Updated 2:29 p.m. with 2012-13 information.

Donations to the University of Oregon have breached the $100 million mark for the seventh straight year, the school announced Monday afternoon.

Announcing via the school’s public relations blog, Around the O, the University raked in $115,150,868 through a shade less than 50,000 total donations.

Seventy-seven percent of those funds were funneled into classrooms, scholarships and other academic pursuits, cashing out to around $71.8 million. And, according to the release, 20 percent of donors were first-time donors, a boost from last year’s 12 percent.

“I am grateful to our alumni and friends who see such value in the University of Oregon. Their generosity will help advance our institution’s position as a premier public residential research university,” UO president Michael Gottfredson said. “I’m especially pleased to see such strong growth in support of our priority areas of student access and academic excellence.”

However, this year’s total is a rather steep fall from what the school banked in 2012-13 when it topped $200 million on nearly 8,000 fewer donations. Last year’s haul was the second-most all time for the university.

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