Beavers Charitable Trust

About Beavers Charitable Trust

Beavers Charitable Trust’s clearest pattern is support for engineering and heavy construction education through universities: a $600,000 grant to Colorado School of Mines Foundation for program development sits alongside large commitments for faculty and curriculum at public institutions. The trust uses both direct grants and endowed scholarship structures to move students toward careers in heavy civil construction, civil engineering, and construction management. Recent awards also show the same strategy across several campuses, with funding for a professor endowment at Pennsylvania State University and teaching positions at San Diego State University and Virginia Tech. That mix points to a funder focused on building institutional capacity rather than financing isolated projects. The trust backs professors, professors of practice, teaching positions, scholarship endowments, and applied training tools that support recruitment and workforce preparation. University partners appear repeatedly in the grant record, including California State University, Sacramento, where the trust has supported scholarships, curriculum development, and expanded curriculum. The pattern is consistent with a long-term effort to strengthen heavy construction education pipelines inside schools that train future industry workers.

What Beavers Charitable Trust Funds

A major theme is faculty and curriculum support in engineering and construction programs. Beavers Charitable Trust gave $148,139 to Asu Foundation for curriculum development, $122,000 to Uc Davis Advancement Service for curriculum development, and $50,000 to Csulb 49er Foundation for curriculum development. Scholarship endowments are another core line of giving. The trust awarded $150,000 to The University Foundation at Sacramento State to add to a scholarship endowment, $100,000 to University of the Pacific to add to a scholarship endowment, and $100,000 to South Dakota State University Foundation to establish a scholarship endowment. It also supports applied workforce development tools. A $203,500 grant to University of Nebraska Foundation funded a simulator for recruitment, while grants to universities for professors and teaching positions show a focus on instruction inside heavy construction and construction management programs.

How Beavers Charitable Trust Gives