University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · EIN 95-1642394. Reported 435 grants totalling $178.9M to 367 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.
367organizations funded
$75,057median reported grant
$178.9Mgranted, 2020-2023
61%of grantees funded again the next year
7%of dollars to its largest recipient
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For University of Southern California, the IRS classifies it under education rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE B430) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 367 distinct organizations, with 7% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 61% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $75,057. Half of what it reported fell between $21,150 and $388,534; the smallest was $5,030 and the largest $13.3M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
3 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $40,759 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
Every organization it funded
All 367 recipients appear in its filings; the 250 largest are listed here. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- the clearest signal of who this grantmaker actually has a relationship with.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2N Diagnostics | St Louis, MO | $13.3M | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents Univ of California | Los Angeles, CA | $5,142,296 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Hospital Los Angeles | Los Angeles, CA | $4,377,470 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | Ann Arbor, MI | $4,121,309 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Irvine | Irvine, CA | $3,884,413 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Yale University | New Haven, CT | $3,810,466 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at San Diego | La Jolla, CA | $3,306,561 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University | Stanford, CA | $3,164,128 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Banner Health | Sun City, AZ | $3,159,780 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $2,840,564 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, PA | $2,831,330 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| USC Health System | Los Angeles, CA | $2,789,357 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Public Health Institute | Oakland, CA | $2,492,533 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Gonzalez MD & Aswad MD Health Services | Miami, FL | $2,427,051 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Partners | Los Angeles, CA | $2,373,544 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| K2 Medical Research LLC | Maitland, FL | $2,362,510 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Washington University | St Louis, MO | $2,345,079 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $2,315,890 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the Univ of Wisconsin Sys | Madison, WI | $2,207,120 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Alzheimer's Research and Treatment Center | Wellington, FL | $2,069,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $2,022,319 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas City, KS | $1,985,780 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Florida | Gainesville, FL | $1,960,189 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Institute of Technology | Pasadena, CA | $1,842,627 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Washington | Seattle, WA | $1,737,193 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Indiana University | Detroit, MI | $1,700,012 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Emory University | Atlanta, GA | $1,604,342 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, MD | $1,563,001 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kentucky Research Foundation | Lexington, KY | $1,536,116 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wake Forest University Health Sciences | Winstonsalem, NC | $1,524,349 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Columbia University | New York, NY | $1,511,450 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sharp Healthcare Foundation | San Diego, CA | $1,509,427 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | Riverside, CA | $1,468,342 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc | Louisville, KY | $1,451,090 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | New York, NY | $1,446,326 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh, PA | $1,434,504 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Butler Hospital | Providence, RI | $1,430,032 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | Somerville, MA | $1,425,034 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Boston University | Boston, MA | $1,407,345 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Rochester | Rochester, NY | $1,365,439 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Med-Ally LLC | Goose Creek, SC | $1,357,652 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | Minneapolis, MN | $1,331,568 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of California Santa Barbara | Santa Barbara, CA | $1,322,044 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Cleveland Clinic Foundation | Independence, OH | $1,314,179 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rush University Medical Center | Chicago, IL | $1,297,147 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Charter Research LLC | Orlando, FL | $1,276,950 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Summitlab Corporation | Evergreen, CO | $1,245,900 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Eastern Virginia Medical School | Norfolk, VA | $1,239,283 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regenerative Patch Technologies LLC | Portola Valley, CA | $1,204,736 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University Medical Center | Nashville, TN | $1,127,724 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northrop Grumman Systems Corp | Redondo Beach, CA | $1,112,771 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central States Research | Tulsa, OK | $1,059,729 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California at Riverside | Riverside, CA | $1,050,849 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA | $1,035,849 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Compass Research LLC | Orlando, FL | $1,034,245 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Chapel Hill, NC | $1,031,291 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Colorado | Denver, CO | $981,440 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pdf Solution Inc | Santa Clara, CA | $966,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jackson Laboratory | Bar Harbor, ME | $954,420 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northwestern University | Evanston, IL | $949,946 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Methodist Hospital | Houston, TX | $929,675 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Baylor College of Medicine | Houston, TX | $919,456 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Keystone Clinical Studies LLC | Plymouth Meeting, PA | $888,095 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgetown University | Washington, DC | $885,660 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital Inc | Memphis, TN | $868,909 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon Health & Science University | Portland, OR | $863,877 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center | Seattle, WA | $860,098 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lowcountry Center for Veterans Research | Charleston, SC | $801,356 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| National Clinical Research Inc | Richmond, VA | $800,570 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rand Corporation | Santa Monica, CA | $760,325 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Mayo Clinic | Rochester, MN | $750,811 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of Ca Davis | Davis, CA | $742,459 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Case Western Reserve University | Cleveland, OH | $742,347 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Univ of Texas Southwestern Medical Center | Dallas, TX | $738,909 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of South Florida | Orlando, FL | $703,418 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friendsville Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department Inc | Friendsville, MD | $690,322 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northeastern University | Boston, MA | $658,646 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Medipace Inc | Pasadena, CA | $626,262 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Teledyne Scientific & Imaging LLC | Montgomeryville, PA | $600,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lumen Technologies Government Solutions Inc | Herndon, VA | $561,139 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| General Electric Global Research | Niskayuna, NY | $556,509 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois | Urbana, IL | $555,104 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Brain Matters Research LLC | Delray Beach, FL | $532,705 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Texas Health Science Ctr | Fort Worth, TX | $528,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $522,524 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Purdue University | West Lafayette, IN | $521,005 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Leidos Incorporated | Reston, VA | $499,855 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Advanced Clinical Research Network Corp | Coral Gables, FL | $498,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univ of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $495,362 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Acomb Ostendorf & Associates LLC | Winter Park, FL | $493,544 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Ohio State University | Columbus, OH | $482,253 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Notre Dame Du Lac | Notre Dame, IN | $476,094 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| UC Regents - Lawrence Berkeley | Berkeley, CA | $459,445 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kaiser Foundation Hospitals | Oakland, CA | $457,171 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Phi Chi Medical Fraternity Inc | Charleston, SC | $451,970 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Duke University | Durham, NC | $445,952 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Modulo Bio Inc | San Diego, CA | $442,274 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| MD Anderson Cancer Center | Houston, TX | $427,748 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Diagnostic Consulting Network LLC | Carlsbad, CA | $420,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Cincinnati | Cincinnati, OH | $412,169 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc | San Francisco, CA | $407,761 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Columbus Memory Center LLC | Columbus, GA | $404,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Beckman Research Institute | Duarte, CA | $398,846 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Louis University | Saint Louis, MO | $389,164 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ | Blacksburg, VA | $388,534 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Triangle Institute | Durham, NC | $383,336 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renstar LLC | Ocala, FL | $379,645 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New York University | New York, NY | $378,752 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Utah | Salt Lake City, UT | $373,488 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Altamed Health Services Corp | Commerce, CA | $353,676 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Alabama at Birmingham | Birmingham, AL | $351,634 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute | Boston, MA | $333,164 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | W Hollywood, CA | $328,679 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| State University of Iowa | Iowa City, IA | $326,990 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | University Park, PA | $326,980 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ | $315,729 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seattle Institute for Biomedical and Clinical Research | Seattle, WA | $311,212 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shared Spectrum Company | Vienna, VA | $308,470 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Massachusetts | Amherst, MA | $304,298 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Summit Headlands LLC | Portland, OR | $302,850 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California State University Long Beach Research Foundation | Long Beach, CA | $302,353 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $299,364 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Hawaii | Honolulu, HI | $285,369 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Regents of the University of California | Santa Cruz, CA | $282,815 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Bae Systems Information & Elec Sys Integ Inc | Philadelphia, PA | $279,013 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Polysciences Inc | Warrington, PA | $275,964 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Amc Research | Matthews, NC | $272,265 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Lukes Hospital of Kansas City | Kansas City, MO | $265,985 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Duality Technologies | Hoboken, NJ | $261,402 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of New Mexico | Albuquerque, NM | $255,385 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geoacuity | Palos Verdes Estates, CA | $255,098 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Heart Association Inc | Dallas, TX | $250,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Veterans Medical Research Foundation of Sd | San Diego, CA | $247,456 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $243,784 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hrl Laboratories LLC | Malibu, CA | $237,394 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | Pittsburgh, PA | $237,140 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The Univ of Central Florida Board of Trustees | Orlando, FL | $229,343 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Physicians for Social Responsibility Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $226,922 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Scripps Research Institute | La Jolla, CA | $224,220 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Howard University | Washington, DC | $219,133 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rhode Island Hospital | Providence, RI | $218,730 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ict Productions Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $217,678 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Princeton University | Princeton, NJ | $213,315 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Triton Systems Inc | Chelmsford, MA | $208,871 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geometric Progress LLC | Cocoa, FL | $202,621 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rutgers the State University | Piscataway, NJ | $200,599 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Quest Diagnostics Inc | San Juan Capistrano, CA | $195,097 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Kansas Center for Research Inc | Lawrence, KS | $194,765 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ellison Institute LLC | Los Angeles, CA | $186,674 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Redeemer Community Partnership | Los Angeles, CA | $185,704 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | Charlottesvle, VA | $182,854 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Lockheed Martin Corporation | Cherry Hill, NJ | $180,607 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Miami | Coral Gables, FL | $174,879 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| K2 Summit Research LLC | Lady Lake, FL | $174,630 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The University of Arizona | Tucson, AZ | $174,615 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rancho Research Institute | Downey, CA | $172,810 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Advanced Memory Research Institute of Nj Pc | Toms River, NJ | $170,415 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| L C Ind Inc | Durham, NC | $169,098 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Oregon State University | Corvallis, OR | $166,723 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Harvey Mudd College | Claremont, CA | $159,627 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| AIDS Healthcare Foundation | Los Angeles, CA | $159,104 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Tennessee | Memphis, TN | $156,425 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Seattle Childrens Hospital | Seattle, WA | $151,594 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Diego State University Foundation | San Diego, CA | $149,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Project Scientist | San Francisco, CA | $149,400 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| North Carolina State University | Raleigh, NC | $149,344 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Northern Arizona University | Flagstaff, AZ | $148,545 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences | Arlington, VA | $146,682 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation for the State University of New York | Albany, NY | $143,611 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Curii Corporation | Somerville, MA | $143,352 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univ of Texas Southwestern Med Cntr | Dallas, TX | $142,890 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Henry M Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine | Bethesda, MD | $141,688 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Headlands Eastern Ma LLC | Plymouth, MA | $139,930 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soapbox Films LLC | Burbank, CA | $137,036 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of the University of Alabama | Tuscaloosa, AL | $135,912 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Health Research Incorporated Elizabeth Wood | Menands, NY | $133,465 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community Services Unlimited | Los Angeles, CA | $131,040 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Brown University of Providence | Providence, RI | $131,029 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Csu Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation | Fullerton, CA | $129,479 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado School of Mines | Golden, CO | $127,137 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska | Lincoln, NE | $127,114 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Shedd Aquarium Society | Chicago, IL | $126,899 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Merit Network Inc | Ann Arbor, MI | $125,125 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Inferlink Corporation | El Segundo, CA | $125,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Abington Neurological Associates Ltd | Abington, PA | $123,795 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Giant Oak Inc | Arlington, VA | $121,245 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Occidental College | Los Angeles, CA | $119,996 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Japanese American National Museum | Los Angeles, CA | $115,273 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Battelle Memorial Institute | Columbus, OH | $114,815 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Weill Medical College of Cornell University | New York, NY | $111,743 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Colorado State University | Fort Collins, CO | $108,524 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univ of Tx Health Sci Center of San Antonio | San Antonio, TX | $107,626 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School on Wheels Inc | Ventura, CA | $107,560 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Loma Linda University | Loma Linda, CA | $107,073 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Troy, NY | $104,473 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Densho | Seattle, WA | $103,358 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Living Advantage Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $102,120 | 5 | 3 | 2023 |
| Pima Community College | Tucson, AZ | $101,926 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sonoma Technology Inc | Petaluma, CA | $101,598 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trustees of Dartmouth College | Hanover, NH | $100,758 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian | Newport Beach, CA | $97,102 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Louisiana State University | Baton Rouge, LA | $95,610 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | New York, NY | $94,893 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Our House Grief Support Center | Los Angeles, CA | $92,750 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Innovations for Poverty Action | New York, NY | $91,863 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Loma Linda University Health | Loma Linda, CA | $90,942 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 24TH Street Theatre Company | Los Angeles, CA | $90,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Sola Community Peace Center | Los Angeles, CA | $90,440 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Woods Hole, MA | $89,105 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Auburn University | Auburn, AL | $89,094 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Metamersive Inc | San Francisco, CA | $88,766 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Houston | Houston, TX | $84,831 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University | Richmond, VA | $84,699 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Puente Learning Center | Los Angeles, CA | $83,800 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Terc Inc | Cambridge, MA | $82,211 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St Louis | Saint Louis, MO | $81,079 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Nevada Las Vegas (inactive) | Las Vegas, NV | $81,011 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rise Education Fund | Sherman Oaks, CA | $81,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Fulcrum Arts | Pasadena, CA | $80,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| The Raytheon Company | El Segundo, CA | $80,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Syracuse University | Syracuse, NY | $79,688 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Texas A&m Univ | College Station, TX | $78,213 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| CASA Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare | Pomona, CA | $75,574 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Chicago | Chicago, IL | $75,057 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Charlotte, NC | $74,809 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vanderbilt University | Nashville, TN | $74,222 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| US Department of Agriculture | Davis, CA | $72,598 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Geneva Foundation 04-15-93 | Tacoma, WA | $72,218 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Tech Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $71,983 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Symbient Product Development | Vista, CA | $71,940 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Collective Remake Art Business Education Jobs News People and Rec | Los Angeles, CA | $71,400 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vibrant Penguin Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $69,647 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Csula Auxiliary Services Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $69,431 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Abt Associates Inc | Rockville, MD | $68,177 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation | Atlanta, GA | $67,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Iowa State University | Ames, IA | $66,273 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of West San Gabriel Valley | Monterey Park, CA | $66,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness | Los Angeles, CA | $64,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Spintech Inc | Bingham Farms, MI | $60,557 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Univ of Texas at Austin | Austin, TX | $60,497 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Reed Institute | Portland, OR | $58,929 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Vip Community Mental Health Center Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $58,780 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Metrohealth System | Cleveland, OH | $57,643 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Jazz Hands for Autism | Culver City, CA | $57,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $57,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Cordillera Applications Group Inc | Denver, CO | $56,555 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| George Mason University | Fairfax, VA | $56,051 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Los Angeles Lgbt Center | Los Angeles, CA | $53,764 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Wofford College | Spartanburg, SC | $53,321 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Sacred Heart School | Los Angeles, CA | $52,220 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
35 of 367 (10%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 185 of 367 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 31 | $1,667,019 | $22,000 |
| 2021 | 25 | $1,236,920 | $25,770 |
| 2022 | 39 | $2,879,334 | $17,500 |
| 2023 | 340 | $173.1M | $138,483 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
30% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund107 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc90 shared recipientsJohns Hopkins University87 shared recipientsThe Trustees of Columbia University81 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc80 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust70 shared recipients
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $75,057 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from University of Southern California's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 204 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 136 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: University Gardens UGB203, Los Angeles, CA, 90089.
EIN 95-1642394 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.
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