endowment

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Like UNC Management Co., the endowment for the UNC system, a key factor was its early investment in Founders Fund, which began investing in SpaceX in 2008.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The University of North Carolina system, which serves 17 institutions, has roughly 10% of its endowment tied up in SpaceX, according to people familiar with the endowment.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The endowment, $13.4 billion as of June 30, made a call to put money into SpaceX in 2018, investing alongside Vy Capital, but also has exposure through multiple managers who invested in SpaceX.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 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

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