No. 48: James Spilker Jr. and Anna Marie Spilker
The Spilkers pledged $28-million to the Stanford School of Engineering to endow a professorship and provide other support.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 40 (tied): Steven Spielberg
Mr. Spielberg, 66, pledged $30-million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 40 (tied): Jeffrey Katzenberg
Mr. Katzenberg, 62, pledged $30-million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 40 (tied): Helen Gurley Brown
Ms. Gurley Brown, who was 90 when she died in August, gave $18-million to Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and $12-million to the Stanford School of Engineering.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mr. Roberts, 69, pledged $50-million to Claremont McKenna College.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mr. Lang, 93, pledged $50-million to Swarthmore College for new engineering and science facilities and for programs connecting engineering with the liberal arts.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Mr. Allen, 60, pledged $300-million to the Allen Institute for Brain Science to pay for the first phase of a 10-year project.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
No. 21 (tied): Ernest Scheller Jr. and Roberta Scheller
Ernest Scheller, 83, and Roberta Scheller pledged $50-million to the Georgia Institute of Technology for its business school.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Ms. Porter, who was 98 when she died in 2009, bequeathed her entire estate, worth $43.9-million, to the Community Foundation of Broward.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
America’s Big Donors Lag in Charitable Giving
The 50 most generous donors didn’t match their pre-recession gifts in 2012, but a boom in donations by people under 40 is a healthy sign for the future.
By Maria Di Mento and Caroline Preston