endowment
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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
Even Harvard’s endowment was revealed to hold $2.2 billion in SpaceX shares as of the end of the second quarter.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 17, 2026
Many Church of England clergy independently owned slaves, and a recent report by the Church's endowment fund reported the institution made large investments in the slave trade from which it made huge sums of money.
From BBC ● Aug. 16, 2026
Soon afterward, Kenneth M. Olsen and Barbara A. Schaal of Washington University in St. Louis demonstrated that domesticated manioc’s genetic endowment was derived from flabelli-folia, suggesting the latter was ancestral to it.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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
Michael Canty, a business owner who had joined the board the prior year, began to suspect that the school was improperly borrowing from restricted endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
That is translating into boards ill-prepared for tough choices, said Laura MacDonald, who runs Benefactor Group, a company that helps institutions build and preserve endowments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
His father was a successful insurance executive, so life was always comfortable, and Edwin enjoyed a wealth of physical endowments, too.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The Federalist Papers, No. 10 by James Madison
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