President Donald Trump signed into law a sweeping tax and spending package that significantly raises the federal excise tax ...

A new law, signed by former President Trump, significantly raises the endowment tax for wealthy private universities like ...

Harvard University’s campaign of defiance against the Trump administration could cost the Ivy League university up to a $1 ...

The projected deficit assumes a worst-case scenario for Harvard: total loss of federal research grants and student aid, a ban ...

The university has engaged in talks with the administration and has tried to drum up money from private sources.

Harvard, like many universities, has directed an annual payout rate of about 5-5.5% of its endowment’s annual market value, which in fiscal year 2024 resulted in roughly $2.4 billion to fund its ...

Harvard’s endowment is not a $53.2 billion pile of cash. But as the University sits on the precipice of historic financial losses, it has increasingly faced calls to draw from endowment funds to ...

Harvard University’s endowment ranks second-to-last among Ivy League schools in annualized returns over the last 20 years — hurt partially by the fund shelling out nearly $800 million to ...

Harvard's endowment, at more than $50 billion, is the biggest among U.S. universities and is larger than the GDP of more than 120 nations, including countries such as Tunisia, Bahrain and Iceland.

The push for Harvard to tap into its $53 billion endowment is mounting as the Trump administration escalates its financial assault on the university. But on multiple fronts, that move would be ...

Harvard's endowment, which was $53.2 billion at the end of fiscal year 2021, is not a hedge fund by any definition of the term. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission defines a hedge fund as ...