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Los Angeles, home to Wonderful’s global headquarters and nearly 700 employees, is a place where creativity and innovation thrive. Yet, alongside that vibrancy, there is a rising mental health crisis and growing need for accessible care – and, with that, an alarming shortage of inpatient care and local mental health providers. The need is more urgent than ever.
To help address this crisis, Wonderful co-owners Stewart and Lynda Resnick, through their foundation, announced in late February a $100 million gift to UCLA Health, the single largest gift to advance mental health care in UCLA’s history. This gift will dramatically increase access to care, strengthen community-based services, and advance research and innovation, ensuring the delivery of high-quality, comprehensive mental health support across Southern California.
This gift brings the combined lifetime giving of the Resnicks, their companies, and their foundation to UCLA to nearly $200 million, including extensive support over the course of five decades for UCLA’s medical, law, and arts and architecture schools, as well as the Hammer Museum, demonstrating their ongoing commitment to education, health and wellness, and equitable access to the arts.
The Resnicks’ gift will help fund the expansion of mental and behavioral health services at UCLA Health and support the completion of a new neuropsychiatric hospital and mental health campus that will be named the UCLA Resnick Mental Health Campus.
Los Angeles is our home, and too many in our city are hurting. Mental health challenges find their way into almost every family. The UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital has been a haven of hope and healing for ours and for so many others. We are deeply grateful to the doctors, nurses, researchers, and caregivers who stand beside people in their most vulnerable moments. It is our honor to help expand this work so that more families have a place to turn – and feel the strength of a community standing with them.
Lynda and Stewart Resnick
Co-owners of The Wonderful Company
The Resnicks’ funding will expand the existing hospital by 61%, increasing capacity from 74 to 119 beds, and will add a new 20‑bed unit designed to diagnose and stabilize patients experiencing acute behavioral health crises.
The new hospital – the UCLA Stewart and Lynda Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital – is expected to open in fall 2026, in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles, followed by completion of an upgraded medical office building. The crisis stabilization unit is expected to open in 2027.
The UCLA Resnick Mental Health Campus will house many outpatient programs for adults and children and will include gardens, group therapy areas, sensory rooms, and other landscaping and infrastructureto create a healing environment for patients and their families.
“This extraordinary investment transforms our ability to serve the Los Angeles-area community,” said Johnese Spisso, president of UCLA Health and CEO of the UCLA Hospital System. “By expanding inpatient services and integrating outpatient and community-based programs, we will be able to serve more people in need. The impact of this campus will be felt across our region for generations.”
“Stewart and Lynda Resnick’s generosity strengthens UCLA Health’s ability to expand and innovate in mental health care, while deepening our connection to the broader Los Angeles community,” said UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk. “At a moment when the need for accessible, high-quality mental health services has never been greater, their commitment reinforces the link between research, clinical care, and community well-being. Thanks to the Resnicks’ philanthropy, UCLA will be able to extend hope and healing to even more patients and families.”
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