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Foundation Giving

Large Education Gifts and Grants: a Sampling

May 4, 2000 | Read Time: 1 minute

Compiled by Amanda Marshall

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Changing Schools in the Bay Area

Amount	Donor	Purpose	Year announced
$500-million (over five years)	Annenberg Foundation	To improve public schools nationwide	1993
$350-million (over three years)	Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation	To improve public schools nationwide	2000
$110-million (over three years)	Kathryn and Joe Albertson family	To help public schools in Idaho (to be distributed through the family’s foundation)	1998
$100-million	Annenberg Foundation	For the Peddie School’s (Hightstown, N.J.) endowment	1993
$100-million	Eli Broad	Distributed by the Broad Foundation to support urban school districts	1999
$55-million (over five years)	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation	For the President’s 21st Century Community Learning Program	1998
$50-million	Theodore J. Forstmann	To the Children’s Scholarship Fund (New York)	1998
$50-million	John T. Walton	To the Children’s Scholarship Fund (New York)	1998
$42-million	Richard D. Colburn	To the Colburn School of Performing Arts (Los Angeles) to create an endowment and a new building	1998
$35-million	H.F. and Marguerite Lenfest	To endow Mercersburg (Pa.) Academy	2000
$25-million¹	William R. Hewlett	To the Bay Area School Reform Collaborative (Calif.) to improve public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area	1995
$25-million	Jane Bradley Pettit	To finance the construction of a public technical high school in Milwaukee	1999
$25-million	Mary and Robert Pew	To improve public schools in Palm Beach and Martin Counties (Fla.), from the Mary and Robert Pew Public Education Fund	1998
$25-million²	Ted Turner	Unrestricted support for the McCallie School (Chattanooga, Tenn.)	1994
1 $15-million was provided by Mr. Hewlett; $10-million by his foundation. 2 Mr. Turner promised to give $1-million each year for five years and $20-million in a bequest.

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