May 30, 2011
How the Survey of Endowments Was Compiled
The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s eighth annual special report on nonprofit endowments includes data from 213 large nonprofits and foundations.
The total value of the endowments for the group was $340.2-billion in 2010.
For organizations that provided data for both 2009 and 2010, the median increase in endowment value from year to year was 9.4 percent, meaning that half grew by more and half did less well.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation continues
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