How colleges fared in their fund raising last year: a statistical snapshot

Sources and Purposes of Private Support for Higher Education
	2005	2006	Percentage change*
Sources of support:
Alumni	$7,100,000,000	$8,400,000,000	+ 14.6%
Nonalumni individuals	5,000,000,000	5,700,000,000	+ 10.4%
Corporations	4,400,000,000	4,600,000,000	+ 1.3%
Foundations	7,000,000,000	7,100,000,000	– 1.7%
Religious organizations	370,000,000	375,000,000	– 1.8%
Other organizations	1,730,000,000	1,825,000,000	+ 2.2%
Purposes of support:
Current operations	14,200,000,000	15,000,000,000	+ 2.3%
Capital purposes	11,400,000,000	13,000,000,000	+ 10.5%
Total	$25,600,000,000	$28,000,000,000	+ 6.0%
* Adjusted for inflation.

Top 20 Colleges and Universities in Total Donations
Stanford University (Calif.)	$911,163,132
Harvard University (Mass.)	$594,941,000
Yale University (Conn.)	$433,461,932
University of Pennsylvania	$409,494,598
Cornell University (N.Y.)	$406,228,837
University of Southern California	$405,745,421
The Johns Hopkins University (Md.)	$377,336,025
Columbia University (N.Y.)	$377,276,204
Duke University (N.C.)	$332,034,301
University of Wisconsin at Madison	$325,938,048
University of California at Los Angeles	$319,580,552
University of Washington	$316,251,912
New York University	$279,918,813
University of Minnesota	$266,991,894
Northwestern University (Ill.)	$253,401,792
University of Michigan	$251,476,551
Indiana University	$247,520,018
University of California at Berkeley	$245,966,241
University of Chicago	$237,117,399
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	$236,579,182
SOURCE: Council for Aid to Education

	Doctoral institutions	Master’s institutions	Baccalaureate institutions	Two-year colleges	All
Chief development officer	$200,100	$125,000	$121,518	$83,955	$125,000
Assistant vice president for development	129,520	99,721	103,500	n/a	112,000
Director of development for institution’s school or college	77,217	66,202	82,500	n/a	71,181
Director of annual giving	75,000	55,700	55,120	52,680	58,181
Director of corporate and foundation relations	89,219	66,812	69,756	79,893	74,343
Director of planned giving	104,275	75,005	75,875	52,313	82,945
Chief public-relations officer	133,237	77,158	69,900	67,344	82,689
Director of publications	77,233	55,120	53,925	60,257	60,869
Associate director of publications	60,000	46,276	43,400	50,787	49,635
Director of government relations	132,000	95,000	71,000	107,124	113,775
Chief development and public-relations officer	181,879	124,960	125,885	82,928	124,920
Director of marketing	85,575	75,738	60,383	58,087	72,100
Director of alumni affairs	96,598	59,002	54,125	51,703	61,678
Director of development and alumni affairs	132,659	72,504	58,213	73,760	72,100
Director of major gifts	105,000	73,493	76,500	63,304	78,294
Director of donor relations	69,079	51,201	51,058	n/a	58,710
Director of advancement research/prospect management	72,441	51,185	53,600	n/a	60,000
Director of church relations	n/a	61,050	53,996	n/a	55,510
Director of community services	73,320	53,114	48,236	58,101	56,900
n/a: Not available.
SOURCE: College and University Professional Association for Human Resources

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