Pitt Day of Giving raises nearly $900,000 more than last year

This year’s Pitt Day of Giving had almost the same number of donors as last year, but raised nearly $900,000 more.

The 11,423 donors — Pitt alumni, faculty, staff, students, parents and friends — contributed more than $3.26 million during the ninth Pitt Day of Giving. Donations came from Pennsylvania and all 49 other states — with New York, New Jersey, Virginia and Maryland rounding out the top five.

Last year, a record-setting 11,473 donors from all 50 U.S. states as well as 25 countries and five continents gave more than $2.4 million.

Several challenges throughout the day brought extra funds to different schools and organizations.

The chancellor’s senior staff kicked in $5,000 after more than 2,380 faculty and staff donated. The final total was 2,496.

Fifteen schools and colleges will split $100,000 after increasing the number of donors to each. The largest increase was to Pitt Law, which was up 73% from last year — from 131 donors to 227.

An all-day competition for the highest number of donors to each Pitt place, experience and more was won by Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, which had donations from 469 people.

Find all the challenge winners on the Pitt Day of Giving website.