CU’s Fund-raising Record Shattered
June 6, 2007
The University of Colorado today announced that the $125 million it raised in fiscal year
2007 shattered by more than $32 million the record for the best fund-raising year in the
institution’s 131-year history.
The best fund-raising year was 2000, when CU donors provided $93 million in support of
its campuses.
The university’s fund-raising total comprises gifts to the University of Colorado
Foundation (accounting for some three-quarters of the total, including alumni giving and
major gifts), to the CU Real Estate Foundation and directly to the university.
“Setting this record shows the renewed confidence our donors and alumni have in CU’s
world-class faculty, researchers and educational experience,” said CU President Hank
Brown. “The individuals, foundations and corporations who are investing in CU students
and faculty are also investing in the future of our state and nation.”
The $93 million raised by the Foundation to date (the fiscal year ends June 30) is a 76
percent increase over fiscal year 2006. Of that, the number of total donors is up 12
percent (to 40,707) and the number of alumni donors is up 19 percent (to 20,420).
“The success we’re seeing in every facet of our fund-raising operation reflects the trust
our donors have in the leadership of the university and their belief that the money they
give will make a real difference for our faculty and students,” said CU Foundation
President/CEO Wayne Hutchens.
Notable gifts for the year include:
The Anschutz Foundation donated $25 million, part of a total gift of $91 million
that led the university in November to rename the Aurora campus of the
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center the Anschutz
Medical Campus.
Leroy Landhuis facilitated a $5.2 million real estate gift to benefit University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs, the largest gift in the history of the campus.
The Charles C. and June S. Gates Family Fund donated $4.25 million to establish
a regenerative medicine and stem cell biology program, regenerative lab
equipment and an endowed chair at the University of Colorado at Denver and
Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC), helping to recruit one of the country’s
renowned stem cell researchers.
The Koelbel Family has pledged $4 million to assist with the expansion and
renovation of the University of Colorado Boulder Leeds School of Business. In
honor of the support, the building will be named for the family.
An anonymous gift of $2.5 million to endow the Children, Youth and
Environments Center for Research and Design in the College of Architecture and
Planning at (UCDHSC). It is the largest gift by an individual donor in the history
of the university’s downtown Denver campus.
Dick and Jean Engebretson committed $1 million to support renovation and new
construction at the CU-Boulder Leeds School of Business.
MDC Holdings Foundation donated $1 million to establish the Gilbert Goldstein
Fund, which will provide scholarships and fellowships to law students and faculty
at the Law School at CU-Boulder.
The University of Colorado is a three-university system with campuses in Boulder and
Colorado Springs, and a Denver and Health Sciences Center campus located in
downtown Denver and at the former Fitzsimons Army Base in Aurora. CU is a premier
teaching and research university, ranked sixth among public institutions in federal
research expenditures by the National Science Foundation. Academic prestige is marked
by CU’s four Nobel laureates, seven MacArthur “genius” Fellows, 18 alumni astronauts,
19 Rhodes Scholars and CU-Boulder’s ranking of 11th best public university and 34th best
overall university in the world by the Institute for Higher Education.
