Key facts

Reported value

USD 414.3 million

As of

FY2025 survey reporting period

Portfolio

Survey respondent endowment

Location

Danville, KY

Data through FY2025

Balance reference

Endowment size and reporting scope

For Centre College, the survey reports USD 414.294 million for FY2025 and USD 399.402 million for FY2024. These totals retain the respondent's published scope. A pooled investment fund can also hold resources outside permanent endowments, while financial statements can include interests administered by outside trustees. Those accounting boundaries help explain why one organization may publish more than one long-term-asset figure. Closing market value alone does not identify how much support a beneficiary can spend. Survey scope and definitions

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2025

The FY2025 survey value for Centre College is USD 414.294 million, compared with USD 399.402 million for FY2024. The USD 14.892 million movement is 3.73% of the earlier balance. It includes changes in investments as well as additions and distributions. NACUBO explicitly distinguishes this change in market value from an investment rate of return. FY2025 respondent values and definitions

The available history begins in FY2016 at USD 269.770 million and ends in FY2025 at USD 414.294 million. The change across those observations is USD 144.524 million. The smallest reported balance in the displayed series is USD 269.770 million in FY2016; the largest is USD 420.214 million in FY2021. The change in assets includes gifts and distributions as well as investment results. NACUBO historical workbook

Spending policy and payout

The FY2025 NCSE $250M to $500M group reports an average effective spending rate of 5.2%. That is a survey-group statistic and is not assigned as Centre College's policy. An institution's own spending rule can use several prior valuation dates, a prior-year dollar draw or additional adjustments. Its approved appropriation and the cash ultimately spent by a department can differ in timing. NCSE spending-rate table

For Centre College, the survey value records a closing balance in FY2025. It does not identify the valuation dates used to calculate a distribution. A policy based on earlier values can produce a different dollar draw from a percentage of the current balance. The peer statistic is retained as a group comparison, with no institution-specific payout inferred. Spending measures

Governance and investment office

The FY2025 respondent is Centre College, located in Danville, KY. NACUBO classifies it as a private college/university endowment or other non-profit institution. The survey's respondent table identifies the reporting unit but supplies no individual investment-office appointment. Respondent identity and type

Federal excise tax on investment income

Public Law 119-21 changed Section 4968 for tax years beginning after December 31, 2025. Applicable private institutions must have at least 3,000 tuition-paying students in the preceding tax year, with more than half located in the United States, and student-adjusted endowment of at least $500,000. The rates are 1.4% from $500,000 through $750,000 per student, 4% above $750,000 through $2 million, and 8% above $2 million. Enacted law, Section 70415

An institution's tax tier requires its statutory asset base, eligible student count and related-organization treatment. The survey's closing market value does not supply that calculation. No institution-specific rate is assigned without an institutional disclosure. A campus's enrollment in a public fact sheet can differ from the daily-average, full-time-equivalent count required by the law.

Section 4968 taxes net investment income. Its asset and student definitions govern applicability and the rate.

FY2025 size-band comparison

The FY2025 survey value of USD 414.294 million places this respondent in the $250M to $500M band. The published band contains 102 respondents and USD 37.1 billion of aggregate assets. Its average five-year annualized net return is 10.0%, and its ten-year average is 7.6%. The size band uses the FY2025 NACUBO balance. NCSE size groups NCSE average net returns

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2025

The peer mix describes average reported exposures within one size band. It does not reveal individual securities or the availability of cash at a particular institution. Respondents can also use different policy benchmarks. NCSE returns are net of external management fees and expenses for periods ending June 30, 2025; those periods and fee labels govern any numerical return comparison on this page. NCSE allocation definitions

Public records and reporting dates

The ProPublica nonprofit API identifies the legal filer as Centre College Of Kentucky, EIN 610444671. Its available filing for the year ended June 30, 2023 reports total filer assets of USD 669.389 million, revenue of USD 105.077 million, expenses of USD 130.151 million. These are filer-wide amounts, which can include buildings, operating resources and other assets outside the endowment. The filing period is retained separately from the current investment disclosures. ProPublica structured filing data

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