| |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda |
Three gifts totaling $16-billion |
To endow the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| James H. Clark, founder of Netscape |
$150-million |
To construct a biomedical-engineering center at Stanford University |
| Philip Forbes Holton, former chief executive officer of Inland Container Corporation, and his wife, Ruth Clark |
$128.5-million bequest |
For scholarships at DePauw University |
| Anonymous |
$100-million |
To renovate Cornell University’s West Campus |
| Eli Broad, chairman of SunAmerica |
$100-million |
To the Broad Foundation for a program to strengthen urban school districts |
| William Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard |
$100-million |
To establish the Flora Family Foundation |
| Kenan E. Sahin, founder of the software company Kenan Systems |
$100-million |
For the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s capital campaign |
| Raymond Baker, a former director of Pioneer Hi-Bred International, and his wife, Mary |
$80-million bequest |
For Iowa State University’s College of Agriculture |
| Paul Mellon, philanthropist |
$75-million bequest |
To the National Gallery of Art |
| Paul Mellon, philanthropist |
$75-million bequest |
To the Yale Center of British Art |
| Adrian French, musician |
$70-million |
For cancer research at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine |
| Margaret Adger Pitts, and her father, William I. H. Pitts, an investor in the Coca-Cola Company |
$65-million bequest |
To Emory University |
| Margaret Adger Pitts, and her father, William I. H. Pitts, an investor in the Coca-Cola Company |
$63.5-million bequest |
To Young Harris College |
| Rea A. Axline, an inventor, and his wife, Lela (Jackie) |
$60-million bequest |
For scholarships at the California Institute of Technology |
| Frank Batten, Sr., retired chairman of Landmark Communications |
$60-million |
To the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration |
| Steven Ferencz Udvar-Hazy, president of International Lease Finance Corporation |
$60-million |
For the National Air and Space Museum’s Dulles Center |
| Note: List is based on publicly announced donations to single institutions and does not include gifts of art. |
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