VIPs
This couple is Cornell's largest benefactor.
Richard & Norma Small
The annual donation amount required to be included in Presidents Society.
$2,000+
The college achieved a major milestone when the endowment recently reached this amount.
$100 million
The number of colleges in the ACM.
14
The total number of donors in FY24.
2,583
This person founded Cornell College in 1853.
Reverend George Bryant Bowman
This is the only requirement for a donor to be eligible for the Heritage Society.
A documented planned gift.
The minimum amount to name and endow a fund.
$50,000
The names of our three closest ACM peers by proximity.
Coe (18 miles), Grinnell (65 miles), Luther (85 miles)
The total number of new Cornell Fund donors in FY24.
396
This is the largest outright capital donation Cornell has received. The name of the space and donor.
Jean Russell - Russell Science Center
This is the requirement to qualify as a loyalty donor.
Giving any amount in 4 of the last 5 fiscal years.
The number of individual endowed funds at Cornell.
690
This is the average enrollment of the ACM colleges.
1,500 students
This is the percent of the student body who were fund beneficiaries in FY24.
99.9%
The number of recorded consecutive years our longest loyalty donors have given to the college.
41
There are two levels of the 1853 Society of Lifetime Giving. These are the minimum lifetime gift values of the two levels.
George Bryan Bowman Founders Circle $1M+
William Fletcher King Circle $500K-$999,999
The dollar amount of new gifts to the endowment in FY24.
$7.3M
This is the average acceptance rate of the ACM colleges.
50%
Rates range from 11-80%
The total dollar amount raised in FY24.
$15,111,551.69
The names of the members of the Board of Trustees.
Tahllee Baynard '97
Gretchen Liebenow Buchmeyer '88
Steven DeAngeles '84
Thomas Durham '77
Felecia Turner Epps '80
Stephanie Froehlich '05
Jeffrey Jensen '81
Maureen Johnson '87
Frances Kao '85
Makayla Kelleher '23
John McGrane '73
Warren Mack '66
Kimberly Maitland '24
Jerry Ringer '59
Scott Ririe '79
Scott Simmer '73
Sheryl Atkinson Stoll '70
Jan Thomas '80, P'13
Kevin Weiss '76
Lauren Williams '22
Matt Shelton '96
Jonathan Brand
These are the four types of giving societies (Hint: the four L's).
Leadership, Loyalty, Legacy, and Lifetime
This is the amount of Cornell's operations that are supported by the endowment (percent or dollar amount).
5.24% or $4,403,939
Grinnell College has the largest endowment of the ACM colleges valued at this much.
$2.5 billion
The amount required to donate a named commemorative tree.
$3,000