Officials with the Kansas State University Foundation say donations totaled more than $226.4 million this past year.
The total doesn’t quite match last year’s record total of $235 million in private gifts, but does highlight how strong giving continues to be to the foundation. The value of the university’s long-term investment pool reached $952.3 million as of June 30, the end of the fiscal 2023 calendar. The Foundation says its investment performance has consistently outperformed peer institutions, ranking No. 7 among the nation’s university and college endowments in 2022.
One of the key highlights from the past year saw the university securing $75 million to compete for matching funds from the state of Kansas for K-State’s Ag Innovation Initiative, with the state awarding $25 million in February.
The Foundation started construction on a third office building on Kimball Ave this year, slated for completion next July. A full county-by-county breakdown of giving is listed below.
Other key achievements for the 2023 fiscal year included:
- Donors established 152 new scholarships to address student need.
- A $3 million gift helped Cats’ Cupboard build a new food pantry facility.
- A total of $47.9 million was raised for scholarships and student success overall.
- Donors gave a record-breaking 11 gifts of $5 million or more, as well as 36 gifts of $1 million or more.
- The largest-ever outright corporate gift to Kansas State University was secured at $10 million from General Atomics for the Salina campus.
- The fourth named deanship at Kansas State University, the Eldon Gideon Dean of the College of Agriculture, was established through a $5 million endowed gift.
County Number of donors Contributions Allen 66 $16,120.66 Anderson 50 $14,740.75 Atchison 114 $107,446.75 Barber 49 $23,628.00 Barton 252 $8,458,859.84 Bourbon 39 $13,006.69 Brown 135 $306,023.30 Butler 439 $1,283,355.00 Chase 46 $12,771.00 Chautauqua 11 $950.00 Cherokee 27 $4,892.00 Cheyenne 24 $9,952.00 Clark 29 $246,374.00 Clay 162 $94,679.10 Cloud 122 $198,688.00 Coffey 90 $92,030.91 Comanche 10 $21,350.00 Cowley 146 $80,604.00 Crawford 94 $99,846.41 Decatur 48 $49,884.80 Dickinson 318 $196,456.56 Doniphan 75 $135,744.00 Douglas 505 $1,312,869.75 Edwards 31 $55,711.00 Elk 16 $4,412.00 Ellis 211 $249,902.75 Ellsworth 64 $75,046.00 Finney 248 $572,467.06 Ford 191 $362,349.00 Franklin 175 $424,052.00 Geary 261 $539,772.38 Gove 29 $189,003.86 Graham 16 $15,698.00 Grant 42 $8,775.41 Gray 60 $154,366.00 Greeley 13 $18,314.36 Greenwood 47 $17,819.00 Hamilton 9 $9,090.00 Harper 37 $8,935.00 Harvey 249 $328,353.30 Haskell 45 $108,325.51 Hodgeman 19 $6,475.00 Jackson 131 $1,058,662.55 Jefferson 138 $90,723.30 Jewell 43 $41,638.88 Johnson 5251 $17,776,171.37 Kansas 4 $430.00 Kearny 25 $39,597.00 Kingman 73 $70,377.51 Kiowa 19 $9,186.00 Labette 42 $22,215.00 Lane 27 $20,865.00 Leavenworth 356 $179,106.39 Lincoln 35 $15,288.55 Linn 33 $17,147.00 Logan 33 $90,684.00 Lyon 175 $581,193.72 Marion 101 $48,425.00 Marshall 169 $586,728.51 McPherson 311 $666,797.65 Meade 36 $9,820.00 Miami 227 $1,323,240.90 Mitchell 134 $494,668.00 Montgomery 96 $34,524.00 Morris 126 $345,988.85 Morton 8 $795.00 Nemaha 185 $669,129.50 Neosho 86 $85,569.00 Ness 40 $343,758.00 Norton 37 $16,768.00 Osage 157 $217,272.00 Osborne 51 $42,756.00 Ottawa 91 $148,422.45 Pawnee 63 $130,753.00 Phillips 70 $761,293.00 Pottawatomie 816 $905,589.02 Pratt 123 $494,408.05 Rawlins 29 $7,697.50 Reno 434 $486,723.27 Republic 120 $195,271.64 Rice 85 $51,517.58 Riley 4114 $52,975,729.20 Rooks 44 $20,809.73 Rush 31 $14,263.00 Russell 73 $182,135.00 Saline 737 $2,687,993.97 Scott 82 $1,314,785.57 Sedgwick 2669 $6,136,406.96 Seward 39 $60,007.88 Shawnee 1545 $14,235,488.20 Sheridan 25 $22,025.00 Sherman 39 $38,745.00 Smith 46 $35,526.50 Stafford 39 $9,639.00 Stanton 16 $3,373.00 Stevens 25 $2,865.47 Sumner 135 $90,397.50 Thomas 89 $174,190.00 Trego 25 $26,575.50 Wabaunsee 164 $98,377.30 Wallace 21 $13,607.00 Washington 176 $515,724.34 Wichita 22 $6,910.00 Wilson 36 $20,321.25 Woodson 20 $5,017.00 Wyandotte 328 $452,058.71 Totals 25134 $123,153,315.42
