endowment
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His Gates Foundation, one of the largest in the world, with an $89 billion endowment, has paved the way on global health and development efforts, including in the fight against childhood mortality and infectious diseases.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026
There’s the investment manager of the endowment at Washington University in St. Louis who plunked down $50 million into SpaceX External link nearly a decade ago, which is now worth in excess of $1 billion.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
There’s the investment manager of the endowment at Washington University in St. Louis who plunked down $50 million into SpaceX External link nearly a decade ago, which is now worth in excess of $1 billion.
From Barron's • May 29, 2026
Narvekar led Columbia’s endowment from 2002 to 2016.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 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
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