Although the Ford Foundation complained that U.S. higher education was not getting enough contributions from private sources, the annual survey of donations to 50 major colleges and universities by the John Price Jones Co., Inc., a Manhattan fund-raising firm, indicated that individuals and corporations gave a record $211,213,000 in 1965-66. Total donations which also included bequests and foundation grants, were down slightly from the previous year, to $440,426,000.
The top twelve beneficiaries:
Harvard $44,464,000
M.I.T. 40,740,000
California 34,615,000
Yale 27,050,000
Chicago 26,412,000
N.Y.U. 25,043,000
Cornell 24,984,000
Pennsylvania 23,494,000
Stanford 21,217,000
Columbia 18,815,000
Johns Hopkins 12,578,000
Northwestern 11,748,000
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