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The Board of Directors of the UCLA Foundation approved a spending rate of 4.25% for FY24–25, which maintains the current spending rate from last year.

This stated spending rate is applied to the average unit value of the trailing 12 quarters (one quarter lagged) of the Endowed Investment Pool in order to determine the amount to be distributed each quarter.

Because a smoothing formula is utilized to calculate the quarterly distributions, one cannot infer if this year's distributions will increase, decrease or remain the same relative to last year's solely based upon whether the approved spending rate increased, decreased or remained the same. To help fundholders forecast their expected distributions for FY24–25, the Foundation forecasts a per share distribution of $1.66 to fundholders for the coming fiscal year.

The Board of Directors considers the following in determining the spending rate for FY24–25:
• Preserve the endowment corpus in real terms (i.e. adjusted for inflation)
• Provide a current source of funding for fundholders
• Provide year-to-year budget stability for fundholders
• Meet the intergenerational needs of current and future beneficiaries of the endowment