Launch of the Momentum Campaign Propels a Record-Breaking Fundraising Year

Adelphi raised $15 million in 2024-2025 from donors inspired by the public launch of the University's most ambitious fundraising campaign ever.

Donors from across the Adelphi community responded to the public announcement of the University's $100 million Momentum Campaign: Extraordinary Impact by making 2024-2025 the most successful fundraising year in the University's history.

Multiple gifts, totaling $15 million, propelled the campaign to $89 million raised to date. This robust giving over the past year reflects our donors' strong support for the University, its mission and its future.

Donations made this year supported all six of the Momentum Campaign funding priorities: scholarships, academic excellence, life-changing student experiences, our campus, our diverse community and the Adelphi Fund. In addition to numerous endowments for scholarship funds, there were donations supporting individual schools, colleges and departments; internships and career support; the Women's Leadership Conference; the new Manhattan Center; the Bridges to Adelphi program; athletics; and many other initiatives.

"It has been incredibly inspiring to see our community respond so strongly to the public launch of the Momentum Campaign," said Thomas Kline, EdD, vice president of University advancement and external relations. "This initiative has indeed had an extraordinary impact on Adelphi, touching nearly every corner of the campus. We look forward to continuing this progress into the final two years of the campaign!"

Matching Campaign Inspires Major and Planned Gifts

The Momentum Campaign Endowment Match Program has been an important strategy in cultivating major gifts to the endowment. Since its inception in 2022, the program has brought in $6.4 million in gifts and commitments, created 56 new endowment funds, and augmented 38 existing endowed funds.

Major and planned gifts played a significant role in reaching this year's total. There were 24 donations of more than $100,000, including the following notable commitments:

• $1 million from Philip Mark, MS '66, PhD '72, in support of the Department of Chemistry and the Adelphi Fund
• $700,000 from LeeAnn Black '83 and Jeffrey Black in support of the Women's Leadership Conference, scholarships and the Adelphi Fund
• $250,000 from Adelphi parents Gregory and Katy Carey in support of the Bridges to Adelphi program

Planned giving continues to be a source of great support from the Adelphi community. This year, Adelphi realized a $1.7 million gift from the estate of Lee Steinberg for the performing arts, while simultaneously growing the pipeline of anticipated planned gifts from $23 million to $40 million since 2021.

A Year of Records

It may not be surprising that the record year included unprecedented responses to annual crowdfunding events.

Giving Tuesday, held in December 2024, raised $205,000 from a record 383 donors. Adelphi's Giving Day, in April 2025, raised a record $886,000 from 1,879 donors. Easily surpassing the goal of half a million dollars, the total represented a 29 percent increase in dollars over the previous year and included 11 gifts of more than $25,000 and a record $334,000 given to support Adelphi student-athletes. The event also attracted 497 new donors, including 142 students.

Giving to the Adelphi Fund also skyrocketed, raising more than $971,000 and surpassing its goal of $750,000. A new endowment match helped secure larger gifts and multiyear commitments that will help provide sustained giving year after year. Giving to the Adelphi Fund has tripled since 2022.

"I am incredibly grateful for the support of the entire Adelphi community in helping us to not only surpass our fundraising goals, but also-and more importantly-to change the lives of students in very real ways," Dr. Kline said. "The name of the campaign is 'extraordinary impact'; as I reflect on these words, I am proud of the breadth and depth of impact which will be felt across campus both immediately and for generations to come."