| |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Martha R. Ingram, chairman of Ingram Industries and a director of Ingram Micro |
$300-million in Ingram Micro stock |
To support athletics, health care, public service, research, and teaching at Vanderbilt University. |
| David A. Duffield, chairman of PeopleSoft, and his wife, Cheryl |
$200-million |
To begin a nationwide effort to save stray cats and dogs from euthanasia. |
| Kirk Kerkorian, financier |
$200-million |
To establish an interest-free lending program to benefit entrepreneurs in Armenia, for road construction, and for repairs in parts of Armenia harmed by a 1988 earthquake. |
| James E. Rogers, owner of Sunbelt Communications |
$130-million |
For the University of Arizona’s College of Law and other programs. |
| Donald and Mildred Topp Othmer, investors |
$175-million bequest |
To Polytechnic University. |
| Donald and Mildred Topp Othmer, investors |
$125-million bequest |
To the University of Nebraska at Lincoln. |
| Ralph Engelstad, owner of the Imperial Palace Hotel and Casino, and his wife, Betty |
$100-million |
To construct a hockey arena at the University of North Dakota and for other uses. |
| Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda |
$100-million |
To the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health, to immunize poor children in developing countries. |
| Alfred Mann, chairman of MiniMed Inc. |
$100-million |
To create a bioengineering institute at the University of California at Los Angeles. |
| Alfred Mann, chairman of MiniMed Inc. |
$100-million |
To create a bioengineering institute at the University of Southern California. |
| Donald and Mildred Topp Othmer, investors |
$100-million bequest |
To Long Island (N.Y.) College Hospital. |
| Sanford I. Weill, chief executive officer of the Travelers Group |
$100-million |
To Cornell University’s medical college. |
| Joan Kroc, heiress to the McDonald’s restaurant chain |
$80-million |
To the Salvation Army, to build and endow a 12-acre community center in San Diego. |
| Peter B. Lewis, chairman of Progressive Corporation |
$50-million |
To the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, for endowment and for renovations to its theater. |
| Michael R. Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg Financial Markets |
$45-million |
For scholarships and endowment at the Johns Hopkins University. |
| Bernard Marcus, chairman of Home Depot |
$45-million |
To the Kennedy Krieger Institute, in Baltimore, to build a treatment center in Atlanta for children with brain disorders. |
Notes: Does not include an anonymous donation pledged to Cornell University; the donor will only contribute the money if other sources provide three times as much money to the institution.
Gifts of art are also not included. |
