I actually asked this once to a Development person that I knew. He told me that anything over $1M USD would trigger a special tag being added to an applicant’s file. Less than $1M but over $100K would not get any added benefit, but the development people would be nicer to you. Anything under $100K they don’t even bother assigning development resources to. Obviously, the level influence of Development staff varies from one university to another.
2 Likes