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===Finance=== In 2017 the university reported $4.893 billion in revenues and $5.666 billion in expenses, resulting in an operating loss of $774 million. This loss was offset by $342 million in state appropriations, $443 million in investment income, $166 million in gifts, and $185 million of other non-operating revenues.<ref name="2017 Bondholder Report">{{Cite web |url=https://finance.uw.edu/treasury/sites/default/files/2017%20Bondholders%20Report.pdf |title=2017 Bondholder Report |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511012734/https://finance.uw.edu/treasury/sites/default/files/2017%20Bondholders%20Report.pdf |archive-date=May 11, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, the university's net position increased by $363 million in 2017.<ref name="2017 Bondholder Report" /> ==== Donors==== The university is funded in part by donations from [[philanthropists]], foundations, and corporations, as well as individual donors.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Recognition |url=https://www.washington.edu/giving/recognition/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610172724/https://www.washington.edu/giving/recognition/ |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=University of Washington |language=en }}</ref> [[Bill Gates Sr.]] and his son [[Bill Gates]], as well as [[Melinda French Gates]] and the [[Gates Foundation]], are described as having an "unmatched" impact across the entire university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Gates family |url=https://www.washington.edu/giving/recognition/gates-volunteer-service-award/about-the-gates-family/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801231844/https://www.washington.edu/giving/recognition/gates-volunteer-service-award/about-the-gates-family/ |archive-date=August 1, 2017 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=University of Washington |language=en }}</ref> As of 2020, the university's Honor Roll of Donors recognized top contributors as including Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, [[Microsoft]], the [[Robert Wood Johnson Foundation]], and the late [[Paul G. Allen]].<ref name="University of Washington; Amazon Web Services-2020">{{Cite web |date=October 2020 |title=Honor Roll of Donors |url=https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2020/10/29094302/RTC_HonorRoll_2020.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610164520/https://uw-s3-cdn.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/83/2020/10/29094302/RTC_HonorRoll_2020.pdf |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=June 10, 2022 |website=University of Washington; [[Amazon Web Services]] }}</ref> Additional notable donors include [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]], [[AstraZeneca]], [[Bayer]], [[BlackRock]], [[Boeing]], [[Burroughs Wellcome Fund]], [[Carnegie Corporation of New York]], [[Chan Zuckerberg Initiative]], [[China Medical Board]], [[Eli Lilly and Company]], [[Gilead Sciences]], [[GlaxoSmithKline]], [[Merck & Co.|Merck]], [[Monsanto]], [[Novartis]], [[Open Philanthropy (organization)|Open Philanthropy]], [[Open Society Foundations]], [[Pfizer]], [[Rockefeller Foundation]], and [[Wellcome Trust]].<ref name="University of Washington; Amazon Web Services-2020"/> ====Endowment==== Endowed gifts are commingled in the university's Consolidated Endowment Fund, managed by an internal investment company at an annual cost of approximately $6.2 million.<ref name="2017 Bondholder Report" /> The university reported $443.383 million of investment income in fiscal year 2017.<ref name="2017 Bondholder Report" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://finance.uw.edu/treasury/sites/default/files/Quarterly%20Investment%20Performance%20Report%20as%20of%20December%2031%2C%202017.pdf |title=University of Washington Quarterly Investment Performance Report |last=University of Washington Investment Management Company |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013316/http://finance.uw.edu/treasury/sites/default/files/Quarterly%20Investment%20Performance%20Report%20as%20of%20December%2031%2C%202017.pdf |archive-date=May 11, 2018 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ====Major projects==== In 2018, the university claimed to have nearly $1 billion in new construction underway.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-has-1-billion-in-buildings-going-up-or-planned-in-seattle/ |title=UW has $1 billion in buildings going up or planned in Seattle |date=April 29, 2018 |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=May 10, 2018 |language=en-US |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180511013741/https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/education/uw-has-1-billion-in-buildings-going-up-or-planned-in-seattle/ |archive-date=May 11, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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