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[14] [15] The new wing, called the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library and designed by Chicago-based architect Helmut Jahn, was completed in May 2011. [16] As of December 2010, Mansueto was the only Chicagoan on the list of American billionaires pledging to give away half of their wealth, [17] as part of The Giving Pledge started by Warren Buffett. [18]
The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust United States: New York City: $8.3 billion 1999 [31] 27 W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust United States: Battle Creek, Michigan: $8.2 billion 1930 [32] 28 Jacobs Foundation Switzerland: Zürich: $7.6 billion CHF7 billion 2001 [33] 29 Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung Germany: Bad Homburg: $7 billion
Griffin donated $21.5 million to the Field Museum of Natural History and its dinosaur exhibit is named the Griffin Dinosaur Experience. [55] In October 2019, Griffin's charitable fund announced a $125 million gift to the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, the largest gift in the museum's history. The museum was renamed the Kenneth C ...
His most passionate charitable causes — climate change and gun control — are as polarizing as he is, but he also donated $1 billion to tobacco cessation, $100 million to historically Black ...
Every year the billionaire donates stock from Berkshire Hathaway, which owns major companies like GEICO, Fruit of the Loom, and Dairy Queen. This year, his donation to five charities was worth a.
Zell donated $100,000 to Restore Our Future, the Super PAC supporting the Mitt Romney 2012 presidential campaign. [48] In 2015 he donated $50,000 to the John Bolton Super-PAC. [49] In 2019, he and his wife each donated $75,000 to the campaign of Mayor of Chicago Lori Lightfoot. [50]
In 2004 he donated over US$43 million to organizations around the world, making him the most generous person in music for that year, "a title he retains year after year." In 1997 he raised US$40 million for charity through sales of the single "Candle in the Wind 1997". He currently supports at least 57 charities. [21]
Nearly three years after an unexecuted land swap deal was signed between billionaire Justin Ishbia and the Winnetka Park District, a representative for Ishbia announced a $3 million donation will ...