This isanexus of private-equity and hedgefunds, money-market funds andauction-ratesecurities, non-bankssuch as GECapital and new securities such as CDOsandcredit-default swaps.
According to George Overholser of Non-Profit Finance Fund Capital Partners, who helped to raise the money, this is only the first of many private placements of donor capital for non-profits.
No doubt there is one, but this isn't due to money being too expensive as much as it's the result of capital flowing to non-productive, hard assets that tend to perform best when money is losing value.
This includes money given to the Charter School Growth Fund, a non-profit venture capital fund, to which another billionaire, Gap co-founder Doris Fisher, has also contributed.