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University of California San Francisco Foundation

Public charity · Grantmaker San Francisco, CA EIN: 94-2829914 Website

University of California San Francisco Foundation at a glance

In short: University of California San Francisco Foundation gave $498.2M across 2 grants in 2025 (avg $249.1M), mostly in California. Source: 2025 IRS Form 990.

Annual giving (2025)
$498,194,782
+14.3% vs 2024
Grants made (2025)
2
+0.0% vs 2024
Average grant
$249,097,391
+14.3% vs 2024
Median grant
$249,097,391
Total assets
$4,595,441,099
+6.9% vs 2024
Primary geography
California (100% of itemized 2025 grant dollars)
Latest 990 filing
Form 990, 2025 View filing

Data from IRS Form 990, 2025; updated September 2026.

Who University of California San Francisco Foundation funds

How this funder distributes its grants

Top Recipients

Top 2 recipients in 2025

Regents of the University of California: $497.0MRegents of the University ofCalifornia$497.0MOakland children's hospital and research center: $1.2MOakland children's hospitaland research center$1.2M

The largest 2025 recipient was Regents of the University of California ($497.0M). Together the top 2 received $498.2M.

Grant Size Distribution

10 grants across all recorded years

<$50K$50–100K$100–250K$250–500K$500K–1M5$1–5M5$5M+

The most common grant size was in the $1–5M range: 5 grants of 10 (50%).

Geographic Focus

Where this funder awards grants

Grant Distribution by State

1state

Share of 2025 grant dollars across all 2 itemized grants.

States

Cities

OaklandOak Park

How University of California San Francisco Foundation gives

  • Giving held roughly steady from 2022 to 2025 (+14%). Method

From the foundation's IRS Form 990 filings. Methodology.

Giving History

Giving Over Time

Total grant dollars and number of grants per year

$0$200M$400M$600M2 grants2019 3 grants2020 2 grants2021 2 grants2022 2 grants2023 2 grants2024 2 grants2025

From 2019 to 2025, annual grant giving ranged from $337.2M (2019) to $498.2M (2025). In 2025 it made 2 grants totaling $498.2M.

Grants by year

Grant recipients and amounts by year

RecipientPurposeAmount
Regents of the University of California Oakland, CAsee part iv$496,994,377
Oakland children's hospital and research center Oakland, CAsee part iv$1,200,405
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Financial History

Multi-year comparison from IRS filings

Figures from IRS filings, by filing year
Filing yearTotal AssetsRevenueExpensesGrants paidGrantsNet Investment Income
2025$4,595,441,099$573,647,446$526,867,633$498,194,7822$124,344,025
2024$4,297,314,489$574,922,520$458,159,850$435,817,2772$132,730,455
2023$4,124,944,445$1,092,986,749$489,361,171$469,244,1032$58,669,066
2022$3,470,872,567$722,538,462$456,673,714$436,563,0482$123,340,263
2021$3,419,389,574$724,265,070$388,067,730$369,897,6422$159,948,164
2020$2,557,473,942$575,614,253$418,031,263$405,463,6153$56,974,189
2019$2,304,662,869$380,474,338$347,428,711$337,159,2742$16,169,103

About University of California San Francisco Foundation

Based on IRS filings

University of California San Francisco Foundation is a public charity focused on Education, based in San Francisco, CA. IRS filing data is available from 2019 through 2025. As of 2025, the organization holds $4.6B in total assets. In 2025, it awarded 2 grants totaling $498.2M. Net investment income was $124.3M.

Focus Areas

Leadership & Key People

Officers and directors from IRS filings

University of California San Francisco Foundation is led by samuel hawgood, President on every filing since 2019; none of the 51 officers listed in 2025 report compensation.

Officers on the 2025 filing

  • samuel hawgood

    President

    On filings since 2019

    5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • DANA Emery

    Board Chair

    Director → Vice Chair, 2022

    Vice Chair → Board Chair, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • barbara bass bakar

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Carl Kawaja

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Carmen Policy

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • connie chen

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • fred cohen

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • George Marcus

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jaclyn Safier

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Peter Briger Jr.

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Philip Hammarskjold

    Director

    Director → Board Chair, 2021

    Board Chair → Director, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • sameer gandhi

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Shahan Soghikian

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • todd carter

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • william h davidow

    Director

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Andrew Ballard

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Diane Morris

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • dipanjan deb

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • kathryn hall

    Director

    On filings since 2020

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ian McKinnon

    Director

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Meyer Malka

    Director

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • phyllis coulter

    Director

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Ruchi Sanghvi

    Director

    On filings since 2022

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • allison bhusri

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Andre Iguodala

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Divesh Makan

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • huifen chan

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Joyce Newstat

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • jp conte

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Lydia Shorenstein

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Nellie Levchin

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Richard Kimball

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • stephanie dimarco

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • susan bloch

    Director

    On filings since 2023

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Alex Waxman

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Jason Werlin

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • mei chen

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Mikey Hoag

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Neeraj Arora

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Paul Paradis

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Rebecca Henderson

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Rebecca Lin

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Roger Kuo

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • Sue Tunnell

    Director

    New on the 2025 filing

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • John Gardner Trimble

    Assistant Secretary

    On filings since 2019

    12 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • Kenneth Hao

    Vice Chair

    Director → Vice Chair, 2025

    On filings since 2019

    1 hr/week

    No compensation reported

  • joseph calger

    Assistant Treasurer

    On filings since 2021

    12 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • michael s clune

    Former Interim Treasurer

    Interim Treasurer → Former Interim Treasurer, 2023

    On filings since 2021

    No compensation reported

  • paul velaski

    Secretary

    On filings since 2021

    12 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • erin gore

    Treasurer

    On filings since 2022

    5 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

  • erin hickey

    Vice President

    On filings since 2022

    12 hrs/week

    No compensation reported

Former officers (30)
  • Former: william s fisher (2019–2024) — Director
  • Former: john ford (2019–2023) — Former Vice President
  • Former: julia hartz (2019–2023) — Director
  • Former: arthur kern (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: george scangos (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: jennifer arnett (2019–2022) — Vice President
  • Former: Joan Weill (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: Lisa Pritzker (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: lynne benioff (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: paul jenny (2019–2022) — Treasurer
  • Former: richard m rosenberg (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: rick kimball (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: Steven Read (2019–2022) — Director
  • Former: michael kahn (2021–2022) — Director
  • Former: catherine freidman (2022) — Director
  • Former: Amy McKnight (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: Andrew Ach (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: Brian Grossman (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: Jason Moment (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: Kaushal Shah (2019–2021) — Assistant Treasurer
  • Former: Nancy Hellman Bechtle (2019–2021) — Vice Chair
  • Former: Robin Richards Donohoe (2019–2021) — Director
  • Former: John Stephens Downs (2019–2020) — Secretary
  • Former: William E. Oberndorf (2019–2020) — Board Chair
  • Former: Shahan Sogohkian (2020) — Director
  • Former: Amanda M. Wallis (2019) — Director
  • Former: Andrew K. Woeber (2019) — Director
  • Former: Faustino Bernadett Jr. MD (2019) — Director
  • Former: Nion McEvoy (2019) — Director
  • Former: Selina Gaw Cha (2019) — Director

Data from IRS Form 990 filings, 2019–2025. "On filings since" is the earliest filing we hold that lists the person; hours are average hours per week as reported.

Frequently asked questions about University of California San Francisco Foundation

How much does University of California San Francisco Foundation give each year?

University of California San Francisco Foundation gave $498.2M across 2 grants in 2025, according to its 2025 IRS Form 990. In 2024 it gave $435.8M across 2 grants.

How large is University of California San Francisco Foundation?

University of California San Francisco Foundation reported $4.6B in total assets on its 2025 IRS Form 990. Its revenue that year was $573.6M.

What is University of California San Francisco Foundation?

University of California San Francisco Foundation is a public charity focused on Education, based in San Francisco, CA. It holds $4.6B in total assets as of 2025.

Where does University of California San Francisco Foundation operate?

University of California San Francisco Foundation has awarded grants in California.

What is University of California San Francisco Foundation's EIN?

University of California San Francisco Foundation's EIN (Employer Identification Number) is 94-2829914. IRS Form 990 filing data is available on this page for 2019–2025.

Data last updated September 2026. Sourced from IRS Form 990 filings.

Data update history

(7)

When this profile's IRS filing data changed on Grantable

  1. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2023 (received by the IRS May 15, 2024)
  2. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2024 (received by the IRS May 16, 2025)
  3. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2025 (received by the IRS May 18, 2026)
  4. Added Form 990 for fiscal year 2019 (received by the IRS July 6, 2020)
  5. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2020 (received by the IRS May 17, 2021)
  6. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2021 (received by the IRS May 13, 2022)
  7. Updated Form 990 for fiscal year 2022 (received by the IRS May 15, 2023)

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