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Famous Philanthropists

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Name
Amount given
Cause
Jamsetji Tata
$102.4 billionEducation, healthcare
Bill Gates
$79 billionHealthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology
Warren Buffett
$32.1 billionHealthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation
George Soros
$32 billionHealthcare, anti-fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform
Azim Premji
$21 billionEducation, healthcare
MacKenzie Scott
$14 billionRacial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, functional democracy, and climate change
Michael Bloomberg
$21.1 billionEnvironment, public health, arts, government innovation and education
Li Ka-shing
$10.7 billionEducation, healthcare
Andrew Carnegie
$9.5 billionLibraries, education, peace
Alisher Usmanov
$7.3 billionArt, science, sport, healthcare
Chuck Feeney
$6.8 billionHealthcare, youth, aging, poverty, human rights
The Sainsbury family
$5 billionArt, education, human rights, youth, aging
Christopher Hohn
$4.5 billionYouth, poverty, education
Carlos Slim Helu
$4.2 billionArts, education, healthcare, sports, downtown restoration
Alwaleed Philanthropies
$4 billionAlwaleed Philanthropies collaborates with a range of philanthropic, government and educational organizations to combat poverty, empower women and youth, develop communities, provide disaster relief and create cultural understanding through education.
The Weston family
$2.3 billionInnovations, healthcare, aging, environment
Phil Knight
$2 billionEducation, healthcare, intercollegiate athletics
James E. Stowers
$2 billionHealthcare
Hansjoerg Wyss
$1.9 billionClimate change, poverty
Howard Hughes
$1.56 billionHealthcare
Ted Turner
$1 billionUnited Nations Foundation
Stephan Schmidheiny
$1.5 billionEnvironment, sustainable development
Vitalik Buterin
$1 billionDonated $1 billion worth of the cryptocurrencies Shiba Inu and Ether to a COVID-19 relief fund in India.
Michael Jackson
$500 million+Healthcare, poverty, youth, cancer research, education
T. Boone Pickens
$500 millionEducation

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