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As the sibling comment points out, assuming Wikipedia's endowment sees 5% returns, it needs to be $54 million just to cover Wikipedia's hosting expenses. That doesn't cover any other Wikipedia/Wikimedia expenses like their full time staff or other OpEx.

If the endowment gets less than 5% returns it needs to be that much larger to cover expenses.



Yeah, and they already have a lot more than 54M in the bank


Per this page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Endowment the Endowment at the Tides Foundation held over $113 million in January of this year. That is the latest data available.

The Wikimedia Foundation itself reported assets of $239 million in addition to that, as of June this year:

https://foundation.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AWi...




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