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New York City: $4.2 billion 2004 [18] 39 Carnegie Corporation of New York United States: New York City: $4.1 billion 1911 [2] 40 Mother Cabrini Health Foundation United States: New York City: $4 billion 2018 [40] 41 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Portugal: Lisbon: $4.0 billion €3.72 billion 1956 [41] 42 Volkswagen Stiftung Germany: Hannover ...
David Koch – founder of the David H. Koch Charitable Foundation; listed by The Chronicle of Philanthropy as one of the world's top 50 philanthropists in 2013 [19] Demi Lovato – provides the Lovato Treatment Scholarship; supporter of 13 different charity organization; an official Ambassador for the youth empowerment event We Day and the ...
The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled more than $3.5 billion in 2023. Four universities received big gifts ...
Michael Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, gave the most to charitable causes last year, followed by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, and Michael Dell and his wife, Susan ...
Another cause that got outsize attention from billionaire philanthropists: Climate change. Jeff Bezos topped the list by donating $10 billion to launch the Bezos Earth Fund. Bezos and Bloomberg ...
The Washington Post reported the commitment was “roughly equal to all philanthropic giving for marine protected areas and habitat protection over the past decade.” [47] In April 2023, Bloomberg Philanthropies pledged $50 million to support “The New York Climate Exchange” (“The Exchange”) on Governors Island in New York City. The ...
A list of the most significant U.S. living donors of the last 15 years; A Hall of Fame of great historic donors; Descriptive entries on more than 900 major achievements in American philanthropy from 1636 to 2015, organized by sectors; Brief sketches of philanthropic literature, classic and recent, divided into themes
The couple made the list of America's Top 50 Donors of 2020 as well according to Philanthropy 50, [3] an annual ranking compiled by The Chronicle of Philanthropy. They ranked #27 for giving $59 million. [4] The couple are the world’s top investors in clean water projects in Africa.