The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Endowments
An endowment gift connects you to Texas Athletics by creating meaningful, sustained support across our programs. Endowments generate critical resources that support student-athlete scholarships, program success, and competitive excellence. Most importantly, gifts to endowments provide perpetual opportunities for future generations of Longhorns.
Please watch the video below from the 2026 Defining Tomorrow Endowment Brunch to hear Coach Sarkisian and Texas student-athletes discuss the lasting impact of endowments:
While academic scholarships are vital to the education of Texas student-athletes, it is just one component of their full development as competitors and scholars. Some other areas that endowments can impact are academic support, sports medicine, athletic performance, performance nutrition, travel, and equipment.
2024-25 Endowment Report
How Does an Endowment Work?
With the financial expertise of the University of Texas behind us, we invest your gift. The principal remains untouched. Each year, we use the distribution – like dividends on a mutual fund account – to support student-athletes. Investment returns above the distribution rate help value of the endowment increase over time.
Endowment Return Math
A gift of $350,000 gift yielding a distribution rate of 4.75% would total $16,625 in projected funds each year.
Types of Endowments
| ENDOWMENT TYPE | IMPACT |
| Scholarship Endowments | Scholarship endowments fund academic support including room, board and tuition. |
| Program Endowments | A program endowment supports a specific sport or a student-athlete service area, enabling Texas Athletics to create future sustainability within sport operations. |
| Head Coach Endowments | Head coach endowments supply Texas Athletics with a perpetual source of income that helps to provide the resources needed to attract and retain the nation’s top student-athletes, coaches and staff. |
| Excellence Funds | An excellence fund is a pool of endowed funds, consisting of financial gifts each less than $25,000. |
| Group Endowments | A group endowment is established by a donor that wishes to encourage other Texas Athletics supporters to contribute to their particular endowment’s corpus, in turn generating greater annual distributions that fund the student-athlete experience. |