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$20 million gift: Jim and Augustine Smith’s record gift to medical school scholarships keeps homegrown doctors serving their own communities
$100 million gift from Bill and Donna Marriott advances Mayo Clinic’s bold vision for the future of cures
$10 million gift from James M. and Cathleen D. Stone deepens graduate center’s research on inequality
$7–8 billion philanthropic windfall from the Allen family expected to follow Seahawks’ Super Bowl triumph
$50 million latest gift to university from Larry Leinweber expands his philanthropy into the billion-dollar range
$50 million new gift from Mark Zuckerberg and Dr. Priscilla Chan is a bet that artificial intelligence applied to biology and broad-based STEM education will deliver the greatest impact of their lifetimes
$125 million donation by Aileen K. and Brian L. Roberts and their family redefines the future of children’s health
$27.5 million leadership gift from Arthur Blank results in launching Atlanta Opera’s Molly Blank Center a new headquarters and creative campus
Bekenstein and Lavine Families Make Dana-Farber’s Largest Single Gift, Shaping Future Cancer Hospital
$35 million gift from Irving Oil in honor of Arthur L. Irving to transform cancer care
$188 million gift to university’s Humanities Hub marks the pinnacle of Stephen A. Schwarzman’s billion-dollar lifetime of transformative philanthropy
$10 million gift from Jay and Patty Baker extends the impact of a multiyear capital and modernization effort of theater
$32 million new gift from MacKenzie Scott strengthens the National Council for Mental Wellbeing’s mission to advance mental health care
$10 million naming gift the Coletti Family to advance women’s cancer care
$600 million in gifts and counting: major donations from Riccio, Marieb, Manning, Berthiaume, and Paros families lead university’s history‑making “accelerate” campaign
$18 million from the auction of a Rembrandt drawing donated by philanthropist Tom Kaplan to the world’s leading conservation organization dedicated exclusively to the protection of wild cats
$20 million new gift opens the world: Louis and Mary Kay Smith ensure every St. Olaf student can study abroad at no extra cost
$10 million gift from Ila and Dinesh Paliwal positions Indian classical and contemporary music alongside the Western compositions that have long defined Carnegie Hall’s identity, signaling how diasporic donors are reshaping cultural institutions in New York and beyond
161.5 million dollars in new gifts are powering a bold, integrated model for women’s health, neonatal care, and biomedical breakthroughs led by Allison and Roberto Mignone, Kenneth C. Griffin, the Julia Koch Family Foundation, and the Blavatnik Family Foundation
$20 million donation from Thomas Dunn launches project defining a new field in algorithmic public policy
$30 million naming gift from Miguel Loya redefines engineering education at university
$36 million gift from Ron and Sandi Simon to healthcare center powers caregiver housing and cements legacy of transformative giving
$10 million gift from Barri and Dave Drury fuels the next generation of Pediatric Research at Children’s Hospital
$50 million new Wachenheim family gift backs new center for peace and security
$10 million new impetus: philanthropists Ken Griffin & Lifestyles Magazine/Meaningful Influence cover subject Stephen M. Ross launch national campaign to crown South Florida America’s new economic capital