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.
• 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 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
• Xiong’s family has set up an endowment fund in his name.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 22 Jan. 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
• No college with an endowment greater than $1 billion has endorsed the campaign, noted the Times.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Its endowment, battered by the market in recent years, stands at around $125 million.
  — Malcolm Gay, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2023
• 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
• Our school’s 5 billion dollar endowment will no longer be used to fuel the climate crisis.
  — Alicia Colomer, Rolling Stone, 16 Sep. 2023
• The Duke Mansion board set a goal of $5 million to build up its endowment and cover capital improvements to the garden.
  — Emily Hedrick, Charlotte Observer, 1 Feb. 2024
• When Trible arrived, the school had a small endowment and an unimposing campus.
  — Brandi Kellam, ProPublica, 22 Dec. 2023
• Today the university is world renowned in the medical and hard science fields, and its endowment is more than $42 billion.
  — Clay Risen, New York Times, 11 July 2023
• Some have endowments, but much of that funding has restricted usage.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 24 July 2023
• An endowment that swelled to $350 million proved a crucial part of the orchestra’s pandemic safety net.
  — Jessica Gelt, Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• In the early 2000s, Bills served as chief investment officer for U-Va.’s endowment.
  — Gregory S. Schneider, Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2023
• The college’s revenue more than doubled; its endowment is now nearly $1 billion.
  — Danny Hakim, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• Baker has a large endowment, yet the proceeds remain largely untouched.
  — Anna Clark, ProPublica, 28 Sep. 2023
• Gates said that Buffett’s donation is likely the largest gift ever given to the foundation, which has an endowment of $53 billion.
  — Byalena Botros, Fortune, 20 Dec. 2022
• One problem the endowment is addressing is the maternal and infant mortality rate across the state.
  — Megan Woolard, Journal Sentinel, 7 Sep. 2023
• During Saban’s tenure, the school's enrollment doubled, its endowment exploded and more than half of its freshmen now come from out of state.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• The Getty, secure with an $8-billion endowment, offered to share the purchase some months ago, but Britain at first declined, determined to have the picture remain in London full-time.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2023
• Suzman noted that giving rates in the U.S. would be higher if there were stronger laws mandating that foundations spend a minimum amount of their endowment per year.
  — Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 25 Jan. 2024
• The Met’s endowment, which was valued at $306 million, was already considered small for an institution of its size.
  — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2022
• Beyond endowment care, Gipson’s bill added the tweak allowing a city or county to step in to appoint a temporary caretaker.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• Much of the program’s ongoing funding will come from a gift by the Rales Foundation, which is providing an endowment of $110 million to support the initiative.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• Schools with strong brands and large endowments, such as Wellesley College, are in a better position to fare the challenging market conditions.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 21 June 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024