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2025 Campaign Impact Report

Let's Go Beyond

Alumni and friends continue to cultivate Lehigh’s future makers and the unparalleled opportunities for discovery that begin on South Mountain. The 2025 fiscal year (July 1, 2024–June 30, 2025) was the second best in the university’s history for fundraising. This report captures all that happened across the institution through your support for the Lehigh Strategy and GO Beyond: The Campaign for Future Makers. Your impact can be seen across areas such as:

  • Annual Giving
  • Athletics
  • Planned Giving
  • Alumni Engagement
  • Corporate and Foundation Relations
  • Colleges
  • Community

Header photo by Keith Isaacs 

Go Beyond the Campaign for Future Makers

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Momentum

In our 2024–25 academic year, “momentum” was a word often heard on campus and in alumni circles. As a community, Lehigh experienced significant progress, made possible in many ways by your involvement and investment in our vision.
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Joseph Helble

Lehigh experienced significant progress, made possible by your involvement and investment in our vision. Thank you for believing in all that we are doing to drive change and make a difference.

Joseph J. Helble ’82, President of Lehigh University

Go Beyond: By The Numbers

Campaign as of June 30, 2025

Data Columns Section

$1.006B

toward $1.25 billion

63,364

donors

53%

of alumni (47,433) engaged

2nd

best fundraising year in the university’s history

Progress

Your involvement and investment have made so much possible. We still have more to do as we position Lehigh as a place where future makers create real, measurable, and lasting differences in our community and meaningful change in the world.
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Carol Packard

Our success this year and our momentum for all that lies ahead is because of you –
your love of, belief in, and support for this amazing place.

Carol Packard, Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations

Impact

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Gifts for Clayton University Center at Packer Hall, the centerpiece of the Asa Packer Campus, came from many alumni that supported specific spaces, including the Gary Pan ’86, his son Garrett ’16 and Pan family; the Class of 1975 in honor of their 50th Reunion; and more than 75 individuals, families, and corporations.

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43 students benefit from the full-tuition scholarship and financial support for experiential learning programs. The program received significant support for both scholarships and the impact fund. 31 Soaring Together events over the year engaged 1,624 alumnae.

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Nearly 16,000 individuals registered for at least one of the 355 events on campus, across the U.S., around the world, and virtually. Targeted events engaged young alumni, members of professional alliances, and affinity groups. Traditions like Rally and Rivalry drew many alumni as well as opportunities to learn, volunteer, and support career-ready students.

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In This Image: Annual Giving totaled $19,942,800 and launched new initiatives including Giving Tuesday, the Lehigh Promise, and caused-based giving.

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In This Image: Athletics Annual Fund raised $4,227,900 from 5,258 donors and welcomed new leadership and earned several team championships.

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In This Image: Planned Giving saw Michael J. Caruso ’67, the chair of the Tower Society since 2010, end his tenure and hand the reins to Kevin L. Clayton ’84 P’13. During his tenure as chair, Caruso helped add $329 million to the principal of the endowment.

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