The University Financing Foundation

The world of financing and delivering the facilities and equipment needed to keep your promises as educators and researchers has changed. What once was simple and straightforward no longer is. What once was a direct line – from the need to the resources required to fill it – can now be a complex path filled with uphill climbs, costly wrong turns, and numbing dead-ends.

Capital project success today takes more than brokers or bankers. It takes a true partner like TUFF – with the experience, the connections, and the willingness – to help identify and then avoid the problems, and ultimately… deliver on the opportunities and possibilities.

TUFF is an independent 501c3 organization created specifically to provide development and financing expertise and execution ability to institutions of education and research – primarily colleges and universities. Established in 1982, TUFF has evolved and is evolving into a leading edge solutions provider for real estate development and finance on and around campuses across the country.

TUFF recently went through an extensive review process by the bond rating agencies and was given an investment grade credit rating. We expect to leverage this rating to enhance the credit of deals or act as a source of standalone credit if an institution has that need.

We are not an investment bank but we develop strategy like investment bankers. We are not a commercial bank but we do have equity which we can loan or invest into a project similar to commercial banks. In essence, we are an investment grade non-profit foundation with finance, development, and project delivery capabilities whose major purpose is to partner with institutions to maximize the economic efficiency of critical real estate projects.

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