The Long Gray Line Endowment supplies the basis for all Association of Graduates (AOG) operational funding, thus allowing the AOG to perform its critical mission of providing services and support to West Point's graduates as members of USMA Classes, as members of West Point societies, and as individuals. A few of the benefits to alumni that the Long Gray Line Endowment provides are: e-mail list servers, web pages, handbooks for class and society leaders, class reunion support, the annual Leaders' Conference at West Point, minority graduate outreach programs, career transition assistance, archival record keeping, e-mail newsletters, hard-copy publications, and home-football weekend open houses in the Alumni Center. In addition, the Endowment allows the AOG to give cadet classes their Affirmation Day coin, their first branch insignia, help in developing their constitutions, and a host of other benefits. Below are some of the uses for this endowment:
			Support for Cadets
				R-Day AOG Open House / Support to New Cadet Parents
				"Cow" Affirmation Ceremony
				Graduating Class AOG Open House
				Graduating Class AOG Packet
				Cadet Graduating Class Officers' AOG Banquet
				"First Brass"
			Support for Alumni
				AOG Services Brochure
				Graduate Guide for Members of the Long Gray Line
				Recall Newsletter
				Register of Graduates
				Assembly
				Gift Shop Fall / Christmas Catalogue
				Gift Shop Summer Catalogue
				Grade Insignia Brass for Active Duty Graduates
				Career Services
				Alumni Travel Program Support
				80 & Over Alumni Birthday Card
				AOG Death Notification Program
			Affinity Group Outreach / Public Relations
				Minority Outreach Conference
				Class & Society Leaders' Conference
				Society Leaders' Handbook
				Distinguished Society Award
				Society Distinguished Speakers Program
				Society Media Kits
				Class Leaders' Handbook
				Reunion Support to Classes
				"Friends of West Point" Program
				Marketing / Advocacy: Staffing
				Marketing / Advocacy Program Support
				USMA Staff & Faculty AOG Orientation
				Army Football Away - Game AOG (Alumni Services) Tailgates
				Army - Air Force Football AOG (Alumni Services) Tailgate
				Annual Army - Navy Football AOG (Alumni Services) Tailgate
			AOG Administration
				Herbert Hall Alumni Center
				AOG Van
				AOG Software Acquisition and Maintenance Endowment
				AOG Computer Hardware Endowment
				AOG Software Training
				AOG Internet Services & Website Advertising
				AOG Senior Executive Travel
				AOG January Board of Trustees Meeting
				AOG May Board of Trustees Meeting
				AOG October Board of Trustees & West Point Fund Meeting