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February 10, 2013

Gifts of $1-Million or More in 2012, by Cause

Cause Donor Recipient Organization Gift Amount
Sports and Recreation Thomas Golisano Special Olympics (Washington) $12,000,000
Sports and Recreation Joshua Rechnitz New York City Fieldhouse (Brooklyn, N.Y.) $50,000,000
Sports and Recreation John and Jenny Paulson Central Park Conservancy (New York) $100,000,000
Sports and Recreation Brooke Russell Astor Central Park Conservancy (New York) $1,000,000
Schools Patrick and Tandra Cadigan Boston College High School $12,000,000
Schools Ethel Strong Allen Hackley School (Tarrytown, N.Y.) $49,268,000
Schools David Koch Allen-Stevenson School (New York) $5,000,000
Schools Sheldon and Miriam Adelson Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational institute (Las Vegas) $50,000,000
Museums and Libraries Vance Kondon and Elisabeth Giesberger Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and San Diego Museum of Art $45,000,000
Museums and Libraries Brooke Russell Astor Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) $20,000,000
Museums and Libraries Brooke Russell Astor New York Public Library $15,000,000
Museums and Libraries David Koch Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) $65,000,000
Museums and Libraries David Koch National Museum of Natural History (Washington) $35,000,000
Museums and Libraries Fred Fields Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland) $2,000,000
Museums and Libraries Fred Fields Portland Art Museum (Ore.) $1,000,000
Museums and Libraries Fred Fields Columbia River Maritime Museum (Astoria, Ore.) $1,000,000
Museums and Libraries Paul Allen Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum (Seattle) $8,000,000
Museums and Libraries Brooke Russell Astor Morgan Library & Museum (New York) $1,500,000
Medical Research, Science Paul Allen Allen Institute for Brain Science (Seattle) $300,000,000
Medical Research Lawrence Ellison Ellison Medical Foundation (New York) $45,632,000
Medical Research Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (New York) $32,773,333
Human-Service Groups Stephen Bing Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) $30,000,000
Human-Service Groups Jeffrey Katzenberg Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) $30,000,000
Human-Service Groups Steven Spielberg Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) $30,000,000
Human-Service Groups David Geffen Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) $30,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers David Koch Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York) $10,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Thomas Golisano Children's Hospital of Southwest Florida (Fort Myers ) $20,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Fred Fields Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) $1,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Baptist Health Foundation (Jacksonville, Fla.) $10,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers, Medical Research David Rubenstein Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York) $10,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Ronald Perelman Barbara Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) $1,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Darlene Marcos Shiley Scripps Health (San Diego) $5,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Herbert and Florence Irving NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York) $20,000,000
Hospitals and Medical Centers Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, Mass.) $1,000,000
Historic Preservation David Rubenstein Trust for the National Mall (Washington) $7,500,000
Historic Preservation Fred Fields Oregon Historical Society (Portland) $2,000,000
Historic Preservation Brooke Russell Astor Historic Hudson Valley (Tarrytown, N.Y.) $1,200,000
Health Charities Fred Fields Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington (Portland) $1,000,000
Health Charities Sheldon and Miriam Adelson Hebrew SeniorLife (Boston) $3,000,000
Health Charities Sheldon and Miriam Adelson Chelsea Jewish Foundation (Mass.) $1,000,000
Foundations Warren Buffett NoVo Foundation (New York)
$1,027,773,653
Foundations Warren Buffett Sherwood Foundation (Omaha) $1,027,773,653
Foundations Warren Buffett Howard G. Buffett Foundation (Decatur, Ill.)
$1,027,773,653
Foundations Eli and Edythe Broad Broad Foundations (Los Angeles)
$101,500,000
Foundations Joshua Rechnitz Powerhouse Environmental Art Foundation (New York)
$7,000,000
Foundations Sheldon and Miriam Adelson Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation (Needham, Mass.)
$67,000,000
Foundations Jon Stryker Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.) $30,092,787
Foundations Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki Brin Wojcicki Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.)
$190,126,667
Foundations John and Laura Arnold Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Houston)
$251,253,364
Community Foundations Brooke Russell Astor New York Community Trust $42,000,000
Community Foundations Fred Fields Oregon Community Foundation (Portland) $166,000,000
Community Foundations Garthe and Grace Brown Oregon Community Foundation (Portland) $43,137,000
Community Foundations David Gundlach Elkhart County Community Foundation (Ind.) $140,000,000
Community Foundations Mary Porter Community Foundation of Broward (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) $43,900,000
Community Foundations Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver Community Foundation in Jacksonville (Fla.) $73,700,000
Community Foundations Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Silicon Valley Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.) $498,780,000
Colleges and Universities Alan McKim Northeastern University (Boston)
$30,000,000
Colleges and Universities Brooke Russell Astor Rockefeller University (New York)
$2,640,000
Colleges and Universities Brooke Russell Astor New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development $2,000,000
Colleges and Universities Carl Icahn Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York)
$150,000,000
Colleges and Universities Darlene Marcos Shiley University of San Diego $20,000,000
Colleges and Universities Darlene Marcos Shiley California State University at San Marcos $1,200,000
Colleges and Universities David Koch Technology Children's Centers at Vassar Street (Cambridge, Mass.)
$20,000,000
Colleges and Universities David Koch Columbia University (New York)
$1,000,000
Colleges and Universities David Rubenstein Duke University (Durham, N.C.) $15,000,000
Colleges and Universities David Rubenstein Duke University (Durham, N.C.) $10,000,000
Colleges and Universities Ernest Scheller Jr. and Roberta Scheller Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta)
$50,000,000
Colleges and Universities Eugene Lang Swarthmore College (Pa.)
$50,000,000
Colleges and Universities Fred Fields Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Ore.)
$10,000,000
Colleges and Universities Fred Fields Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland)
$2,000,000
Colleges and Universities Fred Fields University of Oregon (Eugene) $2,000,000
Colleges and Universities Fred Fields Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.)
$2,000,000
Colleges and Universities Fred Fields Lake Erie College (Painesville, Ohio)
$1,000,000
Colleges and Universities George Roberts Claremont McKenna College (Calif.) $50,000,000
Colleges and Universities Helen Gurley Brown Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (New York)
$18,000,000
Colleges and Universities Helen Gurley Brown Stanford School of Engineering (Calif.)
$12,000,000
Colleges and Universities Herbert and Florence Irving Columbia University Medical Center (New York)
$40,000,000
Colleges and Universities James Spilker Jr. and Anna Marie Spilker Stanford School of Engineering (Calif.)
$28,000,000
Colleges and Universities Jeff and Judy Henley University of California at Santa Barbara $50,000,000
Colleges and Universities Jonathan and Karin Fielding University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health $50,000,000
Colleges and Universities Joseph and Kathy O'Donnell Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.)
$30,000,000
Colleges and Universities Leon and Debra Black Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) $48,000,000
Colleges and Universities Mica Ertegun University of Oxford (England)
$41,000,000
Colleges and Universities Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman University of Oxford (England)
$116,360,000
Colleges and Universities Michael and Marilyn Quinlan Loyola University Chicago Michael R. Quinlan School of Business $40,000,000
Colleges and Universities Mortimer Zuckerman Columbia University (New York)
$200,000,000
Colleges and Universities Patrick and Tandra Cadigan Boston College $15,000,000
Colleges and Universities Philip and Penelope Knight Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland)
$125,000,000
Colleges and Universities Richard D'Amore Northeastern University (Boston)
$30,000,000
Colleges and Universities Richard Driehaus DePaul University (Chicago)
$30,000,000
Colleges and Universities Ronald Perelman University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) $25,000,000
Colleges and Universities Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer University of Southern California (Los Angeles) $25,000,000
Colleges and Universities Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer Princeton University (N.J.) $1,000,000
Arts Groups David Koch New York City Opera $1,000,000
Arts Groups Ronald Perelman Apollo Theater Foundation (New York)
$1,000,000

 

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