February 10, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute
Amount donated in 2013: $452-million
Beneficiaries: Arts, education, environment, and public-health groups, and programs aimed at improving city governments around the world.
Background: Mr. Bloomberg founded the Bloomberg financial-data and news-service company.
Mr. Bloomberg, 71, gave a total of $452-million to arts, education, environment, and public-health nonprofits. He also gave to programs meant to help city governments around the world locate and test new ideas and to make city governance more efficient and creative.
Mr. Bloomberg served three consecutive terms as mayor of New York from 2001 through 2013. He said through a spokeswoman that he expects to spend more time on his philanthropic efforts now that he is out of office.
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