The Chronicle Digs Deep to Compile Annual List of Top 50 Donors
Inside the methodology for tallying which philanthropists gave away the most in in 2016.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: $25 Million Donation Boosts U. of Texas Medical School
Other notable gifts include $25 million for a new music building at Notre Dame and $12.5 million for a student center at Weill Cornell Medicine.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Bay Area Billionaires Give $100 Million for STEM Campus
Other notable donations include $12 million to expand the University of Utah’s business school and $8 million plus a trove of Old Master drawings to the University of North Carolina’s Ackland Art Museum.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Grocery Executive Gives $100 Million to Train School Leaders
Other notable donations include $20 million for the University of Houston’s new art college and $10 million for a new residence hall at Marquette.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Iowa State Lands $93 Million Equity Gift
A former Iowa State student gave the university’s foundation his majority stake in an education-technology company he helped found.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Helen Diller Fund Gives $500 Million for Biomedical Research, With Few Strings Attached
The late donor’s daughter said the relatively unrestricted pledge is structured to help the university “move rapidly and achieve great things” in biomedical research.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: $7 Million for Cornell Closes Book on Charles Feeney’s Giving
Other notable donations include $10 million-plus for cancer research at Stony Brook University and $5 million for renovations at the University of Iowa’s football stadium.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: $20 Million Donation Buttresses New Vanderbilt Colleges
Also, two Chicago investment titans make big gifts to support lakefront recreation and financial education.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Megagifts Rise in 2016, With 12 Topping $100 Million
Donations of $500 million by investor and art collector Nicolas Berggruen for his namesake think tank and by Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penny, to the University of Oregon tied for the year’s biggest gift.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor
Gifts Roundup: Craigslist Founder Backs Journalism-Ethics Program
Other big donations support advanced medical research at the University of California at San Francisco and Indiana University.
By Maria Di Mento
Senior Editor