For Humanity Campaign Report 2023–2024
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
A Note from the President
Fundraising Highlights, Fiscal 2024
On June 30, 2024, Yale closed the third year of its five-year, $7 billion For Humanity campaign, which has so far raised $5.8 billion for university priorities. Alumni, parents, and friends supported the university in a variety of ways—such as giving to the Yale Alumni Fund, sharing their intentions to support Yale through their estate plans, participating in their class reunion gift, and volunteering.
Financials
Commitments by Category, Fiscal 2024
Commitments by Source, Fiscal 2024
Annual Giving
Giving Totals, Fiscal 2024
Reunion Giving
Giving Totals, Fiscal 2024
Parent Giving
Giving Totals, Fiscal 2024
The Yale Endowment
Yale’s endowment is a key resource supporting professorships, scholarships, curriculum development, and other essential functions of the university. Yale’s spending and investment policies provide substantial levels of cash flow to the operating budget for current needs while preserving endowment purchasing power for future generations.
In fiscal 2024, the endowment contributed $1.94 billion to the university’s operating budget. This figure represents 35 percent of Yale’s net revenues. With new gifts and a 5.7 percent investment return, the endowment’s value was $41.44 billion as of June 30, 2024.
Giving to the Endowment
*Other Categories includes Art and Library Acquisitions ($0.1M); Facilities and Maintenance ($0.3M); Teaching and Faculty Support ($2.1M).
Impact of Gifts to the Endowment
Effect of Investment Performance on Gifts
Volunteers
The For Humanity campaign brings the worldwide Yale community together.
From across the globe, alumni, parents, and friends join together to advance a shared purpose: to create a better world through supporting Yale. Volunteers help fundraise for the Yale Alumni Fund, class reunion gifts, and the overall For Humanity campaign. Campaign volunteers include five co-chairs, honorary chairs, a campaign committee, regional advisory groups, and groups focused on key audiences and key priorities such as support for students, Yale’s collections, and innovation.
For Connection
Brett Zbar ’94
Chair, Yale Alumni Fund Board of Directors
“Every year, Yale alumni join together in giving back to the place that helped shape us. Through our impact we support more than Yale—we are opening doors for students, we are supporting world-changing research, and we are investing in a brighter future.”
Daniel Shen ’14
Member, Class of 2014 10th Reunion Gift Committee
“Through serving on this year’s reunion gift committee, I not only had an incredibly fun time reconnecting with classmates but I also witnessed our collective success in both paying it forward for future Yalies and fostering our shared legacy.”
Chris McGowan and Sandy Wang P ’24
Chairs, Parents Leadership Council
“We know that, with a Yale education, today’s students will go on to make a difference in the world no matter where their paths may lead. We are proud to join with many other Yale parents to help enhance the undergraduate experience for current students and generations to come.”
For Humanity Campaign Committee
Alumni Fund Board of Directors
Parents Leadership Council
For Students
Donors are the key.
Financial aid opens doors, enabling students to study at Yale and to follow their intellectual and artistic interests to create a better world. Thanks to growing support for scholarships and fellowships, every part of Yale is becoming more affordable for students. For example, at the Divinity School, every student with demonstrated financial need now receives a full-tuition scholarship. And at the School of Medicine, the average student debt upon graduation is less than one-third of what it was at the start of the For Humanity campaign.
Financial Aid by the Numbers
During the For Humanity campaign, Yale has an ambitious goal of raising $1.2 billion for university-wide student scholarships and fellowships. From the start of the campaign through June 30, 2024, donors had contributed more than $935 million, or 78 percent of the target.
Giving Spotlight
The Next Generation of Climate Leaders
Support for Scholarships at Yale School of Nursing
Celebrating Peter Salovey
For Excellence
Giving creates a better Yale and a better world.
Midway through the For Humanity campaign, the impact of giving is visible on campus, from galleries to laboratories to residential spaces. Donor giving touches every part of Yale and every part of the educational experience. Giving supports groundbreaking research, brings world-class faculty to campus, and creates an environment where students can thrive. The research, teaching, and learning happening at Yale today will improve the world for generations to come, and it is all made possible thanks to donors.