CASE Insights on Voluntary Support of Education, 2024 Report covers trends in the economy and voluntary support, survey respondent results, advancement investment, emerging findings, and more. 

CASE Insights on Advancement Metrics that Matter (United States) in partnership with GiveCampus is the first survey in a new series that gathers insights on topical and timely issues from individuals working in advancement with the aim of supplementing data collected in our annual benchmarking surveys.

This research brief highlights key findings from data collected from the Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) survey for the 2020-21 fiscal year for U.S. higher education institutions. Full summary findings will be released in April 2022.

Based on responses to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey, CASE estimates that colleges and universities in the U.S. raised $49.50 billion during the 2020 academic fiscal year, a slight decline from the $49.60 billion raised the year before.

Based on responses to the annual Voluntary Support of Education survey, CASE estimates that colleges and universities in the U.S. raised $49.60 billion during the 2019 academic fiscal year, 6.1% more than in 2018 and the highest amount ever raised.

This research brief reports on philanthropic income to higher education as reported by CASE-member institutions in Australia and New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, the United States, and a cohort of European nations outside the United Kingdom.

Based on responses to the annual VSE survey, CASE estimates that colleges and universities in the U.S. raised $46.73 billion during the 2018 academic fiscal year, 7.2 percent more than in 2017 and the highest amount ever raised

Summary benchmarking reports are a comparison tool from CASE Insights with charts and tables of survey data comparing your institution against peers. 

The benchmarking tools in the data portal will allow you to measure success and progress through the results of surveys on fundraising and alumni engagement.

CASE publishes research findings based on the results of the Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey and offers access to the survey data through its AMAtlas Data Miner resource.