The Philanthropy 50: Americans Who Gave the Most in 2008
March 10, 2010 | Read Time: 1 minute
|
Rank |
Donor |
Total amount committed |
Years on list |
|---|---|---|---|
|
1 |
Leona M. Helmsley |
$5,200,000,000 |
1 |
|
2 |
James LeVoy Sorenson |
$4,500,000,000 |
1 |
|
3 |
Peter G. Peterson and Joan Ganz Cooney |
$1,015,500,000 |
1 |
|
4 |
Harold Alfond |
$360,000,000 |
1 |
|
5 |
Donald B. and Dorothy L. Stabler |
$334,200,000 |
1 |
|
6 |
David G. and Suzanne Deal Booth |
$300,000,000 |
1 |
|
7 |
Frank C. Doble |
$272,000,000 |
1 |
|
8 |
Robert L. and Catherine H. McDevitt |
$250,000,000 |
1 |
|
9 |
Michael R. Bloomberg |
$235,000,000 |
5 |
|
10 |
Dorothy Clarke Patterson |
$225,000,000 |
1 |
|
11 |
Richard W. Weiland |
$174,300,000 |
1 |
|
12 |
Helen L. Kimmel |
$156,500,000 |
1 |
|
13 |
Jeffrey S. Skoll |
$144,100,000 |
5 |
|
14 |
H.F. (Gerry) and Marguerite B. Lenfest |
$139,900,000 |
5 |
|
15 |
David Rockefeller |
$137,800,000 |
3 |
|
16 |
Stephen A. Schwarzman |
$105,000,000 |
1 |
|
17 |
Gerhard R. Andlinger |
$100,000,000 |
2 |
|
17 |
Eli and Edythe L. Broad |
$100,000,000 |
9 |
|
17 |
Philip H. and Penelope Knight |
$100,000,000 |
3 |
|
17 |
David H. Koch |
$100,000,000 |
3 |
|
17 |
Kenneth G. and Elaine A. Langone |
$100,000,000 |
1 |
|
22 |
Fritz J. and Dolores H. Russ |
$94,800,000 |
1 |
|
23 |
Frank Sr. and Jane Batten |
$93,000,000 |
4 |
|
24 |
Jesse H. and Beulah C. Cox |
$83,500,000 |
1 |
|
25 |
Henry R. and Marie-Josée Kravis |
$75,000,000 |
1 |
|
26 |
Ronald O. Perelman |
$63,500,000 |
2 |
|
27 |
Guy E. Beatty Jr. |
$60,000,000 |
3 |
|
28 |
Malone III and Amy Mitchell |
$57,200,000 |
1 |
|
29 |
Felix E. Martin Jr. |
$56,600,000 |
1 |
|
30 |
Paul G. Allen |
$55,850,316 |
7 |
|
31 |
Stewart A. and Lynda R. Resnick |
$55,304,000 |
1 |
|
32 |
Donald J. and Ruth Weber Goodman |
$52,700,000 |
1 |
|
33 |
Jerome and Anne Fisher |
$50,000,000 |
1 |
|
33 |
Michael Moritz and Harriet Hayman |
$50,000,000 |
1 |
|
33 |
Perot family |
$50,000,000 |
1 |
|
36 |
Emily Rauh Pulitzer |
$47,500,000 |
1 |
|
37 |
Lorry I. Lokey |
$46,700,000 |
7 |
|
38 |
Theodore and Vada Stanley |
$45,000,000 |
4 |
|
39 |
Adrienne Arsht |
$43,300,000 |
1 |
|
40 |
Sheldon G. and Miriam Adelson |
$41,850,000 |
2 |
|
41 |
Jon L. Stryker |
$41,848,927 |
3 |
|
42 |
Lawrence J. Ellison |
$40,293,012 |
8 |
|
43 |
John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn |
$40,025,000 |
1 |
|
43 |
Andrew S. Grove |
$40,000,000 |
2 |
|
45 |
William B. Quarton |
$35,360,000 |
1 |
|
46 |
Michael S. (Mickey) and Janie Maurer |
$35,200,000 |
1 |
|
47 |
Dennis J. and Constance Templeton Keller |
$35,000,000 |
2 |
|
47 |
Andrew H. and Ann Rubenstein Tisch |
$35,000,000 |
1 |
|
49 |
Peter T. Paul |
$34,208,000 |
1 |
|
50 |
David F. Bolger |
$30,450,000 |
1 |
