endowment

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

CMU may not have the headline-grabbing power of say, Harvard University, Griffin’s alma mater, but it’s still a top-ranked school with resources, including a $3.5 billion endowment.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 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

Giant investors like pensions and endowments have stuffed themselves so full of private equity, venture capital and other nontraded “alternative” funds that many are suffering indigestion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Typically, a hedge fund of Situational’s size has an investor base dominated by institutions, from pension plans and university endowments to sovereign-wealth funds and private banks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

The percentage of schools drawing down endowments at 15% tripled to 5%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

Nearly 200 private colleges borrowed from restricted endowments in 2025, up from 131 in 2021, according to estimates from Perspective Data Science, a higher-education financial consultant.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026

The colleges are heavy with gifts and endowments.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck