A Banner Year for Dartmouth Philanthropy

Dartmouth received $163.8 million in total philanthropic support in the 2013 fiscal year, which ended June 30, and set a record in annual giving through the Dartmouth College Fund and the annual funds at Dartmouth’s professional schools of business, engineering, and medicine...

...The 2013 total, made up of annual fund gifts from alumni, parents, and friends of the College and Dartmouth’s three professional schools, as well as restricted gifts to the endowment, surpasses the five-year average of $155.4 million. Annual gifts and endowment income underwrite approximately 35 percent of the overall operating budget...

...The Thayer School of Engineering Annual Fund received a record $1.2 million in gifts from alumni, with 30.3 percent participation. The total bested last year’s $1.1 million...