All but one of the private nonprofit institutions and two of the public institutions that raised the most in private donations for the 2016 fiscal year were doctoral universities with the highest research activity, as classified by the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. (If multiple campuses were considered together, that classification is for the main campus.) The universities that did the best at raising private donations were generally ones that already had very large endowments.
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Public institutions
| 1. | U. of California at San Francisco | $595,940,070 |
| 2. | U. of Washington, multiple campuses | $541,444,150 |
| 3. | U. of California at Los Angeles | $498,800,296 |
| 4. | U. of Michigan, multiple campuses | $433,775,518 |
| 5. | Ohio State U., multiple campuses | $386,111,783 |
| 6. | Indiana U., multiple campuses | $360,935,740 |
| 7. | U. of California at Berkeley | $348,865,132 |
| 8. | U. of Texas at Austin | $345,991,576 |
| 9. | U. of Minnesota, multiple campuses | $345,640,311 |
| 10. | U. of Oklahoma at Norman | $322,435,573 |
| 11. | U. of Wisconsin at Madison | $318,828,052 |
| 12. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | $308,694,373 |
| 13. | U. of Colorado, multiple campuses | $281,481,973 |
| 14. | Texas A&M U. at College Station | $276,474,802 |
| 15. | U. of Virginia | $245,391,966 |
| 16. | U. of Florida | $243,666,490 |
| 17. | U. of Nebraska, multiple campuses | $214,458,958 |
| 18. | U. of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center | $208,481,621 |
| 19. | U. of California at San Diego | $206,872,666 |
| 20. | U. of Utah | $201,854,380 |
Private nonprofit institutions
| 1. | Harvard U. | $1,187,530,292 |
| 2. | Stanford U. | $951,149,098 |
| 3. | U. of Southern California | $666,640,686 |
| 4. | Johns Hopkins U. | $657,292,634 |
| 5. | Cornell U. | $588,261,922 |
| 6. | Columbia U. | $584,808,916 |
| 7. | U. of Pennsylvania | $542,850,553 |
| 8. | Yale U. | $519,146,339 |
| 9. | Duke U. | $506,440,564 |
| 10. | New York U. | $461,149,577 |
| 11. | U. of Chicago | $443,304,691 |
| 12. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | $419,752,498 |
| 13. | Northwestern U. | $401,679,496 |
| 14. | U. of Notre Dame | $371,762,438 |
| 15. | Washington U. in St Louis | $269,876,662 |
| 16. | Princeton U. | $267,875,832 |
| 17. | U. of Miami | $236,333,647 |
| 18. | Dartmouth College | $227,037,580 |
| 19. | Brown U. | $207,725,021 |
| 20. | Emory U. | $192,699,880 |
Note: Data on private donations are based on survey responses from more than 950 institutions to the Council for Aid to Education’s Voluntary Support of Education survey. The survey tracked gifts that were received, not just promised, during the 2016 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, 2016, for most institutions. More data are at http://cae.org/vse-data-miner/vse-survey.
Sources: Council for Aid to Education