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Harvard's endowment fund, the world's largest university endowment, grew to $53.2 billion in fiscal 2024 amid strong investment returns even though endowment gifts shrank by a third as donors ...
Harvard University’s endowment ranks second-to-last among Ivy League schools in annualized returns over the last 20 years after soaring success in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to a report.
The Harvard University endowment, valued at $50.7 billion as of June 30, 2023, [1] is the largest academic endowment in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Its value increased by over 10 billion dollars in fiscal year 2021, ending the year with its largest sum in history. [ 4 ]
In 2017, a federal endowment tax was enacted in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 in the form of an excise tax of 1.4% on institutions that have at least 500 tuition-paying students and net assets of at least $500,000 per student. The $500,000 is not adjusted for inflation, so the threshold is effectively lowered over time.
Three holdings account for 78% of Harvard's close to $1.6 billion of invested assets.
Endowment [needs update] Institution Country Endowment Endowment per student Year Ref. King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Saudi Arabia: 20 billion 2013 [1] Université Paris-Saclay France: 10.2 billion 2013 [2] National University of Singapore Singapore: 4.81 billion 138,800 2020 [3] King Saud University Saudi Arabia: 2.7 billion
[3] [4] In part due to such scrutiny, the pair left Harvard to form their own firm, Adage Capital Management. [2] [3] [4] They took with them an 18-person team and a $1.8 billion day-one investment from Harvard in exchange for an initial agreement (now expired) to pay ten percent of Adage's earnings to the university. [3] [4]
Harvard created Brodiaea in 2012, and by 2015 the unit had already purchased 10,000 acres in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties for about $60 million, according to an earlier report by ...