| Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
World Health Organization Polio Eradication Initiative (New York) |
$80,000,000 |
| William and Flora Hewlett Foundation |
ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) |
50,000,000 |
| David and Lucile Packard Foundation |
ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) |
46,757,800 |
| Robert W. Woodruff Foundation |
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta) |
30,500,015 |
| Broad Foundations |
Broad Institute (Cambridge, Mass.) |
20,000,000 |
| Ford Foundation |
International Fellowships Fund (New York) |
15,000,000 |
| Novo Foundation |
Nike Foundation (Beaverton, Ore.) |
15,000,000 |
| McKnight Foundation |
ClimateWorks Foundation (San Francisco) |
13,001,097 |
| Amon G. Carter Foundation |
Amon Carter Museum (Fort Worth) |
10,450,125 |
| Howard G. Buffett Foundation |
Catholic Relief Services (Baltimore) |
10,034,250 |
| Annenberg Foundation |
Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) |
10,000,000 |
| Duke Endowment |
Duke University (Durham, N.C.) |
10,000,000 |
| W.K. Kellogg Foundation |
California State Polytechnic University at Pomona |
10,000,000 |
| Rockefeller Foundation |
Brookings Institution (Washington) |
10,000,000 |
| Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation |
Kauffman Scholars (Kansas City, Mo.) |
7,700,000 |
| Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation |
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (New York) |
7,055,000 |
| Bush Foundation |
Twin Cities Teacher Collaborative |
7,000,000 |
| Charles Stewart Mott Foundation |
Foundation for the Uptown Reinvestment Corporation (Flint, Mich.) |
7,000,000 |
| Blandin Foundation |
Conservation Fund (Arlington, Va.) |
6,900,000 |
| Irene Diamond Fund |
Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center for the City of New York |
6,886,953 |
| T.L.L. Temple Foundation |
Memorial Medical Center of East Texas (Lufkin) |
6,600,000 |
| Heinz Endowments |
Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) |
6,500,000 |
| Carnegie Corporation of New York |
Public Interest Projects (New York) |
6,000,000 |
| James Irvine Foundation |
California Forward (Sacramento) |
6,000,000 |
| Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services (Washington) |
5,773,311 |
| John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
Queens University of Charlotte (N.C.) |
5,750,000 |
| Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust |
Translational Genomics Research Institute (Phoenix) |
5,697,609 |
| Kansas Health Foundation |
Kansas Leadership Center (Wichita) |
5,086,368 |
| Laura and John Arnold Foundation |
Teach for America (New York) |
5,000,000 |
| Houston Endowment |
University of Houston |
5,000,000 |
| Kresge Foundation |
Regional Area Initial Link (M-1 RAIL) (Detroit) |
5,000,000 |
| Edna McConnell Clark Foundation |
Harlem Children's Zone (New York) |
5,000,000 |
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| Note: Table shows the largest payment made by each foundation during the 2010 fiscal year. |
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