endowment

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Families earning $85,000 would pay a total of nearly $77,000 over four years at a private college subject to the endowment tax.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 1, 2026

Support also came from the Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics through an endowment from the Kavli Foundation and its founder Fred Kavli.

From Science Daily • Mar. 1, 2026

So why was the board of trustees not willing to talk with the students about what Columbia’s endowment was invested in?

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2026

The late David Swensen, who earned high returns for Yale University’s endowment by investing in “alternative” assets such as venture capital, timberland, and private-equity buyout funds, popularized the notion of an “illiquidity premium.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 24, 2026

The regents’ breath was taken away by Lawrence’s audacious request for funds at a time when the stock market crash still weighed on the university endowment.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik