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Alumni Giving and Other Donations At HBCUs

When the Council for Aid to Education announced last week that charitable contributions to U.S. institutions of higher education had grown by 9.4 percent in 2006, much of the news focused on schools like Stanford and Harvard universities, not historically Black colleges and universities.

That’s because the response from HBCUs to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey conducted by the Council for Aid to Education was extremely low. The 1,014 institutions in the survey, representing one-third of the nation’s four-year institutions, included just 19 HBCUs.

Sources of support include alumni giving, donations from non-alumni individuals, foundation grants and corporate donations. The study also found that gifts for capital purposes, including endowments and for buildings, increased by 14 percent in 2006. Donations of stock to a core group of 517 institutions rose 3.4 percent. The study also found that endowments for the schools that participated in the study in each of the last two years increased 15.2 percent.

Here’s what HBCUs reported:

Historically Black Colleges and Universities/ FY2006

1

Morehouse College (Atlanta, Ga.)

$25,998,039

2

Univ. of Texas at El Paso (El Paso, Texas)

$13,702,772

3

Meharry Medical College (Nashville, Tenn.)

$9,799,345

4

North Carolina A & T State University (Greensboro, N.C.)

$8,393,511

5

Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.)

$6,415,238

6

Prairie View A&M University (Prairie View, Texas)

$5,759,647

7

Cuyahoga Community College (Cleveland, Ohio)

$5,401,469

8

North Carolina Central University (Durham, N.C.)

$3,711,631

9

Winston-Salem State University (Winston-Salem, N.C.)

$2,995,953

10

Morehouse School of Medicine (Atlanta, Ga.)

$2,075,575

11

West Virginia State University (Institute, W.V.)

$1,310,877

12

University of Maryland Eastern Shore (Princess Anne, Md.)

$1,306,808

13

Fayetteville State University (Fayetteville, N.C.)

$1,174,217

14

Elizabeth City State University (Elizabeth City, N.C.)

$944,385

15

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania (Cheyney, Pa.)

$610,098

16

Kentucky State University (Frankfort, Ky.)

$435,644

17

Coppin State College (Baltimore, Md.)

$388,441

18

Grambling State University (Grambling, La.)

$362,855

19

Bowie State University (Bowie, Md.)

$215,114

  

Source: Council for Aid to Education survey, 2007

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