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HBCU Money’s 2019 Top 10 HBCU Endowments

Posted on February 12, 2020 by | 4 comments

The adjective that best describes 2019 HBCU endowments – uninspiring. HBCU flagship endowments barely moved over the past calendar year. Of all reporting endowments, only The University of the Virgin Islands saw double digit gains in their endowment market value. Since breaking into the top 10 HBCU endowments in 2014, UVI has been on a meteoric rise almost doubling their endowment over the past six years and has become something of a canary in a coal mine.

There is plenty of blame to go around, but the jest of the matter is HBCUs and HBCU alumni associations continue to not do a good enough job of hammering financial and philanthropic literacy among their constituents. This leads to either a lack of investing or no investing at all among HBCU alumni and HBCU alumni associations and therefore a paltry engagement both from an alumni giving rate and alumni giving amounts. Simply put, there are still far too many HBCU alumni and students who do not know what an endowment is or its purpose and it is reflected in the endowments of our institutions.

If there is any solace to be taken from this year’s numbers, it is that HBCU endowments are largely in line with the overall sentiment of America’s college and university endowments. Unfortunately, the median HBCU endowment is less than 44 percent of the overall NACUBO median reporting endowment and HBCU endowments are just barely 18 percent of the NACUBO average reporting endowment.

HIGHLIGHTS:

  • HBCU Endowment Total – $2.1 billion
  • Number of PWIs Above $2 billion – 54
  • Number of PWIs Above $1 billion – 108
  • HBCU Median – $64.8 million (4.07%)
  • NACUBO Median – $149 million (5.02%)
  • HBCU Average – $148 million (4.25%)
  • NACUBO Average – $816.4 million (4.24%)

All values are in millions ($000)

1. Howard University – $692,832 (0.62%)

2. Spelman College – $390,462 (0.27%)

3.  Hampton University – $282,543 (-0.98%)

4.  Meharry Medical College – $159,146 (-0.48%)

5.  Florida A&M University – $98,213 (1.93%)

6.  University of the Virgin Islands – $71,684 (15.83%)

7. North Carolina A&T State University  – $68,459 (7.58%)

8.  Tennessee State University – $61,110 (4.11%)

9. Virginia State University – $57,383 (5.33%)

10.  Winston-Salem State University – $49,755 (7.66%)

OTHERS REPORTING:

Take a look at how an endowment works. Not only scholarships to reduce the student debt burden but research, recruiting talented faculty & students, faculty salaries, and a host of other things can be paid for through a strong endowment. It ultimately is the lifeblood of a college or university to ensure its success generation after generation.

Source: NACUBO

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The 20 Year Review: 1996 & 2016 HBCU Endowments Then & Now

Posted on February 8, 2017 by | 1 comment

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The 2016 HBCU Money’s Top 10 HBCU Endowments list is out. NACUBO’s list this year included 815 reporting institutions from the U.S. and Canada. Here are a few fast facts of then and now in regards to HBCUs place in the whole of the endowment conversation.

  • Of the 815 reporting institutions in 2016, only 1.8 percent were HBCUs. HBCUs comprise 3 percent of American colleges and universities. In 1996, Of the 467 reporting institutions in 1994, only 0.8 percent were HBCUs.
  • 20 years ago, the 4 HBCUs who were present on the list had a combined endowment value of $468.2 million versus the top 4 HWCUs who had a combined endowment value of $23.8 billion.
  • The endowment wealth gap between the top HWCUs/HBCUs in 2016 was 101:1. In 1996, it was 51:1.
  • In 1996, 20 HWCUs reported endowments over $1 billion and 3 HBCUs reported endowments over $100 million. In 2016, there were 93 HWCUs with reported endowments over $1 billion or an increase of 365 percent. HBCUs increased their ranks of $100 million endowments from 2 to 5 or an increase of 150 percent – unchanged from the 1994 to 2014 review.
  • The 101:1 gap currently is actually a decrease from our 2014 review where the gap was 106:1. A significant 4.7 percent decrease.
  • Of the 805 within the United States, 74.3 percent of the $515 billion in endowment value is controlled by 11.3 percent or 91 institutions.
  • The favorite investment of endowments above $100 million is alternative strategies*, which for endowments above $1 billion make up 58 percent, between $501 million to $1 billion make up 45 percent, and endowments $101 million to $500 million constitute 35 percent of their portfolio.
  • While the majority of HBCUs fall well under the $100 million sphere, the favorite investment among those groups are domestic equities, constituting in the range of 33 to 44 percent of portfolios under $100 million.

*Alternative strategies are categorized in the NCSE as follows: Private equity (LBOs, mezzanine, M&A funds, and international private equity); Marketable alternative strategies (hedge funds, absolute return, market neutral, long/short, 130/30, and event-driven and derivatives); Venture capital; Private equity real-estate (non-campus); Energy and natural resources (oil, gas, timber, commodities and managed futures); and Distressed debt. On-campus real estate is included in the Short-term Securities/Cash/Other category.

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