February 10, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute
Amount donated in 2012: $42.5-million
Top beneficiary: Duke University
Other notable gift: $10-million to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Background: Mr. Rubenstein is a co-founder and the managing director of the Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm.
Mr. Rubenstein, 63, pledged $15-million to Duke University to establish new courses and a business-incubator and mentoring program within the university’s new Innovation and Entrepreneurship Initiative. He also committed $10-million to the Duke athletics department for endowment and other support. Mr. Rubenstein graduated from Duke in 1970.
In addition, Mr. Rubenstein pledged $10-million to Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center to establish the new David M. Rubenstein Center for Pancreatic Cancer Research; and $7.5-million to the Trust for the National Mall to cover the costs of repairing the Washington National Monument, which was damaged in a 2011 earthquake.
