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4.5x

4.5x -- return on investment for Major Gift Officers with fully dedicated administrative assistant (2012)

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Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-27

2012 · Veritus Group

For a Major Gift Officer with a fully dedicated and functional administrative assistant, the modeled ROI is 4.5:1 ($4.50 returned for every dollar spent).

Modeled scenario assuming a starting first-year caseload value of $1 million across 150 qualified donors

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Value

4.5x

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Ratio

Data Vintage

2012

Entity

Major Gift Officers with fully dedicated administrative assistant

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61/100 confidence

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Source

Veritus Group Primary Tier B

http://veritusgroup.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/want-to-raise-more-money-hire-administrative-support/ ↗

Confidence: 28/100 Vintage: 2012 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Want to Raise More Money? Hire Administrative Support!

Original Research

Veritus Group · Original study ↗

Methodology

Veritus Group modeled scenario: net second-year value of $1M caseload with vs without administrative support

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Major Gift Officers with fully dedicated administrative assistant: 4.5x return on investment. Source: Veritus Group (2012). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/mgo-admin-support-roi-4-5

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