Foundation Relations

Westmont College is honored to partner with a number of foundations across the country whose interests parallel Westmont’s mission. This common bond forms a driving force that propels many of the college’s academic programs and scholarships, research initiatives, equipment purchases, and buildings in which our students, faculty and their activities thrive and flourish. We are deeply grateful to each of our foundation partners in this work.

In our 2003-2004 fiscal year, foundations contributed $3.7 million, or 40 percent of all gifts to Westmont. Without significant support of foundations, such as these during the past 66 years, Westmont would not be the place it is today. Can you imagine a Westmont campus without Kerwood Hall, the Carroll Observatory, the Whittier Science Building, the Keck Physics and Engineering Lab, Murchison Gymnasium, or James Stamps Computer Lab? All of these facilities were made possible by generous gifts from foundations.

Thousands of Westmont graduates contribute to their communities and professions today in part because of the support of foundations who provided them scholarships or loans. Funding from foundations has also made possible everything from the purchase of spectrometers to bringing prominent guest lecturers, such as James Cahill and Madeleine L’Engle, to campus. In short, the generous support of foundations helps us to promote academic and research initiatives, to expand our horizons, and to dream new dreams.

We celebrate long-standing associations, value renewed relationships and welcome future partnerships with foundations who want to come alongside Westmont College to enable it to continue to excel as one of the premier liberal arts colleges in the nation.

We invite foundation representatives to come see our campus and learn more about how we can help each other to pursue our missions. If you would like to arrange for a campus tour, please contact Lori Call, Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations, at 805.565.6851, or calllori@westmont.edu.

Recent Foundation Grants

The Fletcher Jones Foundation Grants $1.5M for Endowed Chair in the Social Sciences

Current Opportunities for Foundation Partnerships

  • Track/Soccer Field
  • Institute for the Liberal Arts
  • Science Equipment
  • Student Scholarships
  • Faculty Chair Endowments
  • Research Projects

To learn more about these opportunities, please contact Lori Call, Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations, at 805.565.6851, via e-mail calllori@westmont.edu.