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.
• By the mid-1980s, grants from the foundation were once again on the rise, as was the endowment.
  — New York Times, 23 Dec. 2021
• 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
• The largest share of the new funds, $30 million, will go to the school’s endowment and restricted funds.
  — Graydon Megan, chicagotribune.com, 7 Dec. 2021
• That gain brought the endowment’s value to $37.7 billion at the time.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
• Part of the money — $40 million — will be added to its endowment.
  — Domenica Bongiovanni, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Dec. 2021
• Some of that wealth has been set aside in an endowment fund which totals about $2.3 billion.
  — Yamil Berard, ajc, 19 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Funds from the sale will go towards growing the Whitney’s endowment.
  — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• 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
• Much of the gift will go to the endowment but a large part, in a sign of the times, will also help the orchestra upgrade its video technology.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 26 Dec. 2021
• 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
• Oh, and the money doesn’t go to the football program, but mostly to fund financial aid endowment).
  — Terence Moore, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• No college with an endowment greater than $1 billion has endorsed the campaign, noted the Times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• The foundation is required to spend down its endowment after its co-founders’ deaths.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• 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
• The endowment, which was established when New Mexico became a state in 1912, is funded by taxes on revenue from nonrenewable resources, mainly oil and gas reserves.
  — Maya Huter, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
• Harvard's endowment distributed $2.4 billion toward the university's operating budget, which was up from $2.2 billion the prior year.
  — Dan Primack, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Jan 2025