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Ways to Give

Thank you for your interest in giving to Caltech. Scientific and technological innovation requires collaboration, and we are pleased to offer many ways for you to partner with us in fueling groundbreaking research and education that benefit science and society.

Make an Outright Gift

Explore the many ways you can make a donation that will directly benefit teaching, learning, and research at Caltech.

Support the Caltech Fund

Help current Techers. Your gift to the Caltech Fund has an immediate impact on undergraduate and graduate students by helping to provide the resources, opportunities, and extracurricular activities they need to flourish.

Give for Your Reunion

Honor the place that gave you your education by joining your classmates in giving a gift of any amount to the Caltech Fund. Your support makes a difference in the lives of the students who follow in your footsteps.

Make a Planned Gift

There are many ways you can establish a legacy with an investment in Caltech. Our gift planning experts can assist you in making gifts of stock, bonds, mutual funds, real estate, retirement plan assets, cash, or life insurance. You can also explore options such as charitable gift annuities, retained life estates, or charitable remainder unitrusts that maximize your tax benefits while empowering research, discovery, and education at Caltech.

Join the Caltech Associates

Be part of a close community of donors who network, travel, learn, and socialize together while providing discretionary funds that support Caltech faculty, students, and staff in their quest to create a better world.

Name an Endowment

Gifts that establish endowments offer reliable and ongoing support for the initiatives that are most important to you. From scholarships, fellowships, and professorships to cross-disciplinary research programs, Caltech endowments are managed to last, accelerating progress and fostering innovation for generation after generation.

Policies Governing Gifts

Gift-related policies ensure Caltech's ability to effectively receive and administer charitable gifts and uphold compliance with donor restrictions. All policies are subject to change at Caltech's discretion and may be amended from time to time.

Gift Policies (updated October 2024)

Gift Acceptance Policy
Gift Counting and Reporting Policy
Donor Agreement Policy
Naming Policy

Administration of Philanthropic Contributions, Endowed and Current-use Restricted (updated January 2023)

Summary of Policies for Endowed Funds (updated August 2017)