Biggest Gifts and Pledges Announced by Individuals in 2001
December 31, 2001 | Read Time: 1 minute
| 1. | Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda | $2-billion |
| » To endow the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | ||
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| 2. | Jim Stowers, founder of American Century mutual-fund company, and his wife, Virginia | $1.11-billion |
| » To endow the Stowers Institute for Medical Research | ||
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| 3. | Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of the Intel Corporation, and his wife, Betty | $300-million pledge |
| » For education and science programs at the California Institute of Technology | ||
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| 4. | Bill Coleman, founder of BEA Systems, in San Jose, Calif., and his wife, Claudia | $250-million pledge |
| » To create a research institute operated by the University of Colorado system | ||
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| 4. | Ted Turner, founder of Turner Broadcasting System and Cable News Network | $250-milion pledge |
| » To establish the Nuclear Threat Initiative | ||
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| 5. | Anonymous donor | $230-million pledge |
| » For unrestricted use at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ||
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| 6. | Lucille Stewart Beeson, whose husband was an insurance executive | $150-million bequest |
| » To endow a trust to support 13 Birmingham-area charities | ||
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| 7. | Anonymous donor | $100-million pledge |
| » To create a malaria institute at the Johns Hopkins University | ||
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| » Currier Gallery of Art, Trinity College (Hartford, Conn.), and the Manchester Historic Association | ||
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| 8. | Jeanne Gaffé, of Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, whose late husband, René, was a Belgian businessman | Bequest of artwork sold for $73.3-million |
| » Unicef, or the United Nations Children’s Fund | ||
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| 9. | Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation, aninsurance company in Mayfield Village, Ohio | $60-million pledge |
| » To build and support a science library at Princeton University | ||
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| 10. | Anonymous donor | $58.5-million pledge |
| » To establish a research center at the John Hopkins University’s medical school | ||
