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$13 million gift from Tim and Holly Finchem aims to reimagine PGA Tour Charities
$40 million latest gesture by inventor and investor Herbert Wertheim raises his philanthropic giving towards the middle nine figures
$20 million donation from Susan Sturm opens new wing Museum of Nature & Science
$28 million gift from Dick and Cornelia Corbett built Tampa’s Egypt moment
$400 million he didn’t need: Eddie Smith Jr.’s fortune now belongs to everyone
$100 million new effort headed by Anna Adeola Makanju will fund partnership aimed at closing the stubborn gap between medical discovery and actual care
$250 million in philanthropic giving: Larry Gies still calls his own rise improbable—pouring resources into the people and places that made him who he is and letting everything else follow
$33 million in gifts to his school by Stephen Schanwald will build a state-of-the-art golf performance center and pump new life into business school program
$25 million to rewrite rare disease medicine: Michael Hund’s unique blueprint behind Rare Ventures
$200 million on a handshake with Wes Sechrest grew into the largest philanthropic fund in history devoted solely to pulling critically endangered species back from extinction’s edge
$28.7 million bet that the human heart can learn to heal itself, announced by Jonathan Simons
$10 million to help earthquake recovery announced by Carlos Jordá
$1 billion: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta launch community fund as their AI data center spending nears $145 billion
$150 million to reinvent a city: Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman open their checkbook to San Francisco
$10 million new gift: Laurie McGrath’s latest donation builds a waterfront tribute to those who served—elevating the family’s giving past $150 million
$125 million gift from philanthropists Jonathan and Mindy Gray reflects a lifetime of generous giving to health and opportunity
$30 million latest gift: the Goldrich family’s extraordinary legacy of survival becomes a gift of prevention
$50 million new bet from billionaire David Einhorn on the science of human connection
$27 million new gift to medical research from Tim and Barbara Michels cements a legacy born from the couple’s own family health crisis and follows their earlier $15 million gift
$100 million new effort from a $13 billion family legacy: Hewlett grandchildren Billy Hewlett, Flora Hewlett Birdzell, and Carrie Hewlett Zeisler champion new AI and biosecurity initiatives
$50.5 million and counting: Jack Little’s latest, biggest bet on the Berkshires makes him New England’s most consequential conservation donor
$50 million gift from investor and alumnus William “Bill” Ford to college reflects a pattern of deeply personal, institution-focused giving that blends loyalty, governance, and long-term investment in intellectual communities
$50 million latest gift to university announced by William P. Carey II brings his family’s donations to school over the $125 million mark
$80 million to heal a region: Bill and Tracy Frist and family back college center, linking wellness and the outdoors
$10 million gift from Jonathan and Polly Levine reshapes the future of life at ASU, raising their overall philanthropy to approaching $100 million to date