The Irvine Company is a 140-year-old, privately held real estate investment company best known for the balanced, sustainable communities it has planned and created on The Irvine Ranch in Orange County, California.

For more than four decades, imaginative, deliberate, and thoughtful planning has reigned supreme on The Irvine Ranch -- from award-winning schools located close to homes to retail centers around the corner that offer fun and eclectic choices of merchants. The ranch also boasts job-rich business centers that attract the nation's leading companies. All of this is in addition to a legacy of parks, trails and wild open spaces that comprise more than half the historic 93,000-acre ranch.

It is a planning philosophy that has earned international acclaim for its ability to anticipate, and then meet, long-term community needs, offering a quality of life that is loved -- and lovingly protected -- by the people who make The Irvine Ranch their home.

Once a community is complete, The Irvine Company continues to support it in many ways. Through contributions of time, ideas and financial resources, the company invests and reinvests in programs, institutions and organizations that meet human needs and make Irvine Ranch communities special places to live.

Since master planning on The Irvine Ranch began in 1960, The Irvine Company and the Donald Bren Foundation have contributed more than $200 million to public schools on The Irvine Ranch and to institutions of higher education, including UC Irvine. In addition, they have made in-kind donations of thousands of acres of priceless land that now constitute much of the parks and permanently preserved natural areas on the 50,000-acre Irvine Ranch.