Gifts Roundup: Hip-Hop Star Dr. Dre Pledges $10 Million for Arts Center in Compton, Calif.

A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle:

Denver Dumb Friends League

John and Leslie Malone gave $20 million personally and through their Malone Family Foundation to expand and renovate the group’s 43-year-old animal shelter.

Mr. Malone is chairman of Liberty Media Group, a cable-television company. He was ranked Colorado’s biggest philanthropist in The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s recent report on the most generous donors in each state.

The Malones gave the animal-welfare group $7 million in 2012 for an equine-rehabilitation center.

Holocaust Museum Houston

Lester and Sue Smith pledged $15 million for a new building, which will be named the Holocaust Museum Houston, Lester and Sue Smith Campus.

Mr. Smith, an oilman, founded and heads the Smith Energy Company.

MD Anderson UTHealth Graduate School

John and Charlene Kopchick donated $10.5 million to endow student fellowships at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in Houston.

The gift will also pay for a research symposium and support research awards to students and their faculty mentors.

Dr. Kopchick is a molecular endocrinologist and professor at Ohio University. He received his Ph.D. from the UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in 1980. Ms. Kopchick is assistant dean of students for campus involvement at Ohio University.

Compton Unified School District

Andre Young, the hip-hop artist and producer known as Dr. Dre, pledged $10 million to help build Compton High School’s planned performing-arts center.

Mr. Young also promised to help the Compton district raise money from other donors to complete the new center, which is scheduled to break ground in 2020.

He and fellow music mogul Jimmy Iovine gave $35 million each in 2013 to create the Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy for Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation at the University of Southern California.

Michigan State University

Larry and Teresa Gaynor donated $3 million to create the Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab, a new space at the university’s Broad College of Business that will house entrepreneurship-focused courses, recitation sessions, and group work.

The Gaynors head TNG Worldwide, which manufactures and distributes beauty products. Mr. Gaynor earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Michigan State in 1977.

Austin Opera

Jeanette Nassour left $1.7 million to expand the troupe’s programs over the next several seasons. Ms. Nassour owned Cadeau, a gift shop in Austin, Tex. She died last year.

The opera company received a second gift last week: Ernest and Sarah Butler gave $1-million to endow the artistic director’s position. Dr. Butler is a retired otolaryngologist who founded the Austin Ear, Nose, & Throat Clinic.

Idaho State University

William Eames pledged $2.5 million to expand College of Technology programs and research space.

He founded William M. Eames & Associates, a consultancy, and was chief executive of Bill’s Drugs, a drugstore chain in California, for more than 30 years.

Mr. Eames graduated from the university’s College of Pharmacy and currently serves as president of its Board of Trustees.

To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week.