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$31-billion (pledge)
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Warren E. Buffett, chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway
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To the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
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$1.3-billion
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Herbert M. and Marion O. Sandler, co-chief executive officers of Golden West Financial Corporation
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To the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation (San Francisco)
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$723.2-million
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Bernard A. Osher, co-founder of Golden West Financial Corporation
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To the Bernard Osher Foundation (San Francisco)
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$500-million (bequest)
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Jim Joseph, founder of the Interland Corporation
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To the Jim Joseph Foundation (San Francisco)
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$225-million (pledge)
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David Rockefeller, retired chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank
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To the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (New York) for a global development fund
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$200-million (bequest)
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Mary Joan Palevsky, investor
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To the California Community Foundation (Los Angeles)
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$137.6-million
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Eli Broad, founding chairman of KB Home Corporation, and his wife, Edythe L. Broad
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To the Broad Foundations
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$135-million
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Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital Management
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To establish the T. Boone Pickens Foundation (Dallas)
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$105-million (pledge)
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Philip H. Knight, chairman of Nike
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To Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Calif.) for a new management-center campus
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$101-million (pledge)
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Peter B. Lewis, chairman of the Progressive Corporation
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To Princeton University (N.J.) for creative- and performing-arts programs
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$100-million
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John Arrillaga, co-founder of Peery Arrillaga
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To Stanford University (Calif.)
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$100-million (pledge)
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Dan L. Duncan, chairman of Enterprise Products
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To Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) primarily for faculty recruitment, programs at the institution’s cancer center, and research
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$100-million (pledge)
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Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle
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To the Ellison Medical Foundation (Bethesda, Md.)
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$100-million (pledge)
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Ronald P. Stanton, chairman of Transammonia
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To Yeshiva University (New York)
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$100-million (pledge)
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Mortimer B. Zuckerman, publisher and real-estate developer
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To Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (New York) for a research facility
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Note: Does not include gifts of artwork or other noncash donations, or gifts from anonymous donors. Unless otherwise noted, the donor did not place any restrictions on how the money was to be used. Also does not include multiple big gifts by Mr. Buffett, who announced pledges worth a total of $6-billion to several Buffett family foundations. Mr. Lewis paid $21-million of his pledge to Princeton University in 2005, but did not announce the size of his total gift until 2006.
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