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2022–2026
The gifts: The University of Saint Francis's documented major gifts are a study in planned giving. The largest is Larry Lee's 6,060,000 dollar planned gift of April 2026, told in the Lee entry above. Before it, the university's largest single scholarship donation was the 2.1 million dollar endowed scholarship gift from the estate of Mark M. Suedhoff, announced in October 2022 and funding scholarships from 2023. In September 2026 the university announced a further anonymous planned gift of 1.5 million dollars. The Chuck and Lisa Surack Endowed Scholarship also sits at Saint Francis; its amount is not published in the record reached, and it is named here without a figure. Three of the university's four largest documented gifts arrived by bequest or planned instrument — the pattern of a small Catholic university whose alumni give at death what they could not give in life, at sizes the annual fund never sees.
Sources:
- University of Saint Francis news releases (17 October 2022; 22 April 2026; September 2026) — the Suedhoff estate gift, the Lee planned gift, and the anonymous planned gift.