Remember that this was $9.2 million in 1896, accounting for 17% of Sweden's annual fiscal revenue at that time. The Foundation will distribute the Nobel Prize winners with the interest of $920 every year, and each first winner will receive a prize of150,000 Swedish francs, which is equivalent to the professor's salary for 20 years at that time.
The foundation has been using this money to buy safe and stable national bonds or time deposits. By 1953, the funds on the books were less than $3 million. At this time, the Swedish National Bank provided a large donation to the Foundation, and Sweden and the United States also escorted the Foundation, allowing it to safely enter the high-return stock market. With the help of the government, the bonus of the foundation has now exceeded 4 billion Swedish francs.