Name↕ | Amount given↕ | Cause↕ |
|---|---|---|
Jamsetji Tata | $102.4 billion | Education, healthcare |
Bill Gates | $79 billion | Healthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology |
Warren Buffett | $32.1 billion | Healthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation |
George Soros | $32 billion | Healthcare, anti-fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform |
Azim Premji | $21 billion | Education, healthcare |
MacKenzie Scott | $14 billion | Racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, functional democracy, and climate change |
Michael Bloomberg | $21.1 billion | Environment, public health, arts, government innovation and education |
Li Ka-shing | $10.7 billion | Education, healthcare |
Andrew Carnegie | $9.5 billion | Libraries, education, peace |
Alisher Usmanov | $7.3 billion | Art, science, sport, healthcare |
Chuck Feeney | $6.8 billion | Healthcare, youth, aging, poverty, human rights |
The Sainsbury family | $5 billion | Art, education, human rights, youth, aging |
Christopher Hohn | $4.5 billion | Youth, poverty, education |
Carlos Slim Helu | $4.2 billion | Arts, education, healthcare, sports, downtown restoration |
Alwaleed Philanthropies | $4 billion | Alwaleed 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 billion | Innovations, healthcare, aging, environment |
Phil Knight | $2 billion | Education, healthcare, intercollegiate athletics |
James E. Stowers | $2 billion | Healthcare |
Hansjoerg Wyss | $1.9 billion | Climate change, poverty |
Howard Hughes | $1.56 billion | Healthcare |
Ted Turner | $1 billion | United Nations Foundation |
Stephan Schmidheiny | $1.5 billion | Environment, sustainable development |
Vitalik Buterin | $1 billion | Donated $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 million | Education |
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