California endowments

California endowments covers 61 FY2025 survey respondents with combined reported endowment assets of USD 109,443.966 million. Stanford University has the largest value in this selection, USD 40,786.000 million, representing 37.27% of its total. All values use the same published NACUBO survey year.

This state list follows the location field for each survey respondent. For California, a foundation or system office may be the reporting address for assets serving several campuses. The location identifies the respondent and does not allocate every dollar to the city where it is headquartered. Public and private respondents appear together to show the range of institutional structures in the state.

Survey rankInstitution or respondentState / provinceFY2025, USD millionsFY2024, USD millions
3Stanford UniversityCA40,786.00037,631.000
10The Regents of the University of CaliforniaCA20,147.05619,103.077
22University of Southern CaliforniaCA9,028.3528,145.120
34UCLA FoundationCA4,766.8184,298.619
37California Institute of TechnologyCA4,317.2004,144.800
49University of California Berkeley FoundationCA3,394.1763,112.308
50University of California San FranciscoCA3,291.3592,948.456
53Pomona CollegeCA3,220.5132,991.629
99University of California San DiegoCA1,792.3801,588.912
105Santa Clara UniversityCA1,668.6221,555.250
118Loma Linda UniversityCA1,441.8881,345.998
124Claremont McKenna CollegeCA1,353.9301,240.369
133Pepperdine UniversityCA1,293.2901,295.880
161University of California Irvine FoundationCA1,028.000899.357
170Chapman UniversityCA929.386810.601
188UC Davis FoundationCA865.367770.401
193University of California Santa BarbaraCA830.353665.899
196Loyola Marymount UniversityCA793.492722.705
200University of San DiegoCA766.650714.021
208University of the PacificCA726.502643.177
212Occidental CollegeCA698.372654.297
230Scripps CollegeCA536.115503.038
242Harvey Mudd CollegeCA499.658454.550
244The Campanile FoundationCA488.793459.561
296The RAND CorporationCA345.760313.048
299California Polytechnic State University-San Luis ObispoCA335.818296.447
333California State University FresnoCA277.344254.837
336University of RedlandsCA273.056253.550
347California State University NorthridgeCA249.514229.624
360San Jose State UniversityCA231.146203.628
370California State University Long BeachCA216.653132.909
371Claremont Graduate UniversityCA215.525205.678
376Pitzer CollegeCA206.383191.808
378Cal Poly Pomona Philanthropic FoundationCA203.796186.731
392Mount Saint Mary's UniversityCA187.365165.202
393San Francisco State University FoundationCA186.394174.846
394California Baptist UniversityCA186.078157.607
398ArtCenter College of DesignCA181.003151.618
416California State University FullertonCA162.083148.677
421California Lutheran UniversityCA157.607144.054
481The University Foundation California State University ChicoCA111.06997.902
498Westmont CollegeCA102.94492.162
512The University Foundation at Sacramento StateCA96.40986.421
525Foundation For California Community CollegesCA88.14882.567
548Sonoma State University FoundationCA76.79270.467
558California State University Los AngelesCA71.20262.523
579California State University San BernardinoCA62.98357.615
581Keck Graduate InstituteCA62.60758.446
583Foothill-De Anza Community Colleges FoundationCA61.63155.494
595California State University Monterey BayCA56.47743.462
606Cal Poly Humboldt FoundationCA46.68044.065
607California State University Bakersfield FoundationCA46.51042.735
615California State University San Marcos FoundationCA45.07336.560
620Golden Gate UniversityCA43.93548.899
621California State University Channel IslandsCA42.69835.088
632The California State University FoundationCA38.20135.857
651California State University-Dominguez HillsCA28.55726.547
652California State University East BayCA28.00121.940
656California State University Stanislaus FoundationCA22.40520.530
664California State University Maritime AcademyCA17.89619.155
667Monterey Peninsula College FoundationCA13.95112.585

Source: FY2025 NACUBO respondent table. Values in the source are thousands of U.S. dollars; this table divides by 1,000 to show millions.

The selection contains 49 linked institution profiles. Rows without a profile keep the institution's name as plain text. The ranking is based on reported market value. It does not measure investment skill, the amount available for unrestricted spending or endowment assets per student. Institutions participate voluntarily, so this is a comparison of respondents in the published table rather than a census of all charitable funds.

Reading the values

The FY2024 column is the prior-year value published alongside FY2025. A difference between the columns includes gifts, investment activity and distributions, with possible transfers or reporting changes. It is not the institution's investment return. A newer official figure in an institution profile may use another fiscal year, a different portfolio or a broader accounting category. The common-year table keeps those newer figures out of the size ordering.

A system and a campus can both appear as respondents. Supporting foundations may also report separately or within a combined institution-and-foundation amount. Their assets can overlap, so the sum above describes the rows selected here and should not be interpreted as a consolidated total for an entire state or sector. The profile pages provide the reporting names and dates needed to read those relationships.

Hospital and health system profiles

These hospitals and health systems are not NACUBO survey respondents. Their values come from each organization's own reporting period and are not part of the survey totals above.

List rankInstitution or systemTypeStateEndowment, USD millionsPeriod end
10Cedars-Sinai Medical Centeracademic medical centerCA1,731.160June 30, 2025
17Children's Hospital Los AngeleshospitalCA816.536June 30, 2025
20City of Hopeacademic medical centerCA701.177September 30, 2025
28Lucile Packard Children's Hospital StanfordhospitalCA554.747August 31, 2025
47Rady Children's Hospital San DiegohospitalCA285.355June 30, 2025
51Sutter Bay HospitalshospitalCA258.271December 31, 2024
61Hoag Memorial Hospital PresbyterianhospitalCA190.498December 31, 2024
73Memorial Medical Center Foundationhospital foundationCA124.623June 30, 2025
85Riverside Community Health Foundationhospital foundationCA95.087December 31, 2024
92Montage Health Foundationhospital foundationCA78.255December 31, 2024
118Stanford Health CarehospitalCA49.836August 31, 2025
148St Joseph Hospital of OrangehospitalCA35.429December 31, 2024
164St. Jude HospitalhospitalCA30.732December 31, 2024
170Vna Health Foundationhospital foundationCA28.426December 31, 2024
177Coronado Hospital Foundationhospital foundationCA27.276September 30, 2025
180Children's Hospital of Orange CountyhospitalCA26.594June 30, 2025
191Eisenhower Medical CenterhospitalCA23.746June 30, 2025

Full list: Hospital endowments list

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