endowment
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Harvard University’s endowment had a $2.2 billion stake in the company, which according to the Harvard Crimson “was worth more than all of the endowment’s other reported public holdings combined.”
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The group’s nonprofit wing also reported a 30 percent spike in revenue, bringing in $115 million in 2025 on top of its $81 million endowment.
From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2026
SpaceX shares represent roughly 10% of the University of North Carolina system endowment, for example, and it gained 37.8% for the fiscal year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
The endowment had at least a midteens percentage of its portfolio in Elon Musk’s rocket-and-satellite company earlier this year, an unusually large bet for an endowment.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
He was our leader and our magic, who kept the endowment high, the funds for scholarships plentiful and publicity moving through the channels of the press.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
The stock has already declined nearly 15% since the beginning of the current fiscal year, which means that endowments with outsized positions are now suffering.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 19, 2026
Pensions and endowments have also come to rely on investment returns often driven by cheap debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
“You either had SpaceX or you didn’t,” said Greg Dowling of Fund Evaluation Group, an investment advisory firm whose clients include endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
Yet Michigan, which boasts one of the nation’s largest endowments at about $22 billion, would be the most prominent school to take such a step.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Even more than of these good and lovely endowments, he is the God of Light, in whom is no darkness at all, and so he is the God of Truth.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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