| From the issue dated Thursday, February 24, 2000 |
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1999 assets |
Percentage change
from 1998 |
| 1. |
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)1 |
$21,800,000,000 |
+1,010.6% |
| 2. |
Ford Foundation (New York) |
$13,100,000,000 |
+20.2% |
| 3. |
David and Lucile Packard Foundation (Los Altos, Calif.) |
$13,000,000,000 |
+35.4% |
| 4. |
Lilly Endowment (Indianapolis)2 |
$11,200,981,000 |
-27.2% |
| 5. |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Princeton, N.J.) |
$8,301,423,000 |
+6.9% |
| 6. |
W.K. Kellogg Foundation (Battle Creek, Mich.) |
$5,729,000,000 |
-5.6% |
| 7. |
Pew Charitable Trusts (Philadelphia) |
$4,900,000,000 |
+3.5% |
| 8. |
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (Chicago) |
$4,500,000,000 |
+9.8% |
| 9. |
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (New York) |
$4,037,800,000 |
+22.4% |
| 10. |
Rockefeller Foundation (New York) |
$3,760,000,000 |
+14.6% |
| Note: Unless otherwise noted, assets are as of 12/31/99 and changes are based on 12/31/98 figures. |
1 Asset figure as of 2/1/2000, includes $5-billion gift received in January 2000. 1998 figure is for the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, which merged in 1999 to form the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
2 1999 assets from foundation’s filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and include only the value of stock held in Eli Lilly and Company; 1998 assets are from foundation’s annual report and include all holdings. |
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