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The Slate 60: Analysis of the Year's Biggest Philanthropists.
The 2007 Slate 60
The 60 Largest American Charitable Contributions of the Year
Compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University
Posted at Monday, Feb. 11, 2008 at 12:01 AM ET
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| Rank | Donor | Source of Wealth | Amount Donated/Pledged | Amount Paid | Payment recipients | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Leona Helmsley | Hotels, real estate | 4.0 billion | Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust | The majority of her assets, including cash from the sale of her homes and other property, was directed to this trust. | |
| 2 | Barron Hilton | Hotels | 1.2 billion | Conrad N. Hilton Foundation | A contribution of proceeds from the sale of Hilton Hotels Corporation and the pending sale of Harrah's Entertainment into a charitable remainder trust. | |
| 3 | Jon M. Huntsman, Karen Huntsman | Business | 627.0 million | Huntsman Cancer Foundation, Utah Department of Health, Utah State University | To begin an awareness campaign about HPV and provide low-cost vaccines to eligible women. | |
| 4 | T. Denny Sanford | Finance | 502.6 million | Burnham Institute for Medical Research, Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation, Other groups, San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, Sanford Foundation, Sioux Valley Hospital | Sioux Valley Hospital: Create 5 pediatric clinics around the country and link the clinics with research being done at a new Sioux Falls children's hospital. Sanford Health will also select and fund one major research project that's yet to be decided. Burnham Institute for Medical Research: Form a link between Sanford Health, with its new pediatric research goals, and a nationally recognized medical research firm. Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation: A matching grant to help finish the memorial. Sanford announced a contribution after publication that brings his total to $502.6 million | |
| 5 | George Soros | Finance | 474.6 million | Open Society Institute, Soros Humanitarian Foundation | ||
| 6 | John W. Kluge | Telecommunications | 400.0 million | Columbia University | Half would go to scholarships for undergrads at Columbia College and the other half to scholarships and fellowships in other parts of the university. | |
| 7 | Sanford I. Weill, Joan Weill | Finance | 328.5 million | Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation, Carnegie Hall, Cornell University, Other groups, Weill Cornell Medical College | For its capital campaign -- "Discoveries That Make a Difference"; to help fund its New Life Sciences Initiative. | |
| 8 | Michael Bloomberg | Media and entertainment | 205.0 million | Other groups | The total includes Bloomberg's personal giving, his shares of his company’s giving, and his foundation’s giving to 1,100 different organizations. | |
| 9 | Boone Pickens | Oil, investments | 200.0 million | T. Boone Pickens Foundation | ||
| 9 | Robert A. Day | 200.0 million | Claremont McKenna College, Southern California Institute of Architecture | Claremont McKenna College: To create the Robert Day Scholars Program, a unique academic program that builds upon the best elements of an undergraduate liberal arts education with state-of-the-art curricula in finance, accounting, and organizational leadership. Southern California Institute of Architecture: For technology and facilities to educate architecture students. | ||
| 11 | John P. Morgridge, Tashia F. Morgridge | Technology | 179.0 million | Friends of Hoyt Park and Pool Inc., Fund for Wisconsin Scholars | Fund for Wisconsin Scholars: A founding gift to create a permanent endowment to provide financial grants for eligible, lower-income talented graduates of Wisconsin public schools attending a Wisconsin public post-secondary school. Friends of Hoyt Park and Pool Inc.: A new outdoor swimming pool. | |
| 12 | Eli Broad, Edythe L. Broad | Finance, real estate | 176.0 million | Chicago Public Schools, Michigan State University, University of California at Los Angeles | Michigan State University: For a new art museum. Chicago Public Schools: To update their administrative capabilities. University of California at Los Angeles: To fund adult and embryonic stem-cell research. | |
| 13 | Barbara Dodd Anderson | Family wealth | 128.5 million | George School | To support current strategic goals of the school, which emphasize three areas key to the school's mission -- student financial aid, faculty and staff compensation, and leadership in the area of environmental sustainability -- over 20 years. | |
| 14 | David H. Koch | Oil | 123.0 million | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Other groups, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | To build a new cancer research center that will bring together scientists and engineers under one roof to develop new and powerful ways to detect, diagnose, treat, and manage cancer; to create a center for research in cancers involving the reproductive and urinary systems. | |
| 15 | Lorry I. Lokey | Media and entertainment | 112.5 million | Stanford University - School of Medicine, University of Oregon | University of Oregon: The bulk of the gift will go toward the Lorry I. Lokey Science Advancement and Graduate Education Initiative, which includes funds for endowed faculty support, for a quasi-endowment for additional faculty support, for endowed support for graduate students, and for a quasi-endowment for program support. Stanford University - School of Medicine: To help build a home for Stanford's Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. | |
| 16 | Rupert H. Johnson | Finance | 100.0 million | Washington and Lee University | To support student scholarships and establish a lecture series on campus, a summer program in leadership for seniors at the college, and two professorships. | |
| 16 | Frank Batten Sr. | Communications | 100.0 million | University of Virginia | To establish a school of leadership and public policy. | |
| 16 | Philip H. Knight, Penny Knight | Manufacturing | 100.0 million | University of Oregon | To create the Oregon Athletics Legacy Fund, which will support all athletic programs. | |
| 16 | Richard S. Zeisler | Investments | 100.0 million | Various Art Museums | A bequest of more than 110 works by 20th-century masters such as Miró, Magritte, Max Beckmann, and Francis Bacon to 16 institutions. | |
| 16 | Henri Lazarof, Janice Lazarof | Entertainment | 100.0 million | Los Angeles County Museum of Art | A gift in kind of 130 works, including 20 pieces by Pablo Picasso, 21 watercolors and paintings by Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, and seven bronzes and one painting by Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti. | |
| 16 | Robert Powell, Jeannette Powell | Real estate | 100.0 million | University of the Pacific | A pledge to be paid upon death to offset tuition costs for students at the three-campus private university. | |
| 16 | Peter H. Lunder, Paula Crane Lunder | Manufacturing | 100.0 million | Colby College | A donation of private art collection including more than 500 paintings, sculptures, and prints by such masters as John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, and Georgia O'Keeffe, among others. | |
| 16 | Thomas M. Siebel | Technology | 100.0 million | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | To support science and engineering programs. | |
| 16 | Ann Lurie | Family wealth | 100.0 million | Children's Memorial Hospital (Chicago) | To establish a new, world-class medical center devoted exclusively to the care of children. | |
| 16 | Warren Alpert | Finance | 100.0 million | Brown University | A new building to house classrooms and offices, support for biomedical research, endowed professorships and scholarships, and faculty recruitment, fulfilling pledge made by Mr. Alpert before his death. | |
| 26 | Pierre Omidyar, Pam Omidyar | Technology | 97.8 million | HopeLab, Humanity United, The Omidyar Network | To be used for grants to various groups. | |
| 27 | Edwin A.G. Manton | Business | 91.0 million | The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | A bequest of $40 million in artwork; $50 million in cash to support research and educational programs. | |
| 28 | William Davidson, Karen Davidson | Business | 75.0 million | Hadassah: Women's Zionist Organization of America | To support the new inpatient tower at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem, Israel. | |
| 28 | Dan L. Duncan, Jan Duncan | Energy | 75.0 million | Houston Museum of Natural Science, Other groups, Texas Children's Hospital | Texas Children's Hospital: To launch the world's pre-eminent collaborative institute to study and treat pediatric neurological disorders; for its capital campaign. Houston Museum of Natural Science: The museum plans to build an addition that is likely to include classrooms, exhibition galleries, a collections-storage facility, educational facilities, and a Hall of Paleontology. | |
| 28 | R.C. Durr | Construction | 70.0 million | R.C. Durr Foundation | A bequest that will be focused toward social services and education. | |
| 28 | Jerry Yang, Akiko Yamazaki | Technology, media | 75.0 million | Stanford University | To cover the costs of a new environmental studies center scheduled to be completed in December, and to help fund a 120,000-square-foot center for training doctors. | |
| 28 | Harvey E. Najim | Business | 75.0 million | Harvey E. Najim Family Foundation | To create a new foundation to support education, children's medical treatment, and research on diseases that affect children, and other children's causes. | |
| 33 | Mart Green Family | Business | 70.0 million | Oral Roberts University | ||
| 34 | Jane Anne Nohl | Family wealth | 60.0 million | University of Southern California | To the Division of Hematology and the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center to support research in blood disorders and recruit outstanding physician researchers. | |
| 34 | Dale E. Fowler, Sarah Ann Fowler | Real estate | 60.0 million | Gordon College | An unrestricted endowment to be paid upon their death. | |
| 34 | Lee Anderson, Penny Anderson | Construction and manufacturing | 60.0 million | University of St. Thomas | For a new student center and improvements to athletic and recreational facilities. | |
| 37 | Peter B. Lewis | Finance | 54.5 million | American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Other groups, Princeton University | ||
| 38 | Richard Lundquist, Melanie Lundquist | Real estate | 54.0 million | Partnership for Los Angeles Schools | ||
| 39 | Melvin Simon, Bren Simon | Real estate | 52.4 million | Riley Hospital for Children | To help complete the Riley Hospital for Children Simon Family Tower. | |
| 40 | H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest, Marguerite B. Lenfest | Media and entertainment | 52.1 million | Teach for America, Washington and Lee University, Wilson College | ||
| 41 | John A. Swanson | Engineering | 51.3 million | University of Pittsburgh | To the university's School of Engineering for the transformation of Benedum Hall, the academic home of Pitt's School of Engineering and to establish an endowed fund that will provide a dedicated revenue source to be used at the discretion of the school's dean. | |
| 42 | Raymond Eckstein, Kathryn Eckstein | Shipping | 51.0 million | Marquette University | To build a new home for the law school. | |
| 43 | Oprah Winfrey | Media and entertainment | 50.2 million | Oprah Winfrey Foundation, Oprah's Angel Network | ||
| 44 | Dennis Gillings, Joan Gillings | Pharmaceuticals | 50.0 million | University of North Carolina | For the School of Public Health. | |
| 44 | Martin Silver, Constance Silver | Business | 50.0 million | New York University | To support the Constance McCatherin-Silver Fellowship; to establish an endowed professorship for a junior faculty member researching poverty; and to promote other new initiatives dedicated to the study of poverty and to better allocate funding, administration, and services. | |
| 44 | Paul Foster | Oil | 50.0 million | Texas Tech University | For the university's business school. | |
| 44 | James T. Emerson | Investments | 50.0 million | J.T.-Minnie Maude Charitable Trust | To create a trust that will provide educational scholarships and charitable grants. | |
| 44 | Eugene B. Adkins | Family wealth | 50.0 million | Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa | A private collection of more than 1,000 paintings and objects. | |
| 49 | Paul G. Allen | Technology | 46.0 million | Allen Institute for Brain Science, Experience Music Project, Other groups, Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, Science Fiction Museum | ||
| 50 | Joseph Zilber | Real estate | 45.5 million | Marquette University, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee | $5 million for new law school building and $25 million for scholarships, for the proposed School of Public Health. | |
| 51 | Lawrence J. Ellison | Technology | 39.0 million | Ellison Medical Foundation | To support research programs. | |
| 52 | Lillian Garner | Family wealth | 38.0 million | Jewish Home and Care Center Foundation | To support medical care for residents who do not have family members or money. | |
| 53 | Wade F.B. Thompson | Industry | 36.0 million | Park Avenue Armory | To help pay for its restoration. | |
| 54 | Patrick Soon-Shiong Family | Pharmaceuticals | 35.0 million | $25 million for hospital's expansion; $10 million to establish a center for transitional sciences and other development. | ||
| 54 | David H. Murdock | Business | 35.0 million | Duke University Medical School | To fund a project that will focus on developing more comprehensive and effective approaches to attacking maladies such as cancer, diabetes, liver disease, aging and arthritis, brain disorders, and heart disease. | |
| 54 | Don Logan, Sandy Logan | Media and entertainment | 35.0 million | Auburn University | To Auburn's College of Sciences and Mathematics to create the first endowed chair and support graduate fellowships. | |
| 54 | Christopher "Kit" Goldsbury | Manufacturing | 35.0 million | Culinary Institute of America | To establish the Center for Foods of the Americas in Texas. | |
| 58 | Robert W. Wilson | Investments | 30.5 million | Archdiocese of New York | Earmarked for scholarships to the Catholic elementary schools in Manhattan, Staten Island, and the Bronx. | |
| 59 | Michael Recanati, Ira Statfeld | Shipping | 30.0 million | New York University Child Study Center | To support clinical services, research, and educational programs about Asperger's syndrome. | |
| 59 | J. Peter Ministrelli, Florine Ministrelli | Construction | 30.0 million | Beaumont Hospitals | To support cardiology and urology programs and research at Beaumont Hospital. | |
| 59 | William R. Hough | Finance | 30.0 million | University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration | Establishes an endowment to support teaching, academic programs, and enhancements in the graduate school of business. | |
| 59 | Charles Duncan, Anne Duncan | Business | 30.0 million | Rice University | To build an environmentally friendly residence hall. | |
| 59 | Eugene Glick, Marilyn Glick | Real estate | 30.0 million | Indiana University | To build one of the top eye research institutes in the country. | |
| 59 | Irwin Jacobs, Joan Jacobs | Telecommunications | 30.0 million | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | To support graduate fellowships in the School of Engineering. | |
| 59 | Sheldon G. Adelson | Hotels | 30.0 million | Adelson School | To create the Adelson School, a private Jewish high school. | |
| 59 | James S. McDonnell III Family | Aviation | 30.0 million | Princeton University | To establish the McDonnell Center for Systems Neuroscience. | |
| 59 | Lester Smith, Sue Smith | Business | 30.0 million | Baylor College of Medicine | To fund gene-based research into breast cancer. | |
| 59 | Ronald Tutor | Engineering | 30.0 million | University of Southern California | For USC's new campus center. |