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This is a list of wealthiest charitable foundations worldwide. It consists of the 50 largest charitable foundations, private foundations engaged in philanthropy, and other charitable organizations such as charitable trusts that have disclosed their assets. In many countries, asset disclosure is not legally required or made public.
Wallace Rasmussen – American philanthropist and proponent of higher education; Warren Buffett – pledged US$30.7 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Werner Reinhart – industrialist, philanthropist, music and literature patron
As of April 2011, 69 billionaires had joined the campaign and given a pledge, [7] and by the following year, The Huffington Post reported that a total of 81 billionaires had pledged. [8] By May 2017, 158 individuals and/or couples were listed as pledgers. [4] [9] [needs update] Not all pledgers are billionaires.
Billionaire author and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott acknowledged another $2 billion in donations in a blog post on Wednesday, bringing the total she’s given away since 2019 to $19.2 billion.
Fellow billionaire philanthropist Warren Buffett, CEO of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A) (NYSE: BRK.B), has joined Gates in his vow to donate the vast majority of his assets to charity. Buffett ...
Billionaire philanthropist Tom Golisano has pledged a $360 million donation to 82 non-profit organizations across upstate New York. The announcement, made at the Golisano Institute for Business ...
Robert Frederick Smith (born December 1, 1962) is an American billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman, and CEO of private equity firm Vista Equity Partners . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] He graduated from Cornell University with a chemical engineering degree and from Columbia Business School with an MBA, before working as an ...
George Bruce Kaiser (born July 29, 1942) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the chairman of BOK Financial Corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As of September 2021, he is the 476th richest person in the world [1] and was, in 2012, one of the top 50 American philanthropists. [3]