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Who is behind Harvard University?

Also known as Harvard

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Over time
  1. Money in Harvard Management Company (endowment distribution, $2.5B) Jul 2024 – Jun 2025
  2. Money in Harvard Management Company (endowment distribution, $2.6B) Jul 2025 – Jun 2026

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Money in

  • Harvard Management Company funded Jul 2024 – Jun 2025 endowment distribution, $2.5B Primary record 23

    The distribution comes from the endowment funds the company invests, not from the company itself. Harvard’s financial report puts it at 37 percent of operating revenue; the company’s letter says nearly 40 percent.

  • Harvard Management Company funded Jul 2025 – Jun 2026 endowment distribution, $2.6B Primary record 45

    The distribution comes from the endowment funds the company invests, not from the company itself.

  • Isaac Royall Jr. funded bequest that endowed the Royall Professorship of Law Primary record 6
Proof 6 sources
  1. Slavery probe: Harvard’s ties inseparable from rise, Harvard Gazette, 26 Apr 2022. Primary record
    already accepted by Harvard President Larry Bacow
  2. Harvard’s Endowment, Donations Rise—but the University Runs a Deficit, Harvard Magazine, 23 Oct 2025. Scholarship & press
    endowment distributions (37 percent of the total) rose from $2.4 billion to $2.5 billion
  3. Harvard Management Company annual report, fiscal year 2025, Harvard University, Oct 2025. Primary record
    Spending from the endowment now accounts for nearly 40% of annual operating revenue
  4. Harvard Management Company annual report, fiscal year 2026, Harvard University, Oct 2026. Primary record
    distributions from the endowment totaled $2.6 billion — nearly 40% of the University’s annual operating revenue
  5. Harvard Stabilizes Finances With Strong Endowment Returns, Philanthropy, Harvard Magazine, 15 Oct 2026. Scholarship & press
    Including distributions from the endowment—the result of past philanthropy—giving provided 48 percent of Harvard’s fiscal year 2026 revenue: 39 percent from the endowment distribution and 10 percent from current use gifts.
  6. Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery: Report of the Presidential Committee on Harvard & the Legacy of Slavery, Harvard University, Apr 2022. Primary record
    the bequest of Isaac Royall Jr., whose family’s sugar plantation on the Caribbean island of Antigua furnished the wealth that endowed the Royall Professorship of Law, Harvard’s first chair in law
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