Gifts Roundup: Mark Wahlberg Gives $1.5 Million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund in Michelle Williams’s Name

A roundup of notable gifts compiled by The Chronicle:

Boca Raton Regional Hospital Foundation

Stanley and Marilyn Barry, Christine Lynn, and Richard and Barbara Schmidt and the Schmidt Family Foundation together gave $35 million to expand the hospital.

The Barrys donated $10 million, Ms. Lynn gave $15 million, and the Schmidts and their foundation are making a $10 million gift.

Stanley Barry, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the hospital’s foundation, is a Florida real-estate investor. Ms. Barry owns a stake in her family’s Fell Organization, a real-estate firm in New York.

Ms. Lynn is the widow of Eugene Lynn, chairman emeritus of the Lynn Insurance Group. Richard Schmidt is a lawyer, and Ms. Schmidt is co-founder of Ronald McDonald Children’s Charities of South Florida.

TheDream.US

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife, MacKenzie, an author, gave $33 million for college scholarships for 1,000 undocumented immigrant graduates of U.S. high schools with DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) status.

Mr. Bezos credited his father with inspiring him to make the gift.

“My dad came to the U.S. when he was 16 as part of Operation Pedro Pan,” said Mr. Bezos in a news release. “He landed in this country alone and unable to speak English. With a lot of grit and determination, and the help of some remarkable organizations in Delaware, my dad became an outstanding citizen, and he continues to give back to the country that he feels blessed him in so many ways,” he said.

Great American Songbook Foundation

Bren Simon donated her $30 million Asherwood property, a lavish mansion and 107-acre estate in Carmel, Ind., to create a museum dedicated to the music of Tin Pan Alley, Broadway, and Hollywood.

Ms. Simon is the widow of Melvin Simon, a co-founder of Simon Property Group, which owned shopping malls. He died in 2009. Ms. Simon’s gift includes all the real estate and personal property at Asherwood.

San Diego Zoo

South Dakota banker Denny Sanford gave $30 million to build a new children’s zoo, which will be named for him. The zoo is scheduled to open in spring 2021.

Mr. Sanford is a prolific donor to many causes and has appeared on The Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 50 seven times so far. He is chairman of United National Corporation, a bank holding company.

Spine Hospital at the Neurological Institute of New York

Daniel and Jane Och gave $25 million for the newly renamed Daniel and Jane Och Spine Hospital at NewYork-Presbyterian.

Mr. Och leads Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a hedge fund and alternative asset-management firm.

Longhorn Foundation

Cecil Reynolds and Julia Hickman pledged $20 million for mental and behavioral health services for student-athletes at the University of Texas at Austin.

The gift will be used to establish the Cecil Reynolds and Julia Hickman Center for Student-Athlete Brain & Behavioral Health.

Mr. Reynolds is a retired Texas A&M University psychology professor who is well known in his field for his work in psychological testing and assessment.

Ms. Hickman is a clinical psychologist and taught at the University of Texas in the 1990s.

Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute

Jim and Maureen Hackett pledged $20 million to create the new mental-health policy center, which aims to improve access to treatment.

The new organization will first focus on people affected by Hurricane Harvey, especially children, a group considered one of the storm’s hardest-hit survivors.

Mr. Hackett is a former chief executive of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, an oil and natural gas exploration and production company. Ms. Hackett is a former pharmaceutical sales representative. She said in a news report that the couple’s efforts to address the need for better post-Harvey services grew out of the family’s own experiences during the storm.

The couple lives in the Houston area. Ms. Hackett was out of town when Harvey hit and had to watch from afar while her daughter, son-in-law, and three grandchildren lived in their home’s pantry for several days. Meanwhile the floods made it impossible for Ms. Hackett to reach Mr. Hackett, who was hospitalized at the time. The experience was worrisome, but she knew her family was safe and that others had experienced far worse.

Taft Museum of Art

Sallie Robinson Wadsworth left $5 million to endow the museum’s lead curatorial position.

Ms. Robinson was a longtime donor to the museum and a member of the institution’s first docent class of 1971—72. She served on the Museum’s board of Directors for 30 years and died in 2017.

Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund

The actor Mark Wahlberg donated $1.5 million to the fund created earlier this month to help people who have experienced sexual abuse, assault, or harassment find legal representation. The fund is housed and administered by the National Women’s Law Center.

The money comes from the salary Mr. Wahlberg received for reshooting portions of All the Money in the World, a film that was retooled after scenes including one of its lead actors, Kevin Spacey, were cut following accusations that Mr. Spacey had sexually harassed and abused others over the course of his career. Mr. Spacey was dismissed from the film.

Mr. Wahlberg gave the money in the name of his co-star on the film, Michelle Williams, after it was reported that Ms. Williams was paid a fraction of Mr. Wahlberg’s compensation for the reshot scenes.

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