February 10, 2013 | Read Time: 1 minute
Amount donated in 2012: $30-million
Beneficiary: Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation
Background: Mr. Bing is a filmmaker, businessman, and heir to the fortune of Leo S. Bing, his grandfather and a co-founder of Bing & Bing, a prominent real-estate company of the early 20th century.
Mr. Bing, 47, pledged $30-million to the Motion Picture & Television Fund Foundation to endow the organization’s work of providing health care and other types of assistance to elderly people who worked in film and television.
A member of the foundation’s board, Mr. Bing has supported the nonprofit in previous years. The foundation will receive his most recent donation upon his death.
