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Donor and source of wealth
Donated or pledged
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Margaret A. Cargill
Family wealth $6-billion (bequest) Beneficiaries: Margaret A. Cargill Foundation (Eden Prairie, Minn.); Anne Ray Charitable Trust (Eden Prairie, Minn.) |
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William S. Dietrich II
Manufacturing $500-million (bequest) Beneficiary: Dietrich Foundation (Pittsburgh) |
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Paul G. Allen
Technology $372.6-million Beneficiaries: Paul G. Allen Family Foundation (Seattle); Allen Institute for Brain Science (Seattle) and other groups |
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George Soros
Finance $335-million Beneficiary: Open Society Foundations (New York) |
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Michael R. Bloomberg
Media and entertainment $311.3-million Beneficiaries: 1,185 arts, human-services, public-affairs, and other groups |
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Raymond G. and Ruth C. Perelman
Finance, investments $227.3-million Beneficiaries: University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) and other groups |
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David and Dana Dornsife
Manufacturing $200-million Beneficiary: University of Southern California (Los Angeles) |
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Robert E. and Dorothy J. King
Finance $166.5-million Beneficiaries: Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Calif.) and other groups |
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Arthur G. and Margaret B. Glasgow
Engineering $125-million (bequest) Beneficiaries: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond); Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond) and other groups |
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$110-million Beneficiary: University of Southern California (Los Angeles) |
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John D. and Laura Arnold
Finance $101-million Beneficiaries: Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Houston) and other groups |
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Richard O. Jacobson
Industry $100-million Beneficiary: Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) |
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Jack C. Taylor
Retail $99.8-million Beneficiaries: Crawford Taylor Foundation (St. Louis); Washington University in St. Louis and other groups |
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Porter B. Byrum
Law, real estate $81.8-million Beneficiaries: Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, N.C.); Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.); Wingate University (N.C.) |
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John E. and Marion Anderson
Finance $80-million Beneficiaries: Children's Hospital Los Angeles; University of California at Los Angeles, John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management |
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Eric F. Ross
Chemicals, manufacturing $76.5-million (bequest) Beneficiaries: American Associates, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (New York); Saint Barnabas Medical Center Foundation (West Orange, N.J.) and other groups |
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H.F. (Gerry) and Marguerite B. Lenfest
Media and entertainment $75-million Beneficiaries: American Revolution Center (Wayne, Pa.); Columbia University (New York) and other groups |
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Pierre and Pam Omidyar
Technology $74.5-million Beneficiaries: HopeLab (Redwood City, Calif.), Omidyar Network (Redwood City, Calif.), Humanity United (Redwood City, Calif.) and other groups |
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A. Alfred Taubman
Real estate $67-million Beneficiaries: University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Lawrence Technological University (Southfield, Mich.) |
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David M. Rubenstein
Finance $66.2-million Beneficiaries: Duke University Libraries (Durham, N.C.); Foundation for the National Archives (Washington , D.C.); John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington) and other groups |
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$65-million Beneficiary: Ohio State University (Columbus) |
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Irwin M. and Joan K. Jacobs
Telecommunications $64.9-million Beneficiaries: Joan and Irwin Jacobs Fund at the Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego; San Diego Public Library Foundation and other groups |
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William I. Koch
Energy, commodities $64.6-million Beneficiaries: Oxbridge Academy Foundation (West Palm Beach, Calif.) and other groups |
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Conrad T. Prebys
Construction, real estate $63.1-million Beneficiaries: Scripps Health (San Diego); Zoological Society of San Diego and other groups |
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Sergey M. Brin and Anne E. Wojcicki
Technology $61.9-million Beneficiary: Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (New York) |
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A.B. Hudson
Oil $60-million (bequest) Beneficiary: Shriners Hospitals for Children (Tampa, Fla.) |
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Lawrence J. Ellison
Technology $59.2-million Beneficiary: Ellison Medical Foundation (Bethesda, Md.) |
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John C. Malone
Media and entertainment $57-million Beneficiaries: Yale University School of Engineering & Applied Science (New Haven), DSST Public Schools (Denver) |
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Bruce and Martha Karsh
Finance $50-million Beneficiary: Duke University (Durham, N.C.) |
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Nina Ireland
Family wealth $48-million (bequest) Beneficiary: University of California at San Francisco |
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David C. and Joan R. Lincoln
Family wealth, real estate $44-million Beneficiaries: Claremont School of Theology (Calif.); John C. Lincoln Health Foundation (Phoenix) |
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Jon M. Huntsman Sr. and Karen H. Huntsman
Chemicals, manufacturing $42.2-million Beneficiaries: Huntsman Cancer Foundation (Salt Lake City) and other groups |
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Sidney and Lois Eskenazi
Real estate $40-million Beneficiary: Wishard Hospital Foundation (Indianapolis , Ind.) |
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Gustave M. and Rita E. Hauser
Telecommunications $40-million Beneficiary: Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) |
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$40-million Beneficiaries: Yale University (New Haven, Conn.); Center for the Next Generation (San Francisco) |
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Barbara Dodd Anderson
Family wealth, investments $35.2-million (bequest) Beneficiary: George School (Newtown, Pa.) |
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$35-million Beneficiaries: Yad Vashem Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority (Jerusalem); Birthright Israel Foundation (New York) |
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Phillip and Patrica Frost
Pharmaceuticals $35-million Beneficiary: Miami Science Museum (Fla.) |
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James C. Justice II and Cathy Justice
Energy, hotels $35-million Beneficiaries: Boy Scouts of America National Foundation (Irving, Tex.); Cleveland Clinic Foundation |
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Henry W. Bloch
Finance $32-million Beneficiary: University of Missouri at Kansas City Foundation |
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$32-million (bequest) Beneficiary: University of Kansas (Lawrence) |
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Robert G. and Charlee L. Moore
Food and beverage $31.4-million Beneficiaries: Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland) and other groups |
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Jon L. Stryker
Family wealth $30-million Beneficiary: Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.) |
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$30-million Beneficiaries: South Dakota Community Foundation (Pierre); Dakota Wesleyan University (Mitchell, S.D.) |
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Jorge M. Pérez
Real estate $30-million Beneficiary: Miami Art Museum |
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Robert L. Tidwell
Investments $30-million (bequest) Beneficiary: Children's Hospital of Orange County Foundation (Calif.) |
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Alan E. Lewis
Investments $29.4-million Beneficiary: Boston Foundation |
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James Wood Williamson
Invention, engineering $28.1-million (bequest) Beneficiaries: Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland) and other groups |
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Eli and Edythe L. Broad
Finance, real estate $27-million Beneficiary: Broad Foundations (Los Angeles) |
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Jack O. Bovender Jr. and Barbara Bovender
Health care $26-million Beneficiary: Duke University (Durham, N.C.) |
February 6, 2012
















































