Charities That Have Scored Multiple Multimillion-Dollar ‘Big Bets’
By Drew Lindsay
Senior Editor, Special Projects
November 19, 2015 | Read Time: 3 minutes
Bridgespan identified 28 charities and foundations that from 2000 to 2012 received at least four gifts of $10 million or more from at least two donors.
Alliance for Climate Protection ($46 million total)
Benificus Foundation
Lincy Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Skoll Foundation
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ($89 million)
David and Inez Myers Foundation
Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation
Boy Scouts of America ($155 million)
Edward and Jeanne Arnold
S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
James Justice
Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones
Ruby Foundation
Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation
Boys & Girls Club of America ($44 million)
Anonymous
Arizona Community Foundation
Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation
Peter and Ginny Nicholas
Charter Fund ($89 million)
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
ClimateWorks Foundation ($860 million)
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
McKnight Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan ($95 million)
Ford Foundation
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Kresge Foundation
Conservation International ($407 million)
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Energy Foundation ($78 million)
McKnight Foundation
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Environmental Defense Fund ($118 million)
Robertson Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Robert W. Wilson
Harlem Children’s Zone ($196 million)
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
Druckenmiller Foundation/Stanley Druckenmiller
Open Society Foundations
National Philanthropic Trust
Oak Foundation U.S.A.
Starr Foundation
Institute of International Education ($100 million)
Ford Foundation
Henry Kaufman
Whitaker Foundation
KIPP ($87 million)
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Atlantic Philanthropies
Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Doris and Don Fisher
Houston Endowment
Walton Family Foundation
Nature Conservancy ($370 million)
Anonymous
Priscilla Bullitt Collins
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Dennis and Constance Templeton Keller
Newell and Ann Meyer
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Pew Charitable Trusts
Sally Reahard
Tosa Foundation
Trust for Public Land
Wallace Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust
Wyss Foundation
Planned Parenthood Federation of America ($121 million)
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Robin Hood Foundation ($163 million)
Steven A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation
Dalio Foundation
Open Society Foundations
Sidney E. Frank Charitable Foundation
Salvation Army ($1.6 billion)
Lois M. Collier
Hector Guy and Doris Di Stefano
Joan B. Kroc
Lilly Endowment
Save the Children ($64 million)
Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation
Charity Projects Entertainment Fund
Stanford University ($235 million)
Robert E. and Dorothy J. King
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Jay A. Precourt
Teach for America ($206 million)
Laura and John Arnold Foundation
Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation
Michael and Susan Dell Foundation
Don and Doris Fisher
Lenfest Foundation
Stephen F. and Susan Mandel Jr.
Robertson Foundation
Walton Family Foundation
Meg Whitman
Tides Center ($84 million)
California Endowment
Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
UNICEF ($114 million)
William J. Clinton Foundation
Entertainment Industry Foundation
Rene and Jeanne Gaffe
Rotary International
United Nations Foundation
United Jewish Appeal ($188 million)
Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation
Jewish Communal Fund
United Way ($260 million)
Lenfest Foundation
Lilly Endowment
Global Impact
John S. and Leigh Middleton
Stardust Foundation
Wildlife Conservation Society ($95 million)
Starr Foundation
Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust
World Health Organization ($124 million)
Rotary International
United Nations Foundation
World Wildlife Fund ($84 million)
Edward P. Bass
Hector Guy and Doris Di Stefano
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Vicki and Roger Sant
Youth Villages ($82 million)
Jacobson Family Foundation
Day Foundation
Edna McConnell Clark Foundation
