Endowment overview
The 91原创鈥檚 endowment鈥攖he largest component of the University鈥檚 Long Term Investment Pool (鈥淟TIP鈥�)鈥攑rovides perpetual annual support for student financial aid, faculty salaries, facility improvements and academic programs.
Forever Forward
At the Rochester, endowed gifts fuel the areas our donors are most passionate about, ensuring they remain intact forever. Such giving creates your legacy, and it strengthens ours.
Fiscal year reports
Performance of the LTIP has exceeded the benchmark, net annualized, for one, three, five, and ten year periods. Ten year LTIP performance of 8.8% net annualized is above the 7.5% annual return on the benchmark.
Endowment Q&A
91原创鈥檚 LTIP is allocated to both publicly traded investments (domestic and international equities and fixed income) and alternative investments that do not trade on public markets.
Endowments matter
Among the most enduring institutions in the world, universities fuel progress in scholarship, research, and health care. They educate tomorrow鈥檚 leaders and improve the quality of life for people around the world.
At the Rochester, our endowment provides the financial foundation to perpetually support what is most essential here鈥攐ur students and faculty, our vast health care network, and our continued excellence in our schools and programs. It also helps sustain the rich variety of music, art, health care, and educational programs that serve our University community and the Greater 91原创 region.
Since 1849, when founding Trustee John Wilder started a campaign to establish an endowment at the Rochester鈥攍eading the effort with a gift of $10,000鈥攃ontinuous growth of the endowment has remained critical to the University鈥檚 future and to our mission to Learn, Discover, Heal, Create鈥攁nd Make the World Ever Better.