Accounts generally are classified as Operating or Endowment Accounts. Operating accounts, also known as Current Use accounts, are invested separately from Endowment Accounts. Funds in operating accounts are available for current use spending. Endowment accounts are established by donors to exist in perpetuity with annual spending determined by the donor’s wishes or governed by the Foundation’s spending policy.
Quasi-endowments are accounts invested as an endowment, but funds are earmarked as the terms of
the endowment’s principal can be spent at any time like an Operating account.
For system tracking purposes account types are classified by their numbering scheme as follows: XX in the first two characters represent the institution
XX-2xxxx Current Use program and faculty support accounts
XX-3xxxx Current Use Scholarship accounts
XX-4xxxx Endowment accounts
XX-44xxx Quasi-endowment accounts
XX-50xxx Current Use research accounts
XX-55xxx Grant Accounts
xx -6xxxx Special program or event accounts