The Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program

Private support is crucial to Iowa athletics. The UI Department of Intercollegiate Athletics covers all or part of tuition for each scholarship student-athlete. Accordingly, as tuition, room and board, and fees -- as well as the number of UI student-athletes -- have accelerated in recent years, so have scholarship expenses to the athletics department, severely stretching available resources.

Fortunately, Hawkeye fans are helping to bridge the financial gap by generously covering more of these scholarship costs. Endowed scholarship gifts through the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program have enabled Iowa's intercollegiate athletics programs to move forward even in the face of rapidly increasing expenses.

The UI is grateful for the visionary support of alumni and friends who have demonstrated their pride in the athletic and academic success of all Hawkeye student-athletes by establishing named, endowed scholarships, while also forever linking their name with the proud Iowa Hawkeye tradition.

More information

• Program goals
• How you can help
• Ways to establish an endowed scholarship
• Endowed Hawkeye scholarships and recipients
• Scholarship donor stories

Intercollegiate athletic scholarship endowment funds provide financial support in perpetuity for University of Iowa Hawkeye student-athletes. Unlike annual I-Club contributions or athletics operations revenue (such as ticket or concession sales), the gifts that establish endowed scholarships are not spent.

Instead, those resources are carefully invested and only the spendable earnings from the investment are used to fund the scholarships each year in accordance with donors' long-term wishes. The amount made available to UI athletics continues to accrue, providing crucial scholarship support for generations of Hawkeye student-athletes.

The goal of the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program is to work with Iowa Hawkeye supporters to secure sufficient resources to endow each student-athlete scholarship in every sport.

Your investment in the future of Hawkeye athletics can permanently endow a variety of student-athlete scholarships. Following are some examples of support levels within the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program:

Visionary Level
A gift of $400,000 or more provides a named, endowed scholarship for a specific team position (tuition and fees, room, and board). For example: the John and Jane Doe Football Running Back Scholarship.

Leadership Level
A gift of $200,000-$399,999 provides a named, endowed scholarship for a specific sport (tuition and fees, room, and board). For example: the Doe Family Women's Basketball Scholarship.

Sustaining Tuition Level
A gift of $50,000-$199,999 provides a named, endowed partial scholarship, but not for a specific sport or position. For example: the Jane and John Doe Athletics Scholarship.

You can make your gift to the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program through a variety of means:

• Outright gift or multi-year pledge of cash or appreciated securities
• Bequest in a will or trust
• Charitable remainder trust, gift annuity, or other life income gift
• Designation of the UI Foundation as beneficiary of a qualified retirement plan, IRA, pension benefits, or annuity
• Gift of life insurance
• Creative combination of the above

Please consider how you can support the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program today. Your gift is an investment that will pay important dividends for future generations of student-athletes and the University they represent. Thank you!

If you would like more information about supporting the Hawkeye Visions Endowment Program, please contact:

Andy Piro
Senior Director of Development, Intercollegiate Athletics
The University of Iowa Foundation
P.O. Box 4550
Iowa City, Iowa 52244-4550
(319) 335-3305 | (800) 648-6973
andy-piro@uiowa.edu