Endowment Support

Why Endowments Matter:

Endowments provide donors with opportunities to create living legacies. When you create an endowment, you touch the lives of future generations. When fully funded, your gift is invested and produces annual income to support the endowment’s purpose for years to come. As endowment funds grow over time, they can help even more students or provide larger annual awards.

While cash gifts for current use are vitally important, endowments are the foundation of all great universities. They provide steady support in perpetuity. Funds invested in Texas Wesleyan’s permanent endowment fund enable us to plan for the future with greater predictability than otherwise possible.

Engage. Inspire. Invest. seeks to strengthen the University’s permanent endowment by raising additional funds through newly established endowments including scholarships and fellowships for students, faculty development and research, academic departments, centers, programs and campus facilities.

Donors can establish a fund either with a direct contribution during their lifetime or through a legacy gift, or both. The first step in establishing an endowment is to determine areas of interest and need, such as assisting students with financial aid, support faculty, research or program initiatives.

Endowment Options:

Faculty Endowments encourage and enhance leadership, scholarly efforts and research:

• Distinguished Chair                          $2,500,000 Minimum
• Chair                                                 $1,000,000 Minimum
• Professorship                                    $500,000 Minimum
• Fellowship                                         $250,000 Minimum

Lectureship and Program Endowments support specific and general programs in colleges, units and departments:

• Lectureship                                       $250,000 Minimum
• Program                                            $250,000 Minimum

Endowed Scholarships are awarded to deserving students based on University standards and criteria set forth by the donor:

• Presidential Endowed Scholarship    $250,000 Minimum
• Trustee Endowed Scholarship           $100,000 Minimum
• Dean’s Endowed Scholarship            $50,000 Minimum
• University Endowed Scholarship       $25,000 Minimum

How Endowments Work:

Once an area of interest is selected, an endowment agreement is created and agreed upon by the donor and University. The funds are invested in the University’s permanent endowment fund, which is overseen by the University Board of Trustees. To learn more about establishing an endowed fund, contact a representative in the Office of University Advancement – office_of_advancement@txwes.edu or 817-531-4411.