>>4643243 pb colleges/FFRDCs
That link I provided shows colleges- there are several in California (UCLA is a big one). Try searching the name of the college but the site doesn’t make it easy if I remember right- you almost have to look through it by year. Could also search federalregister.gov by college name or look for news articles on colleges/federal research money received.
Here’s the other link again:
https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/ffrdclist/