| Donor |
Amount |
Purpose |
| Bill Gates, chairman of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda |
$5-billion |
To endow the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation |
| Gordon Moore, chairman emeritus of Intel, and his wife, Betty |
$5-billion pledge |
To endow the Gordon E. and Betty I. Moore Foundation |
| Patrick J. McGovern Jr., chairman of International Data Group, and his wife, Lore Harp McGovern, an entrepreneur |
$350-million pledge |
To establish the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Anonymous donor |
$130-million |
For two new buildings at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in New York |
| Jon M. Huntsman, chairman of Huntsman Corporation |
$125-million |
To the University of Utah?s Huntsman Cancer Institute |
| Dora Donner Ide, heiress to a steel fortune |
$111-million bequest |
To add to the endowments of 29 charities |
| James Barksdale, former president of Netscape, and his wife, Sally |
$100-million |
To establish the Barksdale Reading Institute at the University of Mississippi |
| Philip and Donna Berber, founders of CyBerCorp.com |
$100-million pledge |
For the operating costs of A Glimmer of Hope, a foundation they created |
| Jean Jessop Hervey, whose late husband invested in Price Club |
$80-million bequest |
To create a donor-advised fund at the San Diego Foundation |
| Kenneth Behring, a real-estate developer |
$80-million |
For renovations and new exhibits at the Museum of American History |
| Eli Broad, chairman of SunAmerica, and his wife, Edythe |
$67-million |
To endow the Broad Foundation |
| Warren Bailey, co-owner of the Camden Telephone Company |
$60-million bequest |
To St. Marys (Ga.) United Methodist Church |
| John Kluge, president of Metromedia |
$60-million |
To the Library of Congress |
| Michael J. Fitzpatrick, former chairman of E-TEK Dynamics, and his wife, Patty |
$50-million pledge |
For photonics research at Duke University and Stanford University |
| Theodore Forstmann, senior partner at Forstmann Little & Company |
$50-million |
To the Children?s Scholarship Fund at Fo |
| Billy Joe (Red) McCombs, owner of the Minnesota Vikings |
$50-million |
For the business school at the University of Texas at Austin |
| Richard Schulze, chairman of Best Buy, and his wife, Sandra |
$50-million |
For scholarships at the University of Saint Thomas |
| Clara Rosenthal Weitzenhoffer, heiress to an oil fortune of artworks |
$50-million bequest |
To the University of Oklahoma |
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