Giving
| samaritan | foundation | effort | amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abigail Johnson | Fidelity Investments | Abigail Johnson and her family have given anonymously to Boston area charities anonymously. Boston’s Seaport Hotel, owned by Fidelity, has made free hotel rooms available to medical professionals treating covid-19 patients, and the hotel’s kitchen has partnered with a Boston food bank to provide hundreds of meals daily for those in need. | |
| Bill Gates | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | 300 million | 300 million |
| Carl Icahn | Foundation for Greater Opportunity | Started with a $3 million donation to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. The remaining $18 million will be managed through “The Foundation for Greater Opportunity”. Already gave $2.5 million to the Robin Hood Foundation, which works to fight poverty in New York. | More than 21 millions |
| Charles Butt and family | Howard E. Butt ( Charles Butt father) | $3 million in covid-19 giving, which includes $1.2 million for food banks and $300,000 supporting coronavirus research at the Texas Biomedical Research Institute | 3 million |
| Charles Koch | Stand Together | Raised $50 million, which was distributed to 87,000 individuals and families affected by the pandemic | 50 million |
| David & Julia Koch | Contributions to New York-Presbyterian Hospital, research and education, New York and food banks. | ||
| David & Julia Koch | David Koch Foundation | Koch gave $4 million to WGBH’s “Nova” for programming about covid-19. | 4 million |
| David Tepper | David A. Tepper Foundation | $22 million to efforts including Feeding America and Blue Meridian, which is providing direct cash assistance to those in need. Tepper’s foundation has also paid for mobile hotspots with prepaid Internet service for schools in Charlotte, where the Panthers are located. | 22 million |
| Donald Newhouse | Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation | $1 million donation to the World Health Organization | More than 1 million |
| Dustin Moskovitz & Cari Tuna | Open Philanthropy foundation | Moskovitz and Tuna have given $22.5 million to covid-19 relief efforts, including nearly $1.8 million to Harvard for research on serological tests, $627,000 to the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for research on covid-19 testing, and $175,000 to the University of California at Davis for research on antiviral drugs. | 22.5 million |
| Elon Musk | 1,000 much-needed ventilators to hospitals and then convert his workforce to produce more | ||
| Eric Schmidt | Schmidt Futures | Funding medical support, personal protective equipment and educational resources for at-risk communities in America and Africa | Committed tens of millions of dollars |
| Gordon Moore | Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation | Yearly outlay of 315 millon. Funds a variety of organizations and projects in science, environmental conservation and health care | 315 million |
| Hank and Doug Meijer | Meijer, Midwestern chain of supermarkets | Spent $9.4 million on covid-19 relief efforts, including $2.2 million to food pantries and $4 million to the United Way. | 9.4 million |
| Jack Dorsey | A billon dollar equity from Square | 1 Billion | |
| Jeff Bezos | 125 million | 125 million | |
| John and Jacqueline Mars | Mars, Inc. | $20 million in cash and in-kind donation from their company to support the communities most affected by covid-19, including $5 million to CARE for supplies in the developing world for women, children and refugees, $2 million to the United Nations’ World Food Program, and $12 million to local communities. | 20 million |
| John and Jacqueline Mars ( Mars Foundation ) | Mars, Inc. | The Mars Foundation has donated $500,000 to the Capital Area Food Bank | 50,000 |
| Ken Griffin | Citadel | Bought medical supplies for workers in China’s Hubei province, where the pandemic began; food for needy people in Chicago, where Citadel is headquartered; and research on the virus at medical facilities including Weill Cornell Medicine, Rockefeller University and Imperial College London. | More than 20 million |
| Lachlan Murdoch | Murdoch Children’s Research Institute in Australia | 700 Thousand | |
| Laurene Powell Jobs | Emerson Collective | America’s Food Fund, FastGrants, the California Immigration Resilience Fund and the World Health Organization. | |
| Len Blavatnik | Blavatnik Family Foundation | Blavatnik’s foundation donated $7 million for protective equipment and ventilators for hospitals in New York, Connecticut and London and assistance for at-need Jewish communities in New York and London | 7 million |
| MacKenzie Bezos | MacKenzie Bezos & Blue Meridian Partners | Blue Meridian Partners’ $100 million covid-19 emergency relief fund | 100 million |
| Mark Zuckerberg | 100 million | 100 million | |
| Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan | Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative | 58 million | 58 million |
| Michael Dell | Dell and his wife, Susan, donated $100 million: $20 million to the Gates Foundation for its treatment research and $80 million for health care, education and small businesses at the community level. | 20 million | |
| Michael Dell ( Dell Match Program ) | Dell Match Program ( Dell Computers ) | Through the Dell match program, the company is matching every employee donation up to $10,000 per employee per year to several covid-19 relief funds | |
| Mike Bloomberg | Bloomberg Philanthropies | Prevention and mitigation strategies, partnering with organizations including the World Health Organization, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors | 75 million |
| Phil Knight ( Nike ) | Nike | Nike donated $15 million in aid and footwear for health care workers in the United States and Europe | 15 million |
| Phil Knight ( Nike ) | Phil Knight personally donated $10 million to Oregon-based organizations: $7 million to Oregon Health & Science University for a statewide response to the pandemic, $1 million to local food banks and $2 million to recovery fund of the Oregon Community Foundation | 10 million | |
| Pierre Omidyar | Democracy Fund, Flourish, Imaginable Futures | Omidyar’s Democracy Fund plans to spend at least $1.5 million supporting local journalism organizations impacted by crashing advertising revenue. Flourish has given $1 million to the Project 100 initiative, which is seeking to raise $100 million to get $1,000 cash payments to 100,000 struggling American families. And Imaginable Futures plans to spend more than $3 million in the United States, Africa and Latin America on child care for essential workers, as well as educational ventures. | More than 18 millions |
| Ray Dalio | 100 million | 100 million | |
| Sheldon Adelson | Las Vegas Sands | $250,000 to food banks in Las Vegas | 250, 000 |
| Sheldon Adelson | Las Vegas Sands | Las Vegas Sands has donated more than $2 million in cash and in-kind donations, including 2 million masks and 20,000 protective suits to first responders and medical worker around the nation | 2 million |
| Stanley Kroenke | Stanley and Josh Kroenke | Given more than $2 million to covid-19 relief efforts through his foundation, including $1 million to Nashville’s covid-19 response fund. Frist’s foundation has also given $1 million to an employee assistance fund at HCA Healthcare, and $400,000 to other covid-19 relief efforts. | 500 thousand |
| Stephen Schwarzman | Blackstone | Given $15 million to covid-19 relief efforts. $10 million to first responders and health care workers in New York and $5 million to several organizations providing food to New Yorkers in need. | 15 millon |
| Steve and Connie Ballmer | Ballmer Group Philanthropy | 35 millon in capital to community-based lenders to help local nonprofits access federal Paycheck Protection Program loans | 35 million |
| Steve and Connie Ballmer | Ballmer Group Philanthropy | 40 million to Detroit, Los Angeles, and Seattle | 40 million |
| Steven Cohen | Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation | The Cohens plan to give $1 million each to UCLA and the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai for covid-19 research, and hundreds of thousands to food banks in Connecticut, Louisiana, Texas and elsewhere. | More than 6 millions |
| Thomas Frist Jr. and family | Hospital Corporation of America ( Bill Frist and Thomas Frist Jr) | Given more than $2 million to covid-19 relief efforts through his foundation, including $1 million to Nashville’s covid-19 response fund. Frist’s foundation has also given $1 million to an employee assistance fund at HCA Healthcare, and $400,000 to other covid-19 relief efforts. | 3.4 million |
| Thomas Peterffy | Interactive Brokers | Feeding America and the Gates Foundation | 5 millon |
| Waltons — Jim, Alice, Rob, Lukas and Christy | Walmart Foundation | $25 million donation for organizations coping with the virus: $10 million to food banks, $10 million to local communities and $5 million to prevention and detection | 25 million |
Cheers Up
Cheers up to these generous men and women.
Notable Mention
- Microsoft
- Bill & Melinda Gates
- Steve Balmer
- Amazon & Washington Post
- Jeff Bezos
- MacKenzie Bezos
- Twitter
- Jack Dorsey
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