California Academy of Sciences Endowment

California Academy of Sciences manages an endowment fund which is based in San Francisco, California. The mission of this endowment fund was to explore, explain and sustain the natural world using the resources of the natural history museum, aquarium, and planetarium. The academy's endowment fund includes permanently restricted contributions, unrestricted and purpose-restricted contributions which have been internally designated as endowment funds. The endowment fund is managed by the board of trustees.California Academy of Sciences Endowment's investment portfolio is valued at $194.49 million, with investments in domestic and foreign equity, private equity funds, hedge funds, real estate, and cash & cash equivalents.