Endowment

Do you have a special interest in helping to ensure that the very best young artists from every corner of the world have the opportunity to attend Walnut Hill, regardless of their financial status?

Endowed scholarships serve as a permanent investment in our educational mission, helping to ensure that deserving students have the opportunity to attend Walnut Hill. Our dynamic learning community – whether in the dorms, the classroom or the studio – is fueled by our ability to attract bright, talented students from all backgrounds. These endowments help all students by filling our school with high caliber students.

A Named Endowed Scholarship is a wonderful way to honor a family member, a friend or someone special who has made a positive difference in your life. It also helps perpetuate the development of young artists, promotes the arts, and transforms lives. Making a gift to endowment is a way to ensure a permanent legacy to the arts.

Currently, the School provides $4.2M each year in financial aid. Our scholarship endowments contribute approximately $200,000 per year to that total. A larger endowment would allow us to increase both the breadth and depth of our financial aid. We have seen an increasing number of financial aid applicants over the past several years. Furthermore, Walnut Hill has identified the need to increase what our financial aid package covers for some students so that they may fully experience what it means to be a student here. For some, that may mean covering the cost of attending prom, receiving a yearbook, or tutoring.

If you are interested in making a gift to support the financial aid endowment, please contact us at giving@walnuthillarts.org.

Walnut Hill is highly unique among independent schools in that it employs both an academic and artistic faculty. While we are vigilant to remain as competitively priced as possible, we also must be able to attract and retain both academic and artistic teachers of the highest caliber. This becomes even more challenging given that we are located in an area where competition for such talented faculty is fierce.

Walnut Hill’s program offers students intense study into their art, a full range of academic offerings, and a resident life program that is highly individualized. The care and level of attention that is provided to our students is extraordinary, and requires significant investment in the people who make it happen.

Program endowments help to offset the expense of running this powerful program by generating funds for teaching salaries and professional development. A strong and growing endowment often separates the leading institutions for their ability to attract top faculty, provide on-going development, and create a culture of innovation.

Currently, our program endowments fund approximately $34,000 per year. This means that less than 1% of our salary costs are supported by our endowment. As we increase this endowment, we will doubly benefit Walnut Hill, as we will then be able to free other funds to invest in additional faculty or programs.

If you are interested in making a gift to support the program endowment, please contact us at giving@walnuthillarts.org.

Does art mean something special to you? Do you want to ensure that art continues to thrive beyond the current generation?

Walnut Hill is one of just a handful of places that offer an extraordinary opportunity for young students to receive their high school education alongside a deep focus into their art. While earning their high school diploma, these students are also committed to learning their art. Many of our students go on to conservatories or universities and then launch careers in the arts. This type of intense, focused education launches passionate artists into the world like few other places can do. Such a place and format is critical if we want to see the continuation of art in all forms for generations to come.

The General Endowment at Walnut Hill is the underlying current that supports all aspects of our operations, year in and year out. If you want to make a lasting contribution to ensure that Walnut Hill can continue to provide young artists a place to start and grow… then make a gift to the general endowment.