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$3.35-billion
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Bill Gates, a co-founder of Microsoft (Seattle), and his wife, Melinda F. Gates
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To the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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$100-million
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Sidney E. Frank, head of the Sidney Frank Importing Company (New Rochelle, N.Y.).
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To Brown University (Providence, R.I.) to endow a scholarship fund for needy students
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$100-million
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Family of Leonard Miller, founder of the Lennar Corporation (Miami)
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To the University of Miami School of Medicine
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$100-million (pledge)
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Alfred E. Mann, chairman of Advanced Bionics Corporation (Sylmar, Calif.)
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To the American Technion Society to establish a biomedical-engineering institute at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Haifa)
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$100-million (pledge)
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Stephen M. Ross, a real-estate developer in New York City
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To the University of Michigan Business School (Ann Arbor)
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$93.3-million (bequest)
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George Cornell, a retired banker
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To Rollins College (Winter Park, Fla.)
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$72-million (pledge)
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Peter M. Nicholas, a co-founder of Boston Scientific Corporation (Natick, Mass.), and his wife, Virginia L. Nicholas, a retail-store owner
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To Duke University (Durham, N.C.), primarily for the School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
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$70-million (bequest)
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James F. Miller, former president of an investment firm
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To the James F. & Marion L. Miller Foundation (Portland, Ore.)
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$70-million (bequest)
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Sally Reahard, an heiress to the Lilly pharmaceutical fortune
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To the Nature Conservancy’s national headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to its Indiana chapter
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$60-million
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Samuel S. Garvin, founder of Continental Promotion Group (Scottsdale, Ariz.), and his wife, Rita Garvin
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To Thunderbird, the Garvin School of International Management (Glendale, Ariz.)
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$56-million (bequest)
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Burton D. Morgan, founder of Morgan Adhesives (Stow, Ohio)
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To the Margaret Clark Morgan Foundation (Hudson, Ohio)
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$56-million (bequest)
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Burton D. Morgan, founder of Morgan Adhesives (Stow, Ohio)
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To the Burton D. Morgan Foundation (Akron, Ohio)
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$55-million
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David Tepper, president of a hedge fund in Chatham, N.J., and his wife, Marlene Tepper
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To Carnegie Mellon University’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration (Pittsburgh)
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$52-million
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Andrew Viterbi, a co-founder of Qualcomm (San Diego), and his wife, Erna Viterbi
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To the University of Southern California’s School of Engineering (Los Angeles)
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$45-million
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Darla Moore, executive vice president of an investment firm in Fort Worth
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To the University of South Carolina’s Moore School of Business (Columbia)
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Note: Does not include gifts of artwork or other noncash donations, or gifts from anonymous donors.
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— Compiled by Maria DiMento and Caroline Preston
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