Gifts to the Buck/Cardinal Club directly impact the student-athlete experience with critical resources including scholarships, sports performance, sports medicine, team travel, and academic advising.
You can also direct your gift to a Sport Improvement Fund, which is an annual, expendable fund for each of the 36 varsity sport programs, and impact that program by helping offset costs towards the team’s operating budget.
Buck/Cardinal Club and Sport Improvement Fund donors help provide a world-class education and a championship-caliber athletics experience for all student-athletes.
Thank you to the 4,685 donor households who made a gift to the Buck/Cardinal Club or a Sport Improvement Fund in fiscal year 2022, which accounted for $9.90M. You helped our student-athletes achieve the following accomplishments:
3 national championships, extending the streak of winning at least one NCAA team championship for the 46th consecutive year
16 conference championships
10 individual national champions
116 All-Americans
96% graduation success rate
Our History
In 1934, the "Tiny Buck of the Month Club" was formed to raise funds from Stanford alumni and friends to pay the tuition costs for “capable, worthy, and needy student-athletes.” As the Club's name implied, membership dues were one dollar per month. The word "tiny" was added to emphasize the modest amount and to honor head football coach, Claude "Tiny" Thornhill. The Club later shortened its name to the "Stanford Buck Club" and revised its initial membership dues requirement to gifts of any size. With the advent of Title IX, the Cardinal Club was formed in 1977-78 to raise scholarship funds for women. Under the guidance of the Stanford Buck and Cardinal Clubs’ leadership, a merged Buck/Cardinal Club was formed in 1987 to raise funds for both men's and women's athletic scholarships.
Our Mission
The Buck/Cardinal Club provides scholarship and program support to all varsity sports programs at Leland Stanford Junior University. Program support includes, but is not limited to, providing funds for summer school tuition, recruiting, travel, housing, and training table meals, or other such support as determined by the Athletic Director.
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