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Overview

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Investment Management Company (MITIMCo) invests exclusively on behalf of MIT, a world-class research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MITIMCo operates as MIT's dedicated investment office, managing the endowment and other institutional assets to support the university's mission of advancing knowledge and education. As of June 30, 2025, the endowment stood at $27.4 billion, with total net assets of $37.7 billion including quasi-endowed and non-endowed investments. The organization employs more than 80 professionals across three teams: Global Investment Staff, which pursues public and private investment opportunities worldwide; Cambridge Real Estate, which manages commercial real estate around the MIT campus and advances the university's innovation ecosystem in Kendall Square; and Operations, which handles infrastructure, reporting, and compliance functions.

MITIMCo's structure reflects MIT's commitment to long-term investment excellence and institutional independence. The organization operates with decision authority vested in its Board of Directors, which holds four regularly scheduled meetings during the fiscal year to review investment policy, performance, and asset allocation. Glen Shor serves as Executive Vice President and Treasurer of MIT, reporting to the MIT Corporation, the university's governing body. Sally Kornbluth serves as President of MIT. MITIMCo's investment approach favors equity investments over fixed-income instruments and is heavily weighted toward less efficient markets to generate high real rates of return without exceptional volatility. The organization pursues unconventional opportunities and partners with investment firms early in their development, sometimes serving as their sole external partner. This approach extends to MITIMCo's emerging manager program, which invests in firms with five million dollars or less of assets under management, portfolio managers with limited experience, and non-institutional firms including one-person shops and firms with unusual structures.

MIT primarily invests through external fund managers rather than managing assets directly in-house, a model that allows access to top investment talent globally while maintaining a broadly diversified portfolio. The Cambridge Real Estate team represents an exception to this external-manager model, directly managing commercial real estate holdings around the MIT campus to build local community and support the university's innovation ecosystem. MITIMCo also manages investments for MIT's defined benefit pension plan, which held $6.2 billion in assets as of June 30, 2025, and the retiree welfare benefit plan, which held $1.1 billion in assets. Positive investment returns in fiscal year 2025 improved the funded status of both plans. The organization's scale, independence, and long-term orientation position it as a significant institutional investor with the capacity to pursue opportunities across public and private markets, developed and emerging economies, and conventional and unconventional strategies.

Investment Mandate

MITIMCo's primary goal is generating high real rates of return without exceptional volatility through broad diversification across asset classes, geographies, and strategies. The investment policy favors equity investments over fixed-income instruments and is heavily weighted toward less efficient markets where active management can add value. MIT's primary investment pool is Pool A, which produced a 14.8 percent return in fiscal year 2025 as measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year-end. Pooled investment income and gains are distributed for spending to support MIT's operations in a manner that preserves the long-term purchasing power of the endowment. The effective spending rate on pooled investment funds was 5.0 percent to start fiscal year 2025, or 4.9 percent on a three-year-average basis, balancing current operational needs with intergenerational equity.

MITIMCo pursues a global investment mandate with no geographic restrictions, seeking opportunities in developed and emerging markets across public equity, fixed income, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and hedge fund strategies. The organization's approach emphasizes unconventional opportunities and early-stage partnerships with investment firms. MITIMCo partners with firms from Day One of their operations and sometimes serves as their sole external partner, providing patient capital and long-term support. The emerging manager program formalizes this approach for firms with five million dollars or less of assets under management, portfolio managers with limited experience, and non-institutional firms. This program reflects MITIMCo's willingness to accept operational and organizational risk in exchange for access to exceptional investment talent and strategies not yet available through established institutional channels.

Decision authority for manager selection, direct investments, and asset allocation resides with MITIMCo's Board of Directors, which holds four regularly scheduled meetings during the fiscal year to review investment policy, performance, and strategic direction. The board's oversight ensures that investment decisions align with MIT's long-term mission and risk tolerance while maintaining the flexibility to pursue opportunities as they arise. MITIMCo does not disclose target allocation percentages or ranges, reflecting the organization's opportunistic approach and willingness to shift capital across strategies and markets as conditions warrant. The investment approach prioritizes long-term real returns over short-term performance benchmarks, consistent with the endowment's perpetual time horizon and MIT's commitment to supporting future generations of students and researchers.

Financial Position

The endowment excluding pledges stood at $27.366 billion at June 30, 2025, up from $24.573 billion at June 30, 2024. Total endowment funds including pledges were $27.528 billion. The endowment excluding pledges was $23.453 billion at June 30, 2023, $24.601 billion at June 30, 2022, and $27.394 billion at June 30, 2021.

Pool A, MIT's primary investment pool, produced a 14.8 percent return in fiscal 2025, measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year-end. Total investments at fair value were $35.790 billion at June 30, 2025, and the net return on total investments was $4.299 billion in fiscal 2025. Total net assets were $37.7 billion at June 30, 2025; that broader figure is not used as the endowment series.

DEEP Disclosure Rating

The DEEP Disclosure Rating measures how much a fund discloses about itself. It is a disclosure and governance measure only, and not a judgment of investment quality or creditworthiness.

The MIT Investment Management Company's DEEP Disclosure Score is 42 of 100, band Limited. Last assessed October 2026.

Items that cannot apply to a fund's type are excluded from its score rather than scored as zero. The fund-specific basis is included in the DEEP Disclosure Report. A detailed, pillar-by-pillar and item-by-item breakdown of this fund's score is available as a DEEP Disclosure Report on request.

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Manager Approach and Matching Profile

Pursuit verdict: External fund managers, including early-stage firms that fit MITIMCo's emerging manager program, should pursue this allocator. Managers who need a published RFP calendar, mandate benchmarks or fees, or a named manager roster should not expect a public route in.

• Target vs. actual allocation: Target allocation percentages are not disclosed. Actual total investments at fair value by category at June 30, 2025 are shown in the mandate table; that basis is total investments, not endowment only.
• Historical AUM and return series: The series below is the endowment excluding pledges at each June 30. The only period return disclosed in the sources used is the fiscal 2025 Pool A return.

  Period	AUM	Return
  June 30, 2021	$27.394 billion	Not publicly disclosed
  June 30, 2022	$24.601 billion	Not publicly disclosed
  June 30, 2023	$23.453 billion	Not publicly disclosed
  June 30, 2024	$24.573 billion	Not publicly disclosed
  June 30, 2025	$27.366 billion	14.8% (Pool A, fiscal 2025)

  

  Pool A return measured using valuations received within one month of fiscal year-end. Source: Report of the Treasurer FY2025, published October 10, 2025.

  Item	Value
  FY2025 Pool A	14.8%

• External manager roster and consultant detail: MIT primarily invests through external fund managers but does not publish individual manager names, mandate benchmarks, or fees, and does not name an investment consultant of record. Amounts are total investment categories at June 30, 2025.

  Mandate	Benchmark or strategy	AUM	Manager	Fee or expense
  Private equity	Not publicly disclosed	$12.7 billion	External fund managers selected by MITIMCo; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed
  Absolute return	Not publicly disclosed	$5.7 billion	External fund managers selected by MITIMCo; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed
  Real estate	Not publicly disclosed	$4.4 billion	MITIMCo Cambridge Real Estate and external managers; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed
  Foreign equity (commingled vehicles)	Not publicly disclosed	$2.9 billion	External fund managers selected by MITIMCo; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed
  Domestic equity (commingled vehicles)	Not publicly disclosed	$2.3 billion	External fund managers selected by MITIMCo; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed
  Real assets	Not publicly disclosed	$267.5 million	External fund managers selected by MITIMCo; individual managers not publicly disclosed	Not publicly disclosed

• Commitment pacing: MIT does not disclose private-market commitment pacing or a capital deployment schedule.
• RFP, procurement, and board calendar: No investment consultant of record, procurement portal, or RFP calendar is published. MITIMCo's Board of Directors holds four regularly scheduled meetings during the fiscal year to review investment policy, performance, and asset allocation; specific dates and materials are not disclosed. The emerging manager program is the published route for smaller firms.

Matching profile: these data points feed the cross-fund manager matching profile.

Sources: Report of the Treasurer for the year ended June 30, 2025; MITIMCo website.

Governance and Leadership

MITIMCo's Board of Directors holds decision authority for manager selection, direct investments, and asset allocation, with four regularly scheduled meetings during the fiscal year to review investment policy, performance, and strategic direction. The board's oversight ensures that investment decisions align with MIT's long-term mission and risk tolerance while maintaining the flexibility to pursue opportunities as conditions warrant. The MIT Corporation oversees the Institute, and the Executive Vice President and Treasurer reports to the Corporation and serves as the senior financial officer. MITIMCo operates three teams: Global Investment Staff, which pursues public and private investment opportunities worldwide; Cambridge Real Estate, which manages commercial real estate around the MIT campus; and Operations, which handles infrastructure, reporting, and compliance functions. The organization employs more than 80 professionals across these teams.

Named leaders include Glen Shor, Executive Vice President and Treasurer of MIT, who serves as the senior financial officer and reports to the MIT Corporation. Sally Kornbluth serves as President of MIT. Mark P. Gorenberg serves as Chair of the MIT Corporation. MITIMCo's board members and senior investment staff, including any Chief Investment Officer or managing directors, are not named in the sources provided. The Report of the Treasurer and MITIMCo website describe the organization's structure and teams but do not list individual board members or senior investment staff by name.

• Glen Shor: Executive Vice President and Treasurer of MIT
• Sally Kornbluth: President of MIT
• Mark P. Gorenberg: Chair of the MIT Corporation

How to Engage

MITIMCo partners with investment firms early in their development and primarily invests through external fund managers. Its emerging manager program covers firms with $5 million or less of assets under management, portfolio managers with limited experience, and non-institutional firms. No formal RFP process, procurement portal, investment consultant of record, or board meeting calendar is published.

Established managers approach MITIMCo through direct partnership discussions. MITIMCo's Board of Directors holds four regularly scheduled meetings during the fiscal year; specific dates and materials are not disclosed.

Sources and Documents

• MITIMCo website
• MITIMCo Team page
• MITIMCo Impact page
• MITIMCo Our Approach page
• MITIMCo Publications page
• Report of the Treasurer for the year ended June 30, 2025 (published October 10, 2025)

Data Notes and Methodology

This profile is based on MIT's Report of the Treasurer for the year ended June 30, 2025 (published October 10, 2025) and materials on the MITIMCo website, assessed as of October 1, 2026. All figures are in United States dollars.

The profile AUM is the endowment excluding pledges, $27.366 billion at June 30, 2025. Total endowment funds including pledges were $27.528 billion, and total investments at fair value were $35.790 billion; neither broader figure is used as the endowment AUM series. Mandate amounts are total investment categories from Table 5 of the Treasurer's report, not endowment-only allocations. Individual external managers, mandate-level benchmarks, and fees are not publicly disclosed.