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.
Types of Endowments
Scholarship Endowments
Scholarship endowments fund academic support including tuition, room, and board.
Program Endowments
A program endowment supports a specific sport, enabling UCLA athletics to create sustainability within sport operations. Your support for program endowment fuels ELITE student-athlete and coach experiences today while securing the future for generations to come.
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 for a specific sport. As these excellence funds grow, they create the margin of excellence required to fulfill our mission to develop champions through academic excellence, competitive greatness and social responsibility
Four Deep Scholarship Endowment and Program Endowment
Opportunities
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Student-athletes deserve a lot of credit. It takes exceptional discipline to balance daily practices, games away from home, keeping up studies, and graduating. I believe it's very important to help these young people, to steer them in the right direction.
— Bob Wilson
Endowment initiatives seek to build upon the strong foundation of perpetual resources provided by the original investors of the Four Deep Scholarship Endowment Campaign. Chaired by UCLA graduate Bob Wilson, the Four Deep initiative was created in 1988, and originally sought to endow four scholarships at each position for UCLA Football. Due to the success of the Four Deep initiative it was subsequently expanded to include all UCLA scholarship athletes. It is for this reason and the need to fully fund in true dollars all NCAA maximum allowable scholarships that additional participation is sought, thus providing an endowed, sustainable scholarship program.
By creating a Four Deep Scholarship Endowment or a Program Endowment you will forever link your name to a championship tradition, while making a direct impact on future generations of UCLA student-athletes. The foundation is strong. Ensure the future by becoming a part of the movement.
endowment growth last year through new contributions
UCLA: $3,015,412
rising annual scholarship cost for ucla student-athletes:
2003:
$5.7M
2007:
$8.2M
2011:
$10.5M
2015:
$12.4M
2021:
$17.5M
2025:
$20.7M
How Endowments Work
An endowed gift supplies the UCLA Department of Intercollegiate Athletics with a perpetual source of income that provides the resources needed to attract, develop, and retain the nation's most talented student-athletes and coaches. Endowments are long-term investment accounts that require a minimum balance. The principal is invested, and earned income is distributed in accordance with the guidelines agreed upon by the donor, the Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, and the UCLA Foundation.
$500,000
Endowment
Contribution
8% OR $40,000
Estimated Annual Investment Return
5% OR $25,000
Available Annually to Fulfill Donor Intent
3% OR $15,000
Retained Annually to Grow Fund Principal
STUDENT- ATHLETE SCHOLARSHIP SUPPORT
SPORT SPECIFIC PROGRAM SUPPORT
THE UCLA FOUNDATION ENDOWMENT POOL
The UCLA Foundation's spending policy governs the rate at which funds are released to fund holders for current spending. The Foundation's spending policy is based on a target rate set as a percentage of a rolling market value. The Board of Directors of The UCLA Foundation reviews and approves the rate annually. For more information visit www.uclafoundation.org/finances.aspx
Assets of The UCLA Foundation are managed by the UCLA Investment Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of The UCLA Foundation. For more information, please visit www.uclainvestmentcompany.org.
Program
Endowments
Coaches spend more time with UCLA student-athletes than any other member of the UCLA family, providing invaluable lessons in becoming champions in the classroom, in competition and in the community. Program endowments supplement sport specific budgets and provide well deserved, and much needed, support to the men and women leading our student-athletes.
Program endowments provide sport specific operational support at the discretion of the head coach, with Athletic Director oversight. All endowment gifts may be paid over a five-year period.
$1,000,000+
$500,000
$125,000
Example
Every program endowment contributor is an integral part of the team, and will receive several communications from coaches and athletic department staff throughout the year. Program endowment contributors will qualify for a variety of sport specific benefits and will have opportunities to attend social events with coaches on an annual basis. Additionally, each program endowment donor will have their name displayed on a plaque in the UCLA Athletics Hall of Fame.
$1,000,000
Endowment
Contribution
Creates the Joe and Josephine Bruin Head Women's Soccer Coaching Position
Generates $50,000 in annual support for Women's Soccer