Your generosity is crucial to CU's mission. With your vision and passion, we are ensuring a Colorado that is economically powerful, physically healthy, culturally rich and socially cohesive for decades to come.
Here's how we're doing that.
to support student scholarships, facilities,
research, community programs and more.
total given to Senior Class Gifts
collectively at 3 campuses.
An endowment is a gift to support CU that lasts forever. Each endowment at CU generates stable support for an individual university priority that's specified by that endowment's donor. Thousands of individual endowments benefit CU in a variety of ways, including scholarships, research, health and wellness programs, faculty chairs and more.
The collective value of CU's endowment is $1.36 billion and it's built from thousands of individual endowments created by donors. Because endowments are invested for long-term growth and managed under stringent guidelines, the university benefits from reliable streams of income in perpetuity.
The CU Foundation transferred $188 million to CU, including current gifts, endowment distributions, funds for capital projects and support for CU Advancement operations.
Earning and maintaining the confidence of our donors is critical to our success. You invest not only to make a difference, but also because you know you are contributing to an organization that is well managed and a prudent steward of your investments.
the FY18 total return for the Long
Term Investment Pool ("LTIP")
The CU Foundation prudently invests donors' endowments in the LTIP, which is invested in a diversified portfolio of assets.
Here is a comparison of the LTIP's annualized investment performance against the policy benchmark.
The LTIP's $1.67 billion is invested in a diverse portfolio of asset classes with a long-term strategic investment horizon. Here is the proportion of investment by asset class.