UW and Oregon have fairly similar income/budgets. Of course most of Oregon's cash comes from one guy, but money is money. I'd imagine UCLA is a bit higher than that. Colorado's is lower.
Chip's problem may be that UCLA (or Colorado, UW, Texas, etc.) won't play the SEC way as far as recruiting and the like, and Oregon will and does. He not only took over a program in much better shape at Oregon, he was almost certainly given a freer hand there by the administration.
UCLA and UW have nearly identical football histories but the UW has gone from the top to the ultimate bottom and back up again in the 20 years since UCLA has won the conference. UCLA should always be 2 through 4 in the conference and competing for #1 with USC, as should UW and (ugh) Oregon at least while Uncle Phil draws breath. Problem is that Stanford, Utah, and WSU have been coached up above their historical standards, and USC and UCLA have not.