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.
• Funds from the sale will go towards growing the Whitney’s endowment.
  — Angelica Villa, ARTnews.com, 4 Nov. 2024
• Depending on the returns of the endowment, its grant cycles will fluctuate in size.
  — Zachery Eanes, Axios, 19 Nov. 2024
• Davenport, with an endowment of about $28 million, has a policy to spend 5% of its earnings each year.
  — David Jesse and Anna Clark, Freep.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• It is funded by a $100 million endowment established by the foundation.
  — CBS News, 19 Jan. 2022
• Teams playing down could be able to schedule an endowment game at the end of the regular season, providing a postseason experience for the teams.
  — oregonlive, 11 Jan. 2022
• The changes are part of efforts to add more governance and independence to one of the world’s largest philanthropies, which has an endowment of more than $50 billion.
  — Emily Glazer, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
• Baker spends about 3% of the Jewell endowment earnings annually.
  — David Jesse and Anna Clark, Freep.com, 12 Jan. 2022
• 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
• That gain brought the endowment’s value to $37.7 billion at the time.
  — Michael T. Nietzel, Forbes, 26 Jan. 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 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
• 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

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024