The National Humanities Center is an independent, privately incorporated institute supported by grants and contributions from individuals, corporations, foundations, and universities and other institutions, as well as other public and private sources. The Center also has a permanent endowment, valued at $37.9 million on June 30, which provided expendable income covering approximately 35 percent of its annual operating costs.

Following is a summary of annual and endowment giving for 1998–99, and a list of the individuals, corporations, foundations, and other institutions that provided annual or endowment support during the year. In addition to those individuals and institutions listed below, the Center would like to express its gratitude to those who made in-kind gifts during 1998–99, especially the Fellows who added books written at the Center to the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Collection, and the anonymous donor who gave nine volumes of the Loeb Classical Library.

External support from corporations, foundations, and other organizations for program and operations:	$2,094,744
Corporations, private foundations, and     similar sources:	$1,529,901
National Endowment for the Humanities:	$459,843
Duke University and the     University of North Carolina:	$105,000
Annual giving by Individuals:	$430,011
Current, emeriti, and former Trustees:	$267,807
Fellows:	$51,191
Other friends:	$111,014
Total number of annual giving donors:	688

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