endowment
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Overseeing an endowment of about $150.3 million, Ryan is prioritizing annual support for free admission and programming while raising endowment funds for staff positions.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
Harvard University’s endowment just disclosed a $2.2 billion stake in SpaceX.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026
He also introduced him to the chief of Princeton’s endowment, who invested $10 million in Thrive’s first institutional fund.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026
The risk was exacerbated because the school has a relatively small endowment for a university of its size.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The foundation had an endowment of roughly $22 billion, which generated about $1.1 billion in annual income to spend on various projects, about half of it to improve global health.
From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French
The managers of funds offering private equity, private credit, nontraded real estate and other alternative assets say it isn’t fair that pension funds and university endowments have access to such funds while small investors don’t.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
The first institutions to feel these headwinds have been lesser-known colleges with nominal endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The funding, deployed by venture-capital firms on behalf of investors including pension funds, university endowments and wealthy individuals, is funneled into young companies and startups that show potential for robust growth.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The wealthiest universities can offset tuition costs with large endowments, making many of them more affordable than smaller, lesser-known colleges with fewer resources.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
His endowments were of a purely physical order—a 4.4 speed in the forty, a skillful ability to play both defensive back and running back, a reputation for hard, tireless work on the held.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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