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CAFOD; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Campaign for Liberty; The Canadian International Learning Foundation; Cancer Research UK; CanTeen; Cardiac Risk in the Young
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.
Name Country Social venture founded Focus areas Qais Al Khonji: Oman: Founder of Genesis projects and investments Vinoba Bhave: India: Founder and leader of the Bhoodan movement, he caused the redistribution of more than 7,000,000 acres (2,800,000 ha) of land to aid India's untouchables and landless.
Madonna – founder of Ray of Light Foundation (1998), and Raising Malawi (2006), have donated to and advocated for numerous organizations and causes; Mahesh Babu – actor, humanitarian and philanthropist; he runs a charitable trust and non-profit organisation, Heal-a-Child. He is also associated with Rainbow Hospitals as their goodwill ...
Scott Harrison (charity founder) William Hawes (physician) Amanda Hearst; Graham Henderson (cultural entrepreneur) Julie Montagu, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke; Fred Hollows; Matthew Hood; Jane Hurlstone
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [7] [8] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Nonprofit organizations are accountable to the donors, founders, volunteers, program recipients, and the public community. Theoretically, for a nonprofit that seeks to finance its operations through donations, public confidence is a factor in the amount of money that a nonprofit organization is able to raise.
For example, the reactionary, anti-Catholic, anti-black Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a frequent target of ACLU efforts, but the ACLU defended the KKK's right to hold meetings in 1923. [18] There were some civil rights that the ACLU did not make an effort to defend in the 1920s, including censorship of the arts, government search and seizure issues ...