UC's endowment is a source of ongoing support that creates opportunities for students, enhances UC's ability to attract talent, and shapes the future by facilitating innovative research. UC's first endowment was established shortly after the university was founded in 1819, and its subsequent 2,600 endowment funds continue to provide ongoing and vital support to UC's mission.
You can learn more about recent and long-term performance in the FY23 Investment Overview portion of the UC Foundation’s FY23 Annual Report.
The UC Investment Office manages the university's approximately $1.8B of endowment assets in a diversified portfolio — including traditional long-only equity and fixed income funds, private equity funds, diversified strategies, real estate funds, and separately managed accounts — with the goal of balancing support across current and future generations of scholars and researchers.
Practically speaking, this means UC — with oversight from a qualified and highly-skilled Investment Committee — seeks to provide substantial and self-sustaining funding to each endowment's target area while maintaining principal value so our endowments can continue to provide the same support for many decades into the future. That's the transformative power of permanent capital.
Impact Driven
Endowments have special power to magnify philanthropic gifts — with patience and steady stewardship, an endowment will provide more support and have a larger impact than a gift that is used immediately.
The Henry and Anna B. Krucker Memorial Scholarship Fund was set up in 1984 by Elsie and Rose Krucker to honor their parents with the generous gift of $1.6M.
The Krucker Fund’s mission is to provide “worthy and needy” students with scholarships to the UC College of Medicine and it has been a runaway success. In its first 34 years, the Krucker Fund provided more than $5.4M in scholarships and its asset base more than doubled from $1.6M to more than $3.4M — protecting its ability to provide scholarships for the foreseeable future.
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The Cuppoletti & Malinowska Gen-1 Endowment Fund is just 1 of the 2,600 endowment funds that you can support on UC Day of Giving. Gifts to this fund provide support for a student(s) in the Gen-1 IMPACT House. Support may include but is not limited to the following, cost of graduate school applications, costs of giving a research poster or paper, assisting a student(s) accepting an unpaid internship, cost of travel to interviews for graduate school, study abroad funding, and/or other expenses related to academic enrichment.
