UI comprehensive campaign by the numbers

Posted October 3, 2003

Main news release: UI campaign passes $660 million mark

Overview

Total campaign dollar goal:
$850 million

Total gift commitments as of October 1, 2003:
$661 million, an extraordinarily high 80 percent of the $661M is in outright gifts or assured future gift commitments
(More information: Charts illustrating campaign progress)

Progress toward goal:
78 percent

Number of contributors (since January 1, 1999):
97,164

Campaign period:
January 1, 1999, through December 31, 2005 (7 years)

Campaign time period elapsed:
68 percent

Campaign milestones
(since January 1, 1999, launch)

• Five gifts of $10 million or more (Roy J. Carver Charitable Trust, Henry Tippie, Holden family, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead, Marvin and Rose Lee Pomerantz), totaling more than $150 million; prior to the campaign's launch in 1999, the foundation had received no gifts at this level
• 95 gift commitments of $1 million or more
• 46 percent increase in numbers of gifts (to 105,648 in 2002, compared to 72,138 in 1998)
• 32 percent increase in annual alumni giving (from 11 percent in 1998 to nearly 15 percent in 2002)
• 30 percent increase in annual outright gifts (to $67.5 million in 2002, compared to $52 million in 1998)
• 29 percent increase in the number of annual contributors (to 60,873 in 2002, compared to 47,191 in 1998)
• 34 percent of the outright gifts ever received by the UI Foundation have been made during this campaign ($292 million during the campaign period, out of $860 million total since 1956)
• Campus Campaign (active phase concluding 12/31/03) has increased the number of UI faculty and staff who have made a gift to the UI from 15 percent to 25 percent, with more than $20 million in gift commitments from faculty and staff during the course of the campaign

Progress toward featured campaign goals

Student support

• $107 million raised toward $142 million goal (70 percent)
• 60 new Presidential Scholarships (endowments of $100,000 or more)
• 100 percent increase in funding available to the UI for student aid since the campaign began

Faculty support

• $87 million raised toward $189 million goal (43 percent)
• 76 new endowed faculty positions created
• 39 percent increase in number of endowed faculty positions (268 today compared to pre-campaign baseline of 192)

Facilities support

• Private funding completed on six new UI facilities, providing more than 440,000 square feet of state-of-the-art classroom, lab and meeting space to UI students, faculty, staff and visitors:
1. Medical Education and Research Facility
2. Carver Biomedical Research Building
3. Seamans Center for the Engineering Arts and Sciences
4. Gerdin Athletic Learning Center
5. Carver Mississippi Riverside Environmental Research Station
6. UI Athletics Hall of Fame (Roy G. Karro Building)
• Fund-raising in progress for eight other projects (new construction and renovation):
1. Adler Journalism and Mass Communications Building
2. Art and Art History Building
3. Blank Honors Center
4. Glenn Schaeffer Library (Dey House addition for Writers' Workshop)
5. Pomerantz Center
6. Old Capitol renovation
7. President's House renovation
8. Athletics facilities

Programmatic support

• $240 million raised toward $201 million goal (111 percent)
• Includes major gift support for areas such as Hancher Auditorium, the UI Libraries, intercollegiate athletics and biomedical research

Unrestricted support

• $10 million raised toward $30 million goal (30 percent)
• Provides resources to be used by the UI President for campus-wide areas of greatest need

Annual/sustaining support

• $123 million raised toward $150 million goal (77 percent)
• Funds are directed by alumni and other contributors to ongoing funding needs in UI colleges and other units

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UI campaign passes $660 million mark