Key facts

Reported value

USD 2.20 billion

As of

June 30, 2026

Portfolio

Endowment

Investment office

University of Georgia Foundation

Data through FY2026

Balance reference

Endowment size and reporting scope

A managed pool is an investment vehicle with participating accounts. Its market value can include assets whose owner intends to spend them on a different timetable from a perpetual gift. The endowment balance identifies the funds held for endowed purposes; the wider institutional balance sheet also includes buildings, receivables and obligations. Donor restrictions attach to the account and its use of income even when investments are selected together. Accounting scope therefore remains part of the meaning of each reported figure. Financial reporting basis

The latest balance is labelled uga foundation endowed assets, rounded and is dated June 30, 2026. The return series identifies the portfolio as Endowment. The historical survey below retains the respondent scope reported to NACUBO. A pooled investment vehicle can include working capital, reserves or assets for associated organizations alongside endowed gifts. Each participating fund owns its own economic interest in that vehicle. The pool's market value, the institution's endowment balance and the investment manager's corporate assets describe different quantities. Official report

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2026

The survey series begins at USD 1,016.7 million in FY2016 and ends at USD 2,183.0 million in FY2025. Its USD 1,166.3 million change is measured after gifts, spending and other balance movements. NACUBO historical values FY2025 respondent table

Spending policy and payout

The report states that more than $38 million in scholarship support was allocated to more than 10,500 students during FY2026. That is scholarship support, rather than total endowment payout. The foundation also supports faculty, programs and other university purposes through gifts and investment income. Spending disclosure

The policy formula controls how the operating budget receives support across market cycles. Its averaging base can differ from the latest fiscal-year-end balance. The dollar distribution records support for a stated year, while a budget-support percentage measures the institution's reliance on that support. Distribution basis

The operating budget records the use of endowment support alongside other revenue. The share of a budget supplied by the endowment measures institutional reliance. The spending-policy rate instead measures an appropriation against the institution's stated asset base. The two percentages can move differently when expenses or other revenues change. A reported dollar distribution is useful alongside both, provided that the reporting period and beneficiary scope stay attached to it. Spending and reporting scope

Governance and investment office

The Foundation Board of Trustees has 47 members. Trustees oversee stewardship and direct available support to campus priorities. The university and related foundations appear as a combined survey respondent, while the foundation annual report gives its own asset scope. Investment governance

Federal excise tax on investment income

Public Law 119-21 changed Section 4968 for tax years beginning after December 31, 2025. The private-college schedule requires at least 3,000 tuition-paying students in the preceding tax year, 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

This respondent includes a public university and affiliated charitable organizations. State colleges and universities described in Section 511(a)(2)(B) are excluded from Section 4968. An affiliated foundation is a separate legal organization. Its public-charity filing status does not itself establish liability for the private-foundation investment-income tax or a private-college tier. Related-organization rules must be read with the public-university exclusion.

The statutory asset base excludes assets used directly for exempt purposes and uses prior-year values and the statutory student-count rules. A survey endowment divided by a fall enrollment count does not reproduce that calculation. An endowment appropriation rate uses a different denominator from a tax rate on investment income.

FY2025 size-band comparison

The FY2025 NACUBO respondent value of USD 2,183.0 million places this reporting entity in the $1B to $5B band. The published group contains 125 respondents. Its average annualized five-year return was 10.8%, its ten-year average was 8.0%, and its average effective spending rate was 4.5%. These are survey averages for FY2025. Respondent counts Average net returns Spending-rate table

Source: NACUBO · Data through FY2025

The size band follows the survey's FY2025 respondent balance. It does not change when a newer pool figure covers additional assets. Survey respondent values and managed-pool values retain their separate scopes. Survey allocation definitions

The NCSE allocation groups combine several underlying investment strategies. Alternatives can include private capital, hedge funds and real assets, so matching that broad percentage does not imply matching individual holdings or liquidity. The size-band return is an average of respondent results. It describes a survey group for a common period and does not replace the institution's own investment-policy benchmark. Trailing five- and ten-year returns are annualized compound results, while the one-year return measures the final fiscal year alone. NCSE definitions

Public records and reporting dates

The fund or manager report supplies the financial reference for this profile. The reporting vehicle and its participating institutions have different accounts. Fund assets, investor interests and the manager's own balance sheet should be read within their respective financial statements. Official reporting vehicle

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