overfund

Give too much

To overfund is to provide more money than needed or appropriate for a particular purpose.

A retirement account can be overfunded beyond tax-advantaged limits.

A project might be overfunded while others starve for resources: The department overfunded administrative costs at the expense of direct services.

The noun overfunding describes this excess allocation.

investment

venture capital

Startup growth financing

allocation · portfolio · pro rata · syndicate · hot deal · deployment · dry powder · overallocation · term sheet · closing

budgetary

surplus

Amount exceeding requirement

department · reallocation · spending · government · grant · endowment · reserve · discretionary · audit · carryover

pension

surplus

Amount exceeding requirement

retirement · fiduciary · reversion · excise tax · contribution · employer contribution · annuity · tax penalty

crowdfunding

stretch goal

Ambitious secondary objective

pledge · Indiegogo · viral · creator · milestone · community support · crowdfunded

Opposites
funding level

overfundunderfund

Provide insufficient monetary support

defund · shortchange · undercapitalize · scrimp

Family

overfunded, overfunding

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