The following nonprofit research centers and universities have hosted the West Coast Nonprofit Data Conference:

Caster Family Center for Nonprofit and Philanthropic Research, University of San Diego
Host year: 2015

Center for Civil Society, University of California at Los Angeles
Host year: 2004 and 2009

Center for Nonprofits & Philanthropy, Bush School, Texas A&M University
Host year: 2021 (online)

Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University
Host year: 2018

Evans School of Public Policy and Governance, University of Washington
Host year: 2017

Institute for Nonprofit Management, Portland State University
Host year: 2010

Institute for Nonprofit Organization Management, University of San Francisco
Host year: 2005

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Studies, University of San Diego
Host year: 2007

Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation, Arizona State University
Host years: 2008, 2019 and 2024

Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services, University of California at Berkeley
Host year: 2013

Nancy Bell Evans Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy, University of Washington
Host year: 2006

Nonprofit, Community, and Leadership Initiative, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Host year: 2016

RGK Center for Philanthropy & Community Service, Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin
Host year: 2021 (online) and 2022

School of Government and Public Policy, University of Arizona
Host year: 2011

School of Planning, Public Policy and Management, University of Oregon
Host year: 2023

School of Sociology, University of Arizona
Host year: 2011

Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California
Host year: 2014

University of Colorado
Host year: 2012