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In many countries, asset disclosure is not legally required or made public. Only nonprofit foundations are included in this list. Organizations that are part of a larger company are excluded, such as holding companies. The entries are ordered by the size of the organization's financial endowment. [1]
Eli Broad (/ b r oʊ d / BROHD; [1] June 6, 1933 – April 30, 2021) was an American businessman and philanthropist. In June 2019, Forbes ranked him as the 233rd-wealthiest person in the world [2] and the 78th-wealthiest in the United States, with an estimated net worth of $6.7 billion. [3]
You don't give away that much money without changing the places and institutions and people you give it to, sometimes for the worse. Zuckerberg should already know this. In 2010, he donated $100 million to the Newark Public Schools on a promise from Cory Booker that he could, according to Dale Russakoff's The Prize , "flip a whole city."
Julius Rosenwald – part-owner and leader of Sears, Roebuck, constructed over 5,000 schools for African American students during the Jim Crow era, and established the Rosenwald Fund, which donated millions of dollars in funds to African American causes
The most generous among America's richest billionaires give away more than 10% of their fortunes. Some of them are doing their best to give away all of it — or at least as much as they can while...
That openness to working with the government marks another difference between Asian philanthropy and giving in, say, the U.S. In Asia, “people want to work aligned with, at the minimum, with the ...
The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes.
Walton used $5,000 of his own savings and a $20,000 loan to become the richest man in the country in the 1980s. Alice Walton, the daughter of the founder, now has a net worth of $72.3 billion . 6.