Colleges Raising the Most Money from Foundations

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1. Harvard University (Cambridge, MA): $374,471,000
2. Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD): $289,458,554

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3. University of California — Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA): $237,922,522
4. University of San Francisco (San Francisco, CA): $237,472,591

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5. Columbia University (New York, NY): $219,638,777

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6. New York University (New York, NY): $202,660,285

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7. Emory University (Atlanta, GA): $160,364,169
8. Stanford University (Stanford, CA): $186,134,779

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9. Duke University (Durham, NC): $171,783,877

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10. University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA): $169,936,320
11. University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA): $165,752,119
12. Yale University (New Haven, CT): $157,865,187
13. The University of Chicago (Chicago, IL): $154,922,133

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14. University of Washington, Seattle (Seattle, WA): $142,517,993
15. University of Michigan — Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI): $130,667,306

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16. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA): $130,486,865
17. University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA): $117,215,273
18. Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, MO): $112,977,440
19. The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX): $103,420,885
20. Indiana University Bloomington (Bloomington, IN): $102,339,152

Source: Voluntary Support of Education, Council for Aid to Education, 2014 (Used with permission)

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