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The Stanford
Fund for
Undergraduate
Education
The Stanford Fund is the university’s annual
giving program that supports financial aid,
academic innovation, and student life initiatives
for undergraduates. This unrestricted, discretionary
fund enables the president to respond
to immediate needs, new opportunities, and
fresh ideas. Since annual gifts to The Stanford
Fund can be put to use as they come in, they are
an essential complement to gifts of endowment.
Gifts of all sizes add up to a substantial sum.
In fiscal year 2011–12, more than 33,000 donors
collectively gave over $22 million to The Stanford
Fund. It would take approximately $400 million in
endowment to generate that same level of funding
for undergraduate programs in a single year.
Participation in The Stanford Fund is also an
important indicator of alumni engagement—
a message to university leaders that they can
count on the alumni, just as the students and
faculty are counting on them. A commitment
to annual giving is an ongoing “vote of support”
for Stanford.

How Stanford Fund
Dollars Were
Allocated in 2011–12
80%
Academic Experience
Student Life
13%
7%
Undergraduate Financial Aid
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EACH YEAR, GIFTS TO THE STANFORD FUND ARE ALLOCATED TO TOP PRIORITIES IN UNDERgraduate
education. The fund’s flexibility enables the president to respond to changing
needs and new opportunities. In 2011–12, gifts were used to support undergraduate
financial aid, the academic experience, and student life groups.
Undergraduate Financial Aid ensures that students of the highest caliber are able to
attend the university, regardless of their financial circumstances. The Stanford Fund
plays a key role in filling the gap between scholarship endowment and the growing
need for financial aid.
The need for scholarship support has never been greater. Stanford’s financial aid
budget has more than doubled since 2005–06. More than 3,400 students—roughly
half of the undergraduate population—received need-based scholarships from
Stanford last year. More than a third of them received financial aid directly from
The Stanford Fund.
The Academic Experience is supported by The Stanford Fund’s direct investments in
the Schools of Humanities and Sciences, Engineering, and Earth Sciences. In 2011–12,
support from The Stanford Fund helped increase funding for academic directors—
full-time, professional advisors available to freshmen and sophomores in their
residence halls.
Stanford also welcomed a group of 35 students as the first participants in the new
Leland Scholars Program, a pre-orientation workshop for freshmen pursuing academic
paths in science, technology, engineering, math, or pre-medicine. Gifts to The
Stanford Fund provided seed funding for this pilot initiative of the Office of the Vice
Provost for Undergraduate Education.
Student Life has something for everyone, including the more than 140 student
groups, club sports teams, and public service programs that received funding from
The Stanford Fund last year. A core part of Stanford’s vibrant campus community,
student-run organizations provide valuable opportunities in leadership, team building,
and other skills that prove useful long after graduation.
FINANCIAL AID: DID YOU KNOW?
• Nearly half the undergraduate population receives need-
based aid directly from Stanford.
• More than 1,300 students received support from The
Stanford Fund last year.
• About 30% of undergraduates benefit from the zero-
tuition or zero-parent-contribution policies for families
with annual incomes under $100,000.
• 70% of Stanford’s financial aid budget is devoted to
scholarships for these students.
• All students are expected to help finance their education
by contributing at least $5,000 annually from earnings and
savings, or from outside scholarships, if available.

L. A. CICERO / STANFORD UNIVERSITY NEWS SERVICE
Highlights from
Recent Years
Areas of the undergraduate experience that have benefited from gifts to The Stanford
Fund in recent years include:
• Adding and improving undergraduate housing
• Undergraduate research opportunities
• Haas Center for Public Service
• Club sports
• Studio art classes
• FACES (Forum for American-Chinese Exchange at Stanford)
• Project WRITE (Writing and Reading as Integral Tools for
Education)
• Student a cappella, musical, and dance groups
• Sororities and fraternities
• Big Game Week activities
• Activities sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education, including the new Arts Intensive
program and the Cape Town overseas studies campus
LEADERSHIP GIVING
The Stanford Fund’s most generous annual donors are recognized at
the following giving levels:
President’s Fund
$10,000 or more
($25,000 or more establishes a Stanford Fund Scholarship)
Parent Partners
$1,500 or more from parents of current undergraduates
Leadership Circle
$1,000 to $9,999
Lower levels apply for young alumni:
President’s Fund
$5,000 or more for those five to nine years after graduation and
$1,000 or more for one to four years
Leadership Circle
$500 or more for those five to nine years after graduation and
$100 or more for one to four years
THE STANFORD FUND | STANFORD UNIVERSITY

How to Make a Gift
to The Stanford Fund
GIVING ONLINE
Donors may give to Stanford online at giving.stanford.edu. Features on this website
include:
• The ability for donors to make recurring credit card payments
• Personalized information, including reunions
• Secure access to giving history, including information about pledges,
corporate matching gifts, estate gifts, and gifts from a personal foundation
CREDIT CARD
Donors may use Visa, MasterCard, Discover, or American Express. Credit card gifts
may be made online or by returning a remit card filled out with an account number,
expiration date, amount, and signature.
CHECK
Checks should be made payable to “The Stanford Fund” and be mailed to: Stanford
University, Development Services, P.O. Box 20466, Stanford, CA 94309-0466. The
donor’s full name and class year should appear on the check.
SECURITIES
Gifts of appreciated securities provide attractive tax advantages: Capital gains taxes
are avoided and the full fair market value of the stock may be tax-deductible. For
more information, donors or their brokers should contact:
Gift Securities Team
T 650.926.0244
F 650.926.0312
stockgifts@smc.stanford.edu
MATCHING GIFTS
Matching gifts count toward reunion campaigns and benefit Stanford greatly. The
university does not, however, count matching gifts associated with pledges that
will be paid in the future. Donors should contact their human resources department
to find out if their employer will match their gifts to Stanford.
The Stanford Fund gratefully recognizes donors at honorrolls.stanford.edu.
For more information, please contact:
T 800.227.8977, ext. 37814
F 650.723.7543
thestanfordfund@stanford.edu
thestanfordfund.stanford.edu
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