The Caltech Fund
The Difference You Make
Caltech Fund, Caltech's Highest Priorities, and Unrestricted Support for Caltech
Caltech Fund donors support the Institute's core
activity—bringing and keeping talented students and faculty together and
supporting them in their teaching, learning, and research. The global pandemic highlighted the
importance of flexible gifts that can be applied to unforeseen challenges or unanticipated
opportunities. Donors who choose these
designations allow Caltech's leaders to direct their gifts where they can have
the most impact on students and faculty and their mission "to expand
human knowledge and benefit society through research integrated with
education."
Caltech Parents Fund
Families
provide support directly to their Caltech students in so many ways, making
their attendance and success at the Institute possible. We are extraordinarily grateful that Caltech
families also come together to support the entire student community by
strengthening Caltech with their gifts through the Caltech Parents Fund. When parents of
current students give, their gifts help to ensure that their children can study
with the best students and faculty and have
outstanding opportunities to learn, explore, and discover;
parents whose children have graduated often continue their support in gratitude
for their students' experiences and to make those same opportunities available
to others.
Graduate Fellowship Fund
Graduate fellowships allow students to concentrate on their coursework and research with professors at the
top of their fields rather than on pursuing unrelated employment to finance
their educations. When you give through the Caltech Fund's Graduate Fellowship
Fund, you empower grad students to explore,
challenge, and discover without interruption or distraction as they
advance science and technology.
Donors through the Caltech Fund's Undergraduate Scholarship Fund support more than 50% of undergraduates who rely on financial aid to attend Caltech. You enable these students to take full advantage of the Caltech experience, in and out of the classroom, and you enrich our community by making their participation in it possible.