University of Michigan raises over $4B in largest

ANN ARBOR, MI — The University of Michigan has raised over $4 billion as part of its largest fundraising campaign ever.

Over 230,000 donors have donated $4.02 billion to the university’s Look to Michigan fundraising campaign, UM spokesperson Kay Jarvis said on Sept. 4. The school has reached 57% of its larger $7 billion goal, Jarvis said.

The university publicly launched Look to Michigan, originally known as Vision 2034, in October 2024 as a donation plan to support its three UM campuses, Michigan athletics, its Michigan Medicine academic medical center and more.

With a larger $7 billion goal, university officials described the multi-year-long campaign as, “the largest effort in its history and the largest known campaign goal of any public university,” according to an Aug. 25 Universi