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

The company had to immediately launch an independent website, reconstruct its mailing list from scratch—the release of its data, along with $20 million in endowment funds, is still being litigated—and sell tickets for its shows.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

Even though I had been at Hampden only a few days, I was already accustomed to the official accounts of financial hardship, of limited endowment, of corners cut.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt