Officials with the Kansas State University Foundation say donations totaled more than $226.4 million this past year.

The total doesn’t quite match last year’s record total of $235 million in private gifts, but does highlight how strong giving continues to be to the foundation. The value of the university’s long-term investment pool reached $952.3 million as of June 30, the end of the fiscal 2023 calendar. The Foundation says its investment performance has consistently outperformed peer institutions, ranking No. 7 among the nation’s university and college endowments in 2022.

One of the key highlights from the past year saw the university securing $75 million to compete for matching funds from the state of Kansas for K-State’s Ag Innovation Initiative, with the state awarding $25 million in February.

The Foundation started construction on a third office building on Kimball Ave this year, slated for completion next July. A full county-by-county breakdown of giving is listed below.

 

Other key achievements for the 2023 fiscal year included:

  • Donors established 152 new scholarships to address student need.
  • A $3 million gift helped Cats’ Cupboard build a new food pantry facility.
  • A total of $47.9 million was raised for scholarships and student success overall.
  • Donors gave a record-breaking 11 gifts of $5 million or more, as well as 36 gifts of $1 million or more.
  • The largest-ever outright corporate gift to Kansas State University was secured at $10 million from General Atomics for the Salina campus.
  • The fourth named deanship at Kansas State University, the Eldon Gideon Dean of the College of Agriculture, was established through a $5 million endowed gift.
    County Number of donors Contributions
    Allen 66 $16,120.66
    Anderson 50 $14,740.75
    Atchison 114 $107,446.75
    Barber 49 $23,628.00
    Barton 252 $8,458,859.84
    Bourbon 39 $13,006.69
    Brown 135 $306,023.30
    Butler 439 $1,283,355.00
    Chase 46 $12,771.00
    Chautauqua 11 $950.00
    Cherokee 27 $4,892.00
    Cheyenne 24 $9,952.00
    Clark 29 $246,374.00
    Clay 162 $94,679.10
    Cloud 122 $198,688.00
    Coffey 90 $92,030.91
    Comanche 10 $21,350.00
    Cowley 146 $80,604.00
    Crawford 94 $99,846.41
    Decatur 48 $49,884.80
    Dickinson 318 $196,456.56
    Doniphan 75 $135,744.00
    Douglas 505 $1,312,869.75
    Edwards 31 $55,711.00
    Elk 16 $4,412.00
    Ellis 211 $249,902.75
    Ellsworth 64 $75,046.00
    Finney 248 $572,467.06
    Ford 191 $362,349.00
    Franklin 175 $424,052.00
    Geary 261 $539,772.38
    Gove 29 $189,003.86
    Graham 16 $15,698.00
    Grant 42 $8,775.41
    Gray 60 $154,366.00
    Greeley 13 $18,314.36
    Greenwood 47 $17,819.00
    Hamilton 9 $9,090.00
    Harper 37 $8,935.00
    Harvey 249 $328,353.30
    Haskell 45 $108,325.51
    Hodgeman 19 $6,475.00
    Jackson 131 $1,058,662.55
    Jefferson 138 $90,723.30
    Jewell 43 $41,638.88
    Johnson 5251 $17,776,171.37
    Kansas 4 $430.00
    Kearny 25 $39,597.00
    Kingman 73 $70,377.51
    Kiowa 19 $9,186.00
    Labette 42 $22,215.00
    Lane 27 $20,865.00
    Leavenworth 356 $179,106.39
    Lincoln 35 $15,288.55
    Linn 33 $17,147.00
    Logan 33 $90,684.00
    Lyon 175 $581,193.72
    Marion 101 $48,425.00
    Marshall 169 $586,728.51
    McPherson 311 $666,797.65
    Meade 36 $9,820.00
    Miami 227 $1,323,240.90
    Mitchell 134 $494,668.00
    Montgomery 96 $34,524.00
    Morris 126 $345,988.85
    Morton 8 $795.00
    Nemaha 185 $669,129.50
    Neosho 86 $85,569.00
    Ness 40 $343,758.00
    Norton 37 $16,768.00
    Osage 157 $217,272.00
    Osborne 51 $42,756.00
    Ottawa 91 $148,422.45
    Pawnee 63 $130,753.00
    Phillips 70 $761,293.00
    Pottawatomie 816 $905,589.02
    Pratt 123 $494,408.05
    Rawlins 29 $7,697.50
    Reno 434 $486,723.27
    Republic 120 $195,271.64
    Rice 85 $51,517.58
    Riley 4114 $52,975,729.20
    Rooks 44 $20,809.73
    Rush 31 $14,263.00
    Russell 73 $182,135.00
    Saline 737 $2,687,993.97
    Scott 82 $1,314,785.57
    Sedgwick 2669 $6,136,406.96
    Seward 39 $60,007.88
    Shawnee 1545 $14,235,488.20
    Sheridan 25 $22,025.00
    Sherman 39 $38,745.00
    Smith 46 $35,526.50
    Stafford 39 $9,639.00
    Stanton 16 $3,373.00
    Stevens 25 $2,865.47
    Sumner 135 $90,397.50
    Thomas 89 $174,190.00
    Trego 25 $26,575.50
    Wabaunsee 164 $98,377.30
    Wallace 21 $13,607.00
    Washington 176 $515,724.34
    Wichita 22 $6,910.00
    Wilson 36 $20,321.25
    Woodson 20 $5,017.00
    Wyandotte 328 $452,058.71
    Totals 25134 $123,153,315.42