How to Use endowment in a Sentence

endowment

noun

• The college has a large endowment.
• The hospital's endowment was established by a local family.
• For over two decades, the private social club has pumped millions into an endowment for Olympic athletes.
  — Matt Sullivan, Rolling Stone, 11 Feb. 2022
• Bedford said that fundraising for this endowment is continuing, but declined to say how much money has been pledged so far.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• Many presidents find themselves in situations without large endowments, or with problems that can’t be solved by wealthy donors.
  — Ira Porter, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2024
• The former couple created the foundation, which has an endowment of $65 billion, more than 20 years ago as the main philanthropic outlet for their wealth.
  — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 2 Feb. 2022
• Yes, but: Harvard avoided total calamity in large part because of its endowment, according to the latest annual financial report.
  — Steph Solis, Axios, 18 Oct. 2024
• Most of the works were sold in 1983, with the proceeds going to the dental school’s endowment.
  — Christopher Parker, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Mar. 2023
• The school will now use that endowment land and money to build the research dairy.
  — Keith Ridler, ajc, 20 Sep. 2022
• When the house is sold or transferred … the deposit money comes back to the endowment account for others to use.
  — Joshua Bowling, The Arizona Republic, 5 July 2022
• Even with the drop-off, the university still has an endowment of $50.9 billion, among the highest in the country.
  — Justin Klawans, The Week, 15 Oct. 2022
• The same thing goes for all children, of course, whatever their endowments.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2024
• The funds will help to expand programming and to shore up the museum’s endowment.
  — La Risa R. Lynch, Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2023
• By the end of his tenure, the school’s endowment had quadrupled, growing from $5 million to $20 million.
  — Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2023
• As the anti-apartheid campaign has shown, abuses that appear far and hard to reach can be as near and dear as the school endowment and stock holdings.
  — WIRED, 26 Aug. 2022
• Xiong’s family has set up an endowment fund in his name.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 2024
• Small schools with small endowments Florida A&M is not the first school to receive a pitch from Gerami.
  — James Pollard, Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2024
• Places like the Getty and the Met, with multibillion-dollar endowments, are worthy but not needy, though the Met is worthy only part of the time.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 22 June 2023
• About a dozen pension funds and endowments have gotten back to me over the past couple days regarding ByteDance.
  — Jessica Mathews, Fortune, 9 May 2024
• The Next Stage Fund is a new endowment program based on the idea of designating money to the theater in patrons’ wills.
  — Matthew J. Palm, Orlando Sentinel, 29 June 2024
• No college with an endowment greater than $1 billion has endorsed the campaign, noted the Times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The Schreibers’ gift is the first for this endowment, which, when fully funded, could support hundreds of Loyola students a year.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 6 June 2022
• Or, the institution may even sell the work to build endowment or scholarship funds.
  — The Salt Lake Tribune, 9 June 2022
• Its endowment, battered by the market in recent years, stands at around $125 million.
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• Harvard agreed to discuss with students its endowment and their questions about its connections to the war in Gaza.
  — Vimal Patel, New York Times, 17 May 2024
• Leon’s $1 million pledge to the nonprofit will be used to start an endowment fund — a financial gift that keeps on giving.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Apr. 2022
• He was asked him to stay on in a diminished role, and Rosenberg agreed, taking on fundraising, the AHM endowment program, and writing grants.
  — Melanie Savage, Hartford Courant, 5 Jan. 2023
• Despite having an endowment the size of a small country, no amount of money is ever enough.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 11 Apr. 2023
• That’s when the endowment enlisted Abelaye-Mateo to help the group identify its purpose and commit to it.
  — Sabrina Bodon, Sacramento Bee, 30 May 2024
• Columbia University, a focal point for the protests, has one of the largest school endowments in the nation at more than $13 billion.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Nov 2024