Endowment
An endowment gift connects you to UCLA Athletics in significant and powerful ways. Your donations help award student-athlete scholarships, sustained elite performance, and operational costs each year.
How Endowments Work
With the leadership and financial expertise of the UCLA Foundation driving us, we invest your gift. The principle remains untouched. Each year, we use the distribution – like dividends on a mutual fund account – to support student-athletes and programs. Investment returns above the distribution rate help value of the endowment increase over time.
Endowment Return Math
$1,000,000
Endowment
Gift
4.5%
Distribution rate
$45,000
projected funds in early years
As the principle grows, the distribution increases
Types of Endowments
Scholarship Endowments
Scholarship endowments fund academic support including room, board and tuition.
Program Endowments
A program endowment supports a specific sport or a student-athlete service area, enabling UCLA Athletics to create future sustainability within sport operations.
Head Coach Endowments
Head coach endowments supply UCLA Athletics with a perpetual source of income that helps to provide the resources needed to attract and retain the nation’s top student-athletes, coaches and staff.
Women of Westwood
Supporting women’s sports, Women of Westwood is a group endowment is established by a donor that wishing to encourage other UCLA Athletics supporters to contribute to women’s programs. Use of funds is determined by the SWA and AD. Currently, the fund is being used to support post graduate scholarships.
Excellence Funds
An excellence fund is a pool of endowed funds, consisting of financial gifts each less than $25,000.