Auxiliary Organizations
Auxiliary organizations are entrepreneurial and service-oriented, providing a wide array of support services, programs and facilities that further the educational mission of the CSU. Approximately 90 self-supporting auxiliary organizations operate without State General Fund money and are organized on each campus as separate legal entities.
In 2017-18:
- Auxiliaries managed $4.8 billion, representing 24 percent of the CSU’s $19.5 billion combined total assets.
- Auxiliary revenues reached $2 billion, representing 17 percent of the $11.7 billion combined total revenues.
- Auxiliaries managed $586.2 million, representing 22 percent of the $2.7 billion combined total contracts and grants revenues.
For more information about CSU auxiliaries, visit
auxiliary.calstate.edu.
Philanthropic Support
This past year, donors continued to grow the lasting impact of philanthropic support to the university. Over $482 million in charitable gift commitments support systemwide and campus efforts committed to transforming lives through inclusion, education and opportunity.
In 2017-18:
- Gifts from individuals totaled $151 million from 261,874 individual donors.
- Alumni donors numbered 93,672. Gifts from alumni made up 41 percent of individual giving, with $62 million in contributions.
- Gifts from organizations totaled $158.2 million, including $63.5 million from foundations.
- $64.4 million from corporations, including 2,626 matching gifts, were received.
- Donors contributed more than $309 million in charitable gift receipts – cash, securities, in-kind contributions, irrevocable future commitments and private charitable grants.
- Total endowment market value reached $1.7 billion systemwide.