qnli question: What was the size of the Notre Dame endowment when Theodore Hesburgh became president? sentence: In that time the annual operating budget rose by a factor of 18 from $9.7 million to $176.6 million, and the endowment by a factor of 40 from $9 million to $350 million, and research funding by a factor of 20 from $735,000 to $15 million.