The Duke Endowment is a private

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established in 1924 by

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and

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James B. Duke James Buchanan Duke (December 23, 1856 – October 10, 1925) was an American tobacco and electric power industrialist best known for the introduction of modern cigarette manufacture and marketing, and his involvement with Duke Universit ...

. It supports selected programs of higher education, health care, children's welfare, and spiritual life in

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Background

James B. Duke endowed the foundation on December 11, 1924, with $40 million. In the Indenture of Trust, Duke specified that he wanted the endowment to support

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist James ...

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; non-profit hospitals and children's homes in the two Carolinas; and rural

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churches in North Carolina, retired pastors, and their surviving families. When Mr. Duke died in 1925, he left the endowment an additional $67 million. Adjusted for present value, Mr. Duke's total gifts would amount to more than $1.3 billion today. The market value of the endowment's assets has grown to $3.69 billion in 2017. From 1924 to 2018, the endowment awarded over $3.7 billion in grants. The Duke Endowment is a co-publisher, along with the

North Carolina Institute of Medicine The North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NC IOM) is a quasi-state agency charged with building consensus on critical matters of health policy facing North Carolina and advising on health matters. History The North Carolina Institute of Medicine ...

, of the ''North Carolina Medical Journal'', a journal of health policy analysis and debat

The endowment was established by a trust indenture that Donor intent, specifies how the funds were to be used. First, $6 million was to be used to either found a

or to enhance Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina, if that school changed its name to Duke University within three months. The remaining funds were to be invested (primarily in

Duke Power Company Duke Energy Corporation is an American electric power and natural gas holding company headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. Overview Based in Charlotte, North Carolina, Duke Energy owns 58,200 megawatts of base-load and peak generation in ...

stock). Of the income generated annually by these funds, 20% were to be reinvested, each trustee was to receive 0.2%, and the rest was to be paid out in the following allocation:

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