The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
2014–2025
The Keough gifts: On 1 October 2014 the university announced the first new college or school it had founded in nearly a century — the Donald R. Keough School of Global Affairs — made possible, with the construction of Jenkins Hall to house it, by gifts totaling 50 million dollars from Donald and Marilyn Keough. The university's wording is a total across gifts, and it is printed as such. Keough, the former president of Coca-Cola, and his wife stand among the university's most generous benefactors across a longer record; the school opened in August 2017.
The Fath gift: In November 2021 Harry Fath, a Cincinnati alumnus of 1963, and his wife Linda committed 50 million dollars exclusively to undergraduate financial aid — the largest gift of its kind, for student aid, in the university's history, on the university's announcement. Nearly seventy percent of Notre Dame's students receive some financial aid; the gift endows that support rather than a building.
The Rooney gift: In October 2025, in the same fortnight as the Walsh announcement, the university announced a gift of 55 million dollars from Francis and Kathleen Rooney to endow the Rooney Democracy Institute — established in 2008 as the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, and converted by the gift from a center into an endowed institute.
The Flaherty package: On 30 November 2017 the university announced 50 million dollars in combined support for itself and its founding religious community, the Congregation of Holy Cross — a package whose parts must be kept separate to be accurate. Mary and Jay Flaherty made a 20 million dollar gift toward the reconstruction of Corby Hall, the congregation's residence on campus, to which the university added 10 million of its own; the Flahertys made a further 5 million dollar gift to the Congregation for its aging religious; and the university itself committed 15 million dollars to the Congregation. The Flahertys' own giving inside the package is 25 million dollars, and it is that figure, labeled, that stands in the table.
Sources:
- University of Notre Dame news releases (1 October 2014; 30 November 2017) — the Keough gifts totaling 50 million dollars, and the Flaherty–university–Congregation package in its parts.
- Inside Higher Ed (17 November 2021; 9 October 2025) — the Fath commitment of 50 million dollars for financial aid, and the Rooney gift of 55 million dollars.