They don't have the huge endowments or government funding.

The Getty Trust had a modest museum in Malibu and a huge endowment.

The Met was selling tickets, its huge endowment was swelled by the bubble of the late 1990's, and Mr. Levine was more of a presence than he is now.

Universities with long histories and huge endowments will generally do better on rankings that deem peer review most important, the provost added.

Financially, National Geographic also looked robust, with a huge endowment amassed from its accrued tax-exempt profits.

Many hospitals are linked to universities that have huge endowments to use as collateral for loans or to finance construction.

A major concern, she said, "is the gap between the colleges that are getting wealthier and wealthier, building huge endowments, and colleges like ours that have no such resources."

Some schools have huge endowments that help them generate the money they need to educate you (Harvard has more than $26 billion to count on).

Some of the premier arts organizations have huge endowments.

The foundation amassed a huge endowment by the 1990s, primarily by depositing federal and state reimbursements to the university for medical services performed at its hospitals.