character development, and just plain fun, unicamp delivers challenging new experiences that foster personal growth, transform lives, and help campers and students reach their full potential.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
University Camps provided a resident summer camp experience for underserved children in the los angeles area. 547 children attended during the fiscal year ending 09/30/2025. We also provided a leadership training program for ucla student volunteers to serve as counselors. 242 volunteers were trained and attended during the fiscal year ending 09/30/2025.
$773,389 spent$344,996 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $773,389.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $1.3M to $1.7M (+25%).
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2021 23% · 2022 3% · 2023 4% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 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.
Chief executive
Jason Liou
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $50k → $95k.
7 of 47 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 17% 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 UNIVERSITY CAMPS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 47 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 CAMPS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
44% 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 CAMPS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 33% · 2019 40% · 2020 48% · 2021 44% · 2022 34% · 2023 26% — 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
11% of UNIVERSITY CAMPS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 34% 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
87% of UNIVERSITY CAMPS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $160k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
Organizations like UNIVERSITY CAMPS
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for UNIVERSITY CAMPS: 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 UNIVERSITY CAMPS?
- UNIVERSITY CAMPS (California) receives grants from 47 organizations whose IRS filings report $925,442 to it, the largest being The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold ($233,500). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNIVERSITY CAMPS have?
- IRS filings report 47 organizations giving $925,442 in grants to UNIVERSITY CAMPS, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY CAMPS?
- The Sheila Dave & Sherry Gold Foundation CO Jeff Gold is the largest funder on record, with $233,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNIVERSITY CAMPS 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.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 47 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