Top 20 Corporations, Ranked by Giving as a Percentage of Previous Year’s Pre-Tax Profits
July 15, 1999 | Read Time: 1 minute
| 1999 rank | 1999 percentage | 1998 rank | 1998 percentage |
1997 rank | 1997 percentage |
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| Bankers Trust Corporation | 1 | 8.6% | 30 | 1.1% | (tie)28 | 1.3% |
| Dayton Hudson Corporation | 2 | 4.7% | 3 | 4.9% | 3 | 5.4% |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | 4.2% | 5 | 3.9% | 8 | 3.6% |
| Texaco | 4 | 4.0% | (tie)31 | 1.0% | (tie)65 | 0.6% |
| Boeing Company | 5 | 3.9% | * | * | 16 | 2.1% |
| Nationwide Insurance Enterprise | 6 | 3.8% | (tie)21 | 1.5% | 1 | 8.6% |
| Washington Mutual | 7 | 3.2% | 10 | 3.1% | n/a | n/a |
| J.C. Penney Company | (tie)8 | 3.0% | 11 | 3.0% | 10 | 3.0% |
| Merck & Company | (tie)8 | 3.0% | 7 | 3.4% | 9 | 3.3% |
| Bristol-Myers Squibb Company | 10 | 2.7% | (tie)15 | 2.0% | (tie)25 | 1.4% |
| McKesson Corporation | 11 | 2.5% | 9 | 3.2% | 19 | 1.7% |
| Georgia-Pacific Corporation | 12 | 2.3% | * | * | n/a | n/a |
| Xerox Corporation | 13 | 2.0% | (tie)54 | 0.7% | (tie)45 | 0.8% |
| US West | 14 | 1.5% | 6 | 3.5% | (tie)12 | 2.5% |
| Fluor Corporation | (tie)15 | 1.4% | 19 | 1.8% | (tie)30 | 1.2% |
| Microsoft Corporation | (tie)15 | 1.4% | (tie)15 | 2.0% | 18 | 1.8% |
| Aetna | (tie)17 | 1.3% | (tie)31 | 1.0% | 4 | 5.2% |
| Wal-Mart Stores | (tie)17 | 1.3% | (tie)28 | 1.2% | 17 | 1.9% |
| Federated Department Stores | (tie)19 | 1.2% | (tie)23 | 1.4% | (tie)23 | 1.5% |
| J.P. Morgan & Company | (tie)19 | 1.2% | (tie)46 | 0.8% | (tie)45 | 0.8% |
| Phillips Petroleum | (tie)19 | 1.2% | (tie)67 | 0.5% | (tie)77 | 0.4% |
| Prudential Insurance Company of America | (tie)19 | 1.2% | (tie)17 | 1.9% | n/a | n/a |
| TRW | (tie)19 | 1.2% | 8 | 3.3% | (tie)5 | 3.8% |
Note: Includes cash, products, and other types of charitable donations.
* Percentage cannot be calculated; company lost money that year.
n/a – not available.
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