Gifts of $1-Million or More in 2012, by Cause
February 10, 2013 | Read Time: 5 minutes
| Cause | Donor | Recipient Organization | Gift Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports and Recreation | Thomas Golisano | Special Olympics (Washington) | $12,000,000 |
| Sports and Recreation | Joshua Rechnitz | New York City Fieldhouse (Brooklyn, N.Y.) | $50,000,000 |
| Sports and Recreation | John and Jenny Paulson | Central Park Conservancy (New York) | $100,000,000 |
| Sports and Recreation | Brooke Russell Astor | Central Park Conservancy (New York) | $1,000,000 |
| Schools | Patrick and Tandra Cadigan | Boston College High School | $12,000,000 |
| Schools | Ethel Strong Allen | Hackley School (Tarrytown, N.Y.) | $49,268,000 |
| Schools | David Koch | Allen-Stevenson School (New York) | $5,000,000 |
| Schools | Sheldon and Miriam Adelson | Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Educational institute (Las Vegas) | $50,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Vance Kondon and Elisabeth Giesberger | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and San Diego Museum of Art | $45,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Brooke Russell Astor | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) | $20,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Brooke Russell Astor | New York Public Library | $15,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | David Koch | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) | $65,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | David Koch | National Museum of Natural History (Washington) | $35,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Fred Fields | Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (Portland) | $2,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Fred Fields | Portland Art Museum (Ore.) | $1,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Fred Fields | Columbia River Maritime Museum (Astoria, Ore.) | $1,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Paul Allen | Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum (Seattle) | $8,000,000 |
| Museums and Libraries | Brooke Russell Astor | Morgan Library & Museum (New York) | $1,500,000 |
| Medical Research, Science | Paul Allen | Allen Institute for Brain Science (Seattle) | $300,000,000 |
| Medical Research | Lawrence Ellison | Ellison Medical Foundation (New York) | $45,632,000 |
| Medical Research | Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki | Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (New York) | $32,773,333 |
| Human-Service Groups | Stephen Bing | Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) | $30,000,000 |
| Human-Service Groups | Jeffrey Katzenberg | Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) | $30,000,000 |
| Human-Service Groups | Steven Spielberg | Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) | $30,000,000 |
| Human-Service Groups | David Geffen | Motion Picture and Television Fund Foundation (Woodland Hills, Calif.) | $30,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | David Koch | Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at the Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York) | $10,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Thomas Golisano | Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida (Fort Myers ) | $20,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Fred Fields | Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, Calif.) | $1,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver | Baptist Health Foundation (Jacksonville, Fla.) | $10,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers, Medical Research | David Rubenstein | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York) | $10,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Ronald Perelman | Barbara Streisand Women’s Heart Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles) | $1,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Darlene Marcos Shiley | Scripps Health (San Diego) | $5,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Herbert and Florence Irving | NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York) | $20,000,000 |
| Hospitals and Medical Centers | Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer | Cape Cod Hospital (Hyannis, Mass.) | $1,000,000 |
| Historic Preservation | David Rubenstein | Trust for the National Mall (Washington) | $7,500,000 |
| Historic Preservation | Fred Fields | Oregon Historical Society (Portland) | $2,000,000 |
| Historic Preservation | Brooke Russell Astor | Historic Hudson Valley (Tarrytown, N.Y.) | $1,200,000 |
| Health Charities | Fred Fields | Ronald McDonald House Charities of Oregon and Southwest Washington (Portland) | $1,000,000 |
| Health Charities | Sheldon and Miriam Adelson | Hebrew SeniorLife (Boston) | $3,000,000 |
| Health Charities | Sheldon and Miriam Adelson | Chelsea Jewish Foundation (Mass.) | $1,000,000 |
| Foundations | Warren Buffett | NoVo Foundation (New York) | $1,027,773,653 |
| Foundations | Warren Buffett | Sherwood Foundation (Omaha) | $1,027,773,653 |
| Foundations | Warren Buffett | Howard G. Buffett Foundation (Decatur, Ill.) | $1,027,773,653 |
| Foundations | Eli and Edythe Broad | Broad Foundations (Los Angeles) | $101,500,000 |
| Foundations | Joshua Rechnitz | Powerhouse Environmental Art Foundation (New York) | $7,000,000 |
| Foundations | Sheldon and Miriam Adelson | Dr. Miriam and Sheldon G. Adelson Medical Research Foundation (Needham, Mass.) | $67,000,000 |
| Foundations | Jon Stryker | Arcus Foundation (Kalamazoo, Mich.) | $30,092,787 |
| Foundations | Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki | Brin Wojcicki Foundation (Palo Alto, Calif.) | $190,126,667 |
| Foundations | John and Laura Arnold | Laura and John Arnold Foundation (Houston) | $251,253,364 |
| Community Foundations | Brooke Russell Astor | New York Community Trust | $42,000,000 |
| Community Foundations | Fred Fields | Oregon Community Foundation (Portland) | $166,000,000 |
| Community Foundations | Garthe and Grace Brown | Oregon Community Foundation (Portland) | $43,137,000 |
| Community Foundations | David Gundlach | Elkhart County Community Foundation (Ind.) | $140,000,000 |
| Community Foundations | Mary Porter | Community Foundation of Broward (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) | $43,900,000 |
| Community Foundations | Wayne and Delores Barr Weaver | Community Foundation in Jacksonville (Fla.) | $73,700,000 |
| Community Foundations | Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan | Silicon Valley Community Foundation (San Mateo, Calif.) | $498,780,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Alan McKim | Northeastern University (Boston) | $30,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Brooke Russell Astor | Rockefeller University (New York) | $2,640,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Brooke Russell Astor | New York University Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development | $2,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Carl Icahn | Mount Sinai School of Medicine (New York) | $150,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Darlene Marcos Shiley | University of San Diego | $20,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Darlene Marcos Shiley | California State University at San Marcos | $1,200,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | David Koch | Technology Children’s Centers at Vassar Street (Cambridge, Mass.) | $20,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | David Koch | Columbia University (New York) | $1,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | David Rubenstein | Duke University (Durham, N.C.) | $15,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | David Rubenstein | Duke University (Durham, N.C.) | $10,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Ernest Scheller Jr. and Roberta Scheller | Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta) | $50,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Eugene Lang | Swarthmore College (Pa.) | $50,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Fred Fields | Lewis & Clark College (Portland, Ore.) | $10,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Fred Fields | Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland) | $2,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Fred Fields | University of Oregon (Eugene) | $2,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Fred Fields | Purdue University (West Lafayette, Ind.) | $2,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Fred Fields | Lake Erie College (Painesville, Ohio) | $1,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | George Roberts | Claremont McKenna College (Calif.) | $50,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Helen Gurley Brown | Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (New York) | $18,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Helen Gurley Brown | Stanford School of Engineering (Calif.) | $12,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Herbert and Florence Irving | Columbia University Medical Center (New York) | $40,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | James Spilker Jr. and Anna Marie Spilker | Stanford School of Engineering (Calif.) | $28,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Jeff and Judy Henley | University of California at Santa Barbara | $50,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Jonathan and Karin Fielding | University of California at Los Angeles School of Public Health | $50,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Joseph and Kathy O’Donnell | Harvard University (Cambridge, Mass.) | $30,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Leon and Debra Black | Dartmouth College (Hanover, N.H.) | $48,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Mica Ertegun | University of Oxford (England) | $41,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Michael Moritz and Harriet Heyman | University of Oxford (England) | $116,360,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Michael and Marilyn Quinlan | Loyola University Chicago Michael R. Quinlan School of Business | $40,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Mortimer Zuckerman | Columbia University (New York) | $200,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Patrick and Tandra Cadigan | Boston College | $15,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Philip and Penelope Knight | Oregon Health & Science University Foundation (Portland) | $125,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Richard D’Amore | Northeastern University (Boston) | $30,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Richard Driehaus | DePaul University (Chicago) | $30,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Ronald Perelman | University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) | $25,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer | University of Southern California (Los Angeles) | $25,000,000 |
| Colleges and Universities | Leonard and Pamela Schaeffer | Princeton University (N.J.) | $1,000,000 |
| Arts Groups | David Koch | New York City Opera | $1,000,000 |
| Arts Groups | Ronald Perelman | Apollo Theater Foundation (New York) | $1,000,000 |
