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Endowments are permanent funds that provide support for 吃瓜网 in perpetuity. By establishing a scholarship endowment, you are making a gift that will help 吃瓜网 students for generations to come.

You can create your own named scholarship endowment fund with (1) a gift of $50,000 or (2) a $50,000 pledge payable over no more than five years. As you make gifts into your scholarship fund, your gifts will form the 鈥渃orpus鈥� of the endowment. The corpus will be invested by 吃瓜网 with the goal to grow the 鈥渕arket value鈥� of your fund. The market value of any endowed fund is the corpus, plus the net investment return on the endowment, minus any endowment distributions.

The endowment distribution is the amount of money distributed from the endowed scholarship fund each year to be used as 鈥渢he scholarship.鈥�

吃瓜网鈥檚 Board of Trustees sets the 鈥渟pending rate鈥�. The spending rate is applied to the market value of each endowed fund and the resulting figure is the endowment distribution.

The current 鈥渟pending rate鈥� set by the Board of Trustees at their October 2021 meeting is 5.3%.^* Thus, an endowed scholarship fund with a market value of $50,000 will produce a scholarship of $2,650. An endowed scholarship fund with a market value of $100,000 will produce a scholarship of $5,300.

As more gifts are received into the endowment fund from you or other donors (adding to the corpus), and as investment returns grow the market value, the endowment distribution will similarly grow because the spending rate of 5.3% will be applied to a greater market value.

^*The spending rate is subject to change with Board approval.

Pursuant to our gift policy, endowed funds begin to make distributions one year after the fund is fully endowed, that is, once the corpus of the fund reaches $50,000.

You and the University will execute a gift agreement which will govern the naming and the use of your fund. You can name the fund for yourself, your family, or a favorite professor. Many donors will designate that their scholarship benefit students majoring in a particular academic discipline, or be used for their Rome Semester. Other scholarships are 鈥渦ndesignated鈥�.

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Anyone can contribute to your scholarship fund, but the scholarship will still be governed by the terms of the gift agreement you have executed with 吃瓜网. The more gifts you or others make to your fund, the more students 吃瓜网 can help!

You will receive an endowment report every year detailing the gifts you have made into your fund, the market value of your fund, the endowment distributions made from the fund, and how the endowment distribution was used. We also encourage all students receiving scholarships to write to the donors of their scholarship. We also facilitate meetings between donors and scholarship recipients when you visit campus.

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We encourage you to look at a list of existing endowed scholarships and support the scholarship of your choosing. We would welcome additional gifts of any size to any of those existing endowments. The more gifts we receive, the more students we can help!