Philanthropic gifts to American colleges and universities totaled $78 billion in Fiscal Year 2025, a 4% increase over the prior year, according to the newest figures from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s Voluntary Support of Education survey.
The annual CASE survey, generally regarded as the definitive source about philanthropic support for nonprofit and public higher education institutions in the United States, covered charitable giving to 670 schools (representing about 17% of the nation’s colleges and universities) between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.
CASE breaks out the dollars reported by survey participants into two categories—funds received and new funds committed. It then uses those survey results to estimate the national level of philanthropic support for higher education institutions in the United States, including those that did not participate in the survey.
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