Knowledge for the World: By the Numbers
Dates of campaign: July 1, 2000 to Dec. 31, 2008
Original goal: $2 billion (surpassed December 2005)
Final goal: $3.2 billion (surpassed June 2008)
Final total: $3.741 billion
Accomplishments
Number of undergraduate scholarships/graduate student fellowships: 550
Number of endowed professorships: 92
Number of endowed deanships: 1
Total square footage of new/renovated buildings: 4.237 million square feet in 24 buildings
Campaign total amounts by purpose
Student aid: $301 million
Faculty support: $237 million
Program support: $1.01 billion
Research: $1.27 billion
Facilities: $675 million
Unrestricted/undesignated: $242 million
Donor information
Number of donors: 251,031, including more than 45,000 alumni, more than 16,000 parents, more than 6,000 faculty and staff and more than 3,400 foundations.
Geographic information
States represented: 50 (and Washington, D.C.)
Countries represented: 114
Continents represented: 6
Number of first-time givers: 190,088
Number from Maryland: 118,991
Number from outside Maryland: 132,040
Gift Information
Number of gifts: 706,155
Average gift: $5,297
Average gifts per day: $1.2 million (over 3,105 days)
Percent raised inside Maryland: 17.6 percent ($659.99 million)
Percent raised outside Maryland: 82.4 percent ($3.081 billion)
