Gifts to the school's endowment can be designated to support faculty salaries, professional development programs for teachers, the general scholarship fund, or a named endowed scholarship fund that will continue to support students indefinitely.

An endowed scholarship for a Visitation student (or students) can be established in the name of the donor or in memory/honor of a student, alumna, or faculty member. In agreement with the school, the donor can establish criteria for the award of the scholarship, for example, that it should go to a minority student, a member of a large Catholic family, or a student from a particular elementary school.

The amount of the gift required to establish an endowed scholarship rises as tuition increases. For the 2019-2020 academic year, tuition is $31,200 and the following levels for endowed scholarships are now:

Full Tuition Scholarship - $700,000
Half Tuition Scholarship - $350,000
One-Fourth Tuition Scholarship - $175,000

With Visitation’s Partners program, you can directly support a bright young woman throughout her journey at Visitation. You get to know her through updates – stories about her favorite classes, what sports she is playing or the role she nabbed in the play, as well as awards and accolades she garners along the way. You will learn her hopes and dreams, knowing you are helping her achieve them with your gift of a Visitation education.

A Partner pledges a minimum of $10,000 annually for each of the student’s four years. All gifts are
tax deductible. A Partner can be an individual, a family, a group of friends or classmates, a corporation, a foundation, or a business. We firmly believe cost should not prevent deserving young women from receiving an exceptional education at Visitation.

Students in the Partners program are promising applicants or current students who need financial aid to attend Visitation and pledge to maintain their grades.

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Since our founding in 1799, Visitation families, alumnae, and friends have given back to leave our school stronger than before. Each gifted their minds and spirits, ideas, and resources to improve upon the school they inherited.

Every Visitation student, past and present, has benefited enormously from their vision, leadership, and investment. 

There’s no more meaningful or lasting way to pass on the gift of a Visitation education and strengthen the school that has embraced us all than to make a legacy gift. 

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In accordance with our master landscape plan, new plantings are being added to the campus when old specimens need to be replaced. This allows us to offer Memorial Trees.

Memorial Trees can be given in memory of an alumna, family member, teacher, or friend. Trees are also given to honor a living member of the Visitation community. Each tree is identified with a handsome, engraved bronze plaque. A donation of $4,000 is requested to cover the cost of the tree, the planting and maintenance, and the plaque. For assistance, please contact the Advancement Office at 202.787.5676.