Yale received $231 million in gifts to its endowment in fiscal 2024.
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Yale University reported a 5.7% return on its endowment in fiscal year 2024, which ended June 30. That $2.3 billion investment gain, in addition to $231 million in endowment gifts, brought the total value of the fund to $41.4 billion, up from $40.7 billion at the end of fiscal 2023.
The investment growth is an improvement over the last two years, when Yale reported a 1.8% and 0.8% return, respectively, but it trails the results of six of its Ivy League peers—Columbia University and Brown University both notched returns over 11%, while Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Cornell University reported returns over 7%. Princeton’s $34 billion fund generated the lowest return of the Ivies, 3.9%, in fiscal 2024.
Like many colleges and universities, Yale’s endowment is…
