Growing Endowment
As state funding continues to decline or remain flat, the Missouri Western State University Foundation endowment becomes increasingly important in ensuring that the University can continue to provide a high quality, affordable education for all. Endowment funds help provide co-curricular programming, enhance research opportunities, promote educational innovation and enhance academic support. Enhanced endowment ensures permanent resources for these needs.
Endowment funds are the foundation that will generate sustaining support for the next 100 years and beyond.
Gifts to Missouri Western’s endowment funds provide much needed perpetual income for scholarships, university faculty and staff positions, facility improvements, general operations, specific programming and more.
It is imperative that we grow the endowment to produce permanent resources for operations, scholarships and innovative programs.
Ongoing University Support
Undesignated funds help Missouri Western to support our mission and provide students an educational experience of the highest quality. Annual, undesignated gifts provide funds to many of the programs and priorities on campus that do not receive regular designated support, such as classroom equipment and experience-enriching programs around campus.
*MWSU Foundation Endowment Policy
Disbursements from the endowed fund will be made annually in accordance with the Foundation’s policies governing the management and administration of endowed funds. Current policies limit distribution to a percentage of the fund’s balance (sum of the endowed principal, accumulated interest, and dividend earnings and realized/unrealized capital gains/losses). The Foundation assesses an administrative fee on a percentage of the fund’s balance. These distributions are based on the stated percentages applied to the average balance in the account at the close of the past five calendar years.
Upon the realization of an estate gift, the Foundation shall assess a percentage of the value of the estate gift received. The Board of Directors reviews these policies annually and will adjust these percentages and/or other practices and policies as is deemed prudent due to economic and other environmental factors.