The Advent Fund
The fund that sustains Advent, year after year
Tuition doesn't cover the full cost of an Advent education, and it isn't designed to. The Advent Fund makes up the difference, not as a bonus on top of tuition, but as a core part of how Advent operates.
The Advent Fund is built into Advent's operating budget every year. The school plans around it, which is why steady, dependable support matters as much as the total raised. This flexibility allows Advent to respond when significant needs arise beyond the annual budget.
Every gift to the Advent Fund goes to work right away, supporting the school within the same fiscal year it's given. A strong, steady Advent Fund is what allows the school to operate confidently today and to keep building the Advent that students will inherit tomorrow.
Contact Jeff Goff, Director of Development, to discuss the impact, timing, or allocation of your family’s gift.
What is The Advent Fund?
The Advent Fund is the School’s most important fundraising priority. The philanthropy provided through annual giving dollars provides essential support to Advent’s operating budget. It directly underwrites the people and programs that make the Advent learning and teaching experience a reality.
The Advent Fund is a collective gift from the extended community to fill an intentional gap per student in the annual operating budget. Dollars donated to the Advent Fund are immediately put to work to fortify our students’ educational, physical, emotional, and social needs and to provide expanded opportunities that enhance our academic programs and enrichment activities.
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Your gift to the Advent Fund shows faith in Advent's leadership and is an investment in the school's future. Each gift, no matter the size, helps us reach our 100% participation goal from families, faculty, and staff.
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All students, faculty, and staff benefit from the Advent Fund, which offsets operating budget expenses and offers Advent leadership the flexibility to respond quickly to operational needs as they arise. In 2025–26, examples include financial aid, support for Farm School and New York City trips, salary increases for faculty, and facility upgrades.
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Parents (former and current), alumni, trustees, grandparents, staff, and other members of our community show their commitment to the school by supporting the Advent Fund.
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Every gift to the Advent Fund matters, at every level — what matters most is making a gift that is meaningful to your family. We're grateful for gifts of any size, and we hope families will consider making Advent one of their top philanthropic priorities.
Catalysts: $25,000+
Architects: $10,000–$24,999
Explorers: $2,500–$9,999
Friends of Advent: $1–$2,499
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You may, but remember that Advent relies on unrestricted gifts so that we can direct it to wherever the need is greatest that year, including operational needs we couldn't have anticipated at the start of the year.
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Not quite — though they both support the school. The Fall Benefit is a celebration for our community, with proceeds from tickets and the auction going directly to Advent. The Advent Fund is separate: it's our year-round campaign that provides critical operating support for the current school year. We hope you'll consider supporting both.
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Advent's fiscal year runs from July 1 to June 30, and gifts are applied to the budget in the school year they are received. Although gifts can be made at any time, contributing to the Advent Fund early in the fiscal year allows the school to have access to funds as they are needed.
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Gifts can be made by credit card, check, wire transfer, stock, mutual fund transfer, or donor-advised funds. Visit our Ways to Give page for full details. Gifts to the Advent Fund are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law (Tax ID: 04-2304521).
