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#	Company	Founded
1	College of William & Mary	1693
2	Yale College	1701
3	Broadwood and Sons	1732
4	Moravian University	1742
5	University of Delaware	1743
6	Columbia College	1754
7	Christie's	1766
8	Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons	1767
9	College of Charleston	1770
10	Bank of North America	1781
11	Phillips Exeter Academy	1781
12	Bank of America	1784
13	University of Vermont	1791
14	Bowdoin College	1794
15	University of Tennessee	1794
16	ABCorp	1795
17	University of Louisville	1798
18	Ohio University	1804
19	Colgate-Palmolive Company	1806
20	Wiley	1807
21	Miami University	1809
22	Warner Chappell Music	1811
23	Colby College	1813
24	Black Ball Line	1817
25	Harper	1817
26	Brooks Brothers	1818
27	Bunge Limited	1818
28	Centre College	1819
29	University of Virginia School of Law	1819
30	Indiana University Bloomington	1820
31	George Washington University	1821
32	Thomas Jefferson University	1824
33	KeyBank	1825
34	Furman University	1826
35	Lafayette College	1826
36	Baltimore and Ohio Railroad	1827
37	University of North Alabama	1830
38	University of Richmond	1830
39	William Cramp & Sons	1830
40	New York University	1831
41	University of Alabama	1831
42	C. F. Martin & Company	1833
43	Currier and Ives	1835
44	Mobile County Public School System	1836
45	DePauw University	1837
46	Hachette Book Group	1837
47	Invicta Watch Group	1837
48	Little, Brown and Company	1837
49	Berkshire Hathaway	1839
50	Dodd, Mead & Co.	1839
51	Framingham State University	1839
52	Brook Farm	1841
53	Dun & Bradstreet	1841
54	Fordham University	1841
55	Punahou School	1841
56	The Citadel	1842
57	College of the Holy Cross	1843
58	Stanley Black & Decker	1843
59	State University of New York at Albany	1844
60	Baylor University	1845
61	Brunswick Corporation	1845
62	Lycoming	1845
63	A. T. Cross Company	1846
64	Beloit College	1846
65	Bucknell University	1846
66	Carroll University	1846
67	Charles Scribner's Sons	1846
68	Grinnell College	1846
69	Lawrence University	1847
70	University of Wisconsin System	1848
71	University of Wisconsin–Madison	1848
72	Comerica	1849
73	Fort Bliss	1849
74	Union Iron Works	1849
75	American Express	1850
76	Antioch College	1850
77	Lehman Brothers	1850
78	U.S. Bancorp	1850
79	University of Dayton	1850
80	University of Rochester	1850
81	Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania	1850
82	Illinois Central Railroad	1851
83	Northwestern University	1851
84	Anheuser-Busch	1852
85	Studebaker	1852
86	California Academy of Sciences	1853
87	Levi Strauss & Co.	1853
88	Otis Worldwide Corporation	1853
89	Lincoln University	1854
90	Timex Group USA	1854
91	University of Evansville	1854
92	Bates College	1855
93	Berea College	1855
94	Colt's Manufacturing Company	1855
95	The College of New Jersey	1855
96	Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad	1856
97	M&T Bank	1856
98	Gallaudet University	1857
99	Illinois State University	1857
100	Peabody Institute	1857

Top 100 entries with a recorded value; entries without data are not ranked.