UC Davis Foundation

UC Davis Foundation

The UC Davis Foundation plays a vital role in ensuring UC Davis’ excellence by actively promoting philanthropy and managing donated resources for the advancement of the university. The UC Davis Foundation gratefully accepts philanthropic contributions on behalf of UC Davis, disburses these contributions according to the expressed wishes of the donors, and invests and manages contributions to optimally protect and enhance their financial value, including both current-use funds and permanently invested endowment funds.

Philanthropic support helps to ensure UC Davis’ high quality of teaching, research and public service, as gifts leverage and enhance the state of California’s critical core support to the university. Examples of charitable contributions that are accepted through the UC Davis Foundation include scholarships and fellowships for students, chairs and professorships for faculty, support for research and academic and student programs, gifts to build or enhance facilities, unrestricted gifts that can be used wherever the need is greatest to meet emerging priorities, and gifts for other UC Davis priorities.

As a nonprofit corporation, the foundation is recognized under federal and state tax laws as a qualified recipient of tax-deductible charitable contributions. It operates under the auspices of the Regents of the University of California.

2008—9 Philanthropic Support to the UC Davis Foundation

The impact of the UC Davis Foundation is far-reaching. The foundation’s efforts to raise the visibility of philanthropy were vital to UC Davis’ third consecutive year of gift support surpassing $100 million. Of the $108.1 million in total philanthropic support that UC Davis received in 2008-09, 24 percent, or $25.6 million, was given through the UC Davis Foundation, with the rest given through the UC Regents.

As of June 30, 2009, the foundation had $240 million in net assets. Of that amount, $137 million was held for endowment.

Kevin Bacon ‘72, chair of the foundation beginning July 1, 2010, says the organization plays a vital role in helping the university. “As an alumnus and trustee, I am proud of my association with the UC Davis Foundation. By raising and stewarding philanthropic funds, we actively support the academic mission of the university. Donors provide scholarships and other funding to our students, important additional resources to advance faculty scholarship and financial support to our outreach that benefits California and the world. It’s inspiring to me to see how philanthropic giving helps extend the university’s ability to do great things.”

Please visit the UC Davis giving site for a complete list of UC Davis Foundation trustees.