Stewart and Lynda Resnick give UCLA Health $100 million for mental health care

UCLA Health announced on 26 February 2026 that Stewart and Lynda Resnick, the Los Angeles couple who co-own The Wonderful Company, had given $100 million through their foundation to expand mental and behavioral health care. The university described it as the largest single gift it has ever received to advance mental health care.

Most of the money supports the Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital at UCLA, which the couple first helped build with a $15 million gift in 2005. The hospital is moving from the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood to a new campus on West Olympic Boulevard, about six miles to the east. The move will raise the number of inpatient beds from 74 to 119, an increase of about 61 percent, and the new building is due to open in the autumn of 2026. A 20-bed unit for people in acute behavioral health crises is planned to open the following year, and the gift also funds community-based services and research.

The Resnicks built their fortune in agriculture and consumer brands, including Wonderful Pistachios, POM Wonderful and FIJI Water. Stewart Resnick was raised in a Jewish family in New Jersey before moving to California in the 1950s, and Lynda Resnick was born to a Jewish family in Baltimore. According to UCLA, the couple, their companies and their foundation have now given the university close to $200 million over the years, supporting its medical, law and arts and architecture schools and the Hammer Museum. The Chronicle of Philanthropy noted that the pair have appeared on its annual Philanthropy 50 list of the biggest American donors four times since 2008.

UCLA Health leaders said the expansion comes at a time when demand for psychiatric care in the Los Angeles region far exceeds the supply of beds and specialist services.