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 and Faculty Support

Your annual gift will help support our academic programs and the Madeleine Clark Wallace Library. Funding for new programs, research opportunities, and faculty development will help us retain and attract talented professors and ensure that students continue to receive a transformative liberal arts education.

Arts and Creative Expression

By supporting the arts, you’ll help fund artistic programs, creative spaces, and resources that allow students to explore and develop their talents. Your gift also enables us to bring professional artists to campus and create opportunities for theater, dance, and visual arts students to showcase their work.

Campus Preservation and Enhancements

Impact Funds can preserve our past and build for the future. Your gift will help restore our historic buildings, renovate residence halls, modernize classrooms, and create new state-of-the-art learning spaces. It will also help enhance our public spaces, from the tree-lined Dimple to the Wheaton Woods and Peacock Pond.

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 at Wheaton College. Designed to address unmet financial needs, this fund helps ensure that students can remain enrolled and complete their studies without interruption.

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging

Directing your gift toward DEIB efforts will help fund initiatives such as scholarships for underrepresented students, accessible living and learning spaces, and programs that promote a sense of belonging across campus. Your gift will help ensure everyone has equal access to resources and opportunities that foster academic and personal growth.

Experiential Learning and Internships

Help support our mission to provide a well-rounded liberal arts education with career-focused learning beyond the classroom. Your gift can provide access to research opportunities, fully funded internships, and hands-on experiences that prepare students for success in their chosen careers. Your gift will empower students to graduate with a competitive edge in the workforce.

Lyons Athletics Club

Choose your impact. Support the team of your choice to help provide new uniforms and specialized equipment or help pay for team travel expenses. You might also consider a gift to the Lyons Athletics Club or the General Athletics Fund to aid with student-athlete recruitment and retention and athletic and recreational facility enhancements. You’ll directly impact the experience for our 26 men’s and women’s NCAA Division III and Intercollegiate athletic teams.

Public Health and Service

Your support ensures our future nurses and frontline healthcare workers have access to the resources, training, and clinical experience for their area of specialty. Your gift to this fund will directly impact students in our Nursing, Public Health, Pre-Health tracks, or service-related fields to empower them with the knowledge, skills, and insight needed to address local and global inequities in our healthcare system.

Scholarship and Financial Aid

Giving to our Scholarship and Financial Aid Impact Fund has a profound impact on both students and the college as a whole. Your contribution helps alleviate the financial burden on students, enabling them to focus on their academic and personal growth. It also enriches our campus community by making a transformative Wheaton education accessible to students of all diverse backgrounds.

Science, Technology and Innovation

Your gift can help prepare our students for successful careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines. Funding provides state-of-the-art technology in our 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.

Student Support and Success

Join us in creating an environment where every student can discover, belong and thrive. Your support strengthens resources like Academic Advising, the Life and Career Design Institute, and wellness programs, helping students excel academically and personally. Your generosity fosters growth, community engagement, and professional development, empowering students to reach their full potential.

The College’s Greatest Needs

Giving to this Impact Fund provides the flexibility to address immediate and evolving needs across campus. Your donation can support everything from enhancing student programs and improving campus facilities to funding emergency resources for students in need. These unrestricted gifts allow us to quickly respond to opportunities and challenges, ensuring that the most pressing needs are met as they arise. Your gift will have an immediate impact on our campus community.