Whether you have an affinity for academics, scholarships, athletics, student life, or campus improvements, you can direct your annual Wheaton Fund gift to the areas that are important to you. Impact Funds immediately benefit current students and enhance their college experience. You’ll also help ensure that Wheaton continues to foster academic and personal growth for generations to come. Where will you make your impact?

Make Your Gift

Academic & Faculty Support

Your annual gift helps maintain the academic excellence and high standards that continue to be the cornerstone of a Wheaton education. Your contribution supports academic departments, the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library, faculty development, and students’ journey while they chart their way through Wheaton’s Compass Curriculum.

Arts & Creative Expression

Wheaton’s campus is enriched by the Beard and Weill Galleries, Permanent Collection, and the Public Art at Wheaton and the Arts & Creative Expression fund supports artistic programs, creative spaces, and resources that allow students to explore and develop their talents. Your gift also enables Wheaton to bring professional artists to campus and create opportunities for theater, dance, and visual arts students to showcase their work.

Building Preservation & Campus Enhancements

Impact Funds will help the college maintain and breathe new life into our beloved campus. Your gift will help modernize classrooms to be equipped with cutting-edge technology, renovate residence halls that will echo with comfort and camaraderie, and rejuvenate public spaces that will inspire creativity and collaboration.

Critical Retention Fund

The Critical Retention Fund provides flexible scholarship support to current students in good academic standing who are facing financial challenges that may prevent them from continuing their education. Designed to address unmet financial needs, this fund helps ensure that students can remain enrolled and complete their studies without interruption.

Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement

The fund for Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement plays a pivotal role in fostering an inclusive and accessible campus environment. Gifts to this fund enable Wheaton to offer opportunities for collaboration and coordination in planning and delivering programs and services, as well as a more accessible framework for intercultural learning, social justice, spiritual development, and global citizenship.

Life & Career Design

Generosity through the fund for Life & Career Design supports Wheaton’s mission to provide a high-quality education with innovative design thinking to help students learn skills and build a mindset for success in college and throughout their life and career. Your support provides access to research opportunities, fully funded internships, and hands-on experiences that prepare students for success in their chosen careers.

Lyons Athletics Club

Choose your impact. Generosity through the Lyons Athletic Club (LAC) supports Wheaton’s Athletic Department, Wheaton’s 26 varsity sports teams, and the college’s on-campus recreation programs. When you give to the Lyons Athletic Club, you will enhance athletic and recreational facilities for all students, improve the student-athlete experience, aid Wheaton in recruiting and retaining student-athletes, supplement sports team and fitness center equipment needs, and cover team trips & travel opportunities.

Public Health & Service

Public health students at Wheaton learn how to save, extend and improve lives. The fund for Public Health & Service makes it possible for Wheaton to enhance offerings to students interested in public health and service-related fields. Your support ensures our future nurses and frontline healthcare workers have access to the resources, training, coursework and experiential learning opportunities they need to address local and global inequities in our healthcare system.

Scholarship & Financial Aid

Generosity through the fund for Scholarship & Financial Aid expands the amount of need-based aid and merit scholarship Wheaton can provide to its students. Each year, the demand for scholarship aid outpaces what Wheaton can provide to meet each student’s needs. Your contribution to scholarships helps remove financial barriers that may stand in the way of bright minds finding their place at Wheaton.

Science, Technology & Innovation

Your gift can help prepare students for successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Funding provides state-of-the-art technology in classrooms and Innovation Spaces and experiential learning opportunities. Your support fosters innovation, encourages hands-on learning, and helps to shape the next generation of leaders, researchers and innovators.

The College’s Greatest Needs

Giving to this Impact Fund provides the most far-reaching and flexible funding to meet emerging needs and opportunities across campus as they arise. More than ever, your gift fuels Wheaton’s mission and vision for educating students for purposeful, abundant lives and evolving careers.