Princeton spared from endowment tax, PRINCO executive says, saving hundreds of millions

Nico David-Fox and Gray Collins May 11, 2026 1 min read

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Princeton spared from endowment tax, PRINCO executive says, saving hundreds of millions

Nico David-Fox and Gray Collins
The Daily Princetonian

Princeton will not have to pay any net investment income tax on returns from its $36.4 billion endowment, a University investment official said at a private event in January, after a recent expansion of its undergraduate financial aid program left the University below a 3,000 tuition-paying student threshold to qualify for taxation.

Experts had projected that the new tax on wealthy university endowments — enacted under H.R. 1, the omnibus tax and spending bill passed by congressional Republicans in July 2025 — would have cost Princeton roughly $180 million annually.

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