Amount                      Donor                                                  Purpose or beneficiary                          

$747-million

Haas family, heirs to the Rohm & Haas Company fortune

To the William Penn Foundation (Philadelphia) for programs to benefit Philadelphia causes

$705-million

Stanley Druckenmiller, founder of Duquesne Capital Management, and his wife, Fiona

To the Druckenmiller Foundation (New York) for medical research, education, and antipoverty programs

$350-million

William H. (Bill) III Gates, a co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation, and his wife, Melinda

To the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle) for a new building

$125-million (pledge)

Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and founder of Bloomberg LP

To the Association for Safe International Road Travel (Potomac, Md.), Global Road Safety Partnership (Washington), the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore), World Bank Global Road Safety Facility (Washington), World Health Organization (Washington), and World Resources Institute Center for Sustainable Transport (Washington), for an international program to reduce deaths from automobile accidents 

$100-million

George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management

To the Fund for Policy Reform (New York) to support the Climate Policy Initiative (San Francisco)

$100-million (pledge)

William P. Clements Jr., founder of Sedco

To the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Foundation (Dallas)

$100-million (pledge)

J. Ronald Terwilliger, chairman of Trammell Crow Residential

To Habitat for Humanity International (Americus, Ga.) for endowment and microloans for needy people

$85-million

Louise Dieterle Nippert, an owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team

To the Greenacres Foundation to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, the Cincinnati Ballet, the Cincinnati Opera, and other arts groups

$65-million (pledge)

Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of Abraxis BioScience, and his wife, Michele B. Chan

To Saint John's Health Center (Santa Monica, Calif.) for medical research

$50-million (pledge)

Caroline Amplatz, a businesswoman

To the Minnesota Medical Foundation (Minneapolis) for a new children's hospital

$50-million (pledge)

John W. Jackson, a retired chief executive of the Celgene Corporation, and his wife, Susan

To Yale University (New Haven, Conn.) 

$50-million (pledge)

Pierre Omidyar, founder of eBay, and his wife, Pam

To the Hawaii Community Foundation (Honolulu)

$50-million (pledge)

George Soros, chairman of Soros Fund Management

To Central European University (Budapest) to establish an economics institute

$50-million (pledge)

Ronald P. Stanton, founder of Transammonia

To NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital for a program for cancer patients

$40-million (pledge)

Thomas F. Steyer, founder of Farallon Capital Management, and his wife, Kat Taylor

To Stanford University (Calif.) to establish a center for sustainable energy

$35-million (pledge)

Mark W. Yusko, founder of Morgan Creek Capital Management, and his wife, Stacey

To the University of Notre Dame (Ind.) for scholarships

Note: Does not include gifts of artwork or other noncash donations or gifts from anonymous donors. Unless otherwise noted, the donor did not place any restrictions on how the money was to be used.