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List of philanthropists

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Herodes Atticus, a Greek philanthropist of Classical Rome active during the second century (antiquity)

A philanthropist is someone who engages in philanthropy; donating their time, money, and/or reputation to charitable causes. The term may apply to any volunteer or to anyone who makes a donation, but the label is most often applied to those who donate large sums of money or who make a major impact through their volunteering, such as a trustee who manages a philanthropic organization or one who establishes and funds a foundation.[1]

A philanthropist may not always find universal approval for their deeds.[2] Common accusations include supporting an unworthy cause (such as funding art instead of fighting world hunger) or having selfish motivation at heart (such as avoiding taxes or attaining personal fame). A philanthropist is also someone who cares for someone else's needs instead of their own.

Notable philanthropists

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  • Hansjörg Wyss – businessman, founder of a medical research and design company Synthes and the Wyss Foundation
  • Harold Osher – American map collector and namesake of the Osher Map Library
  • Helen Phillips Levin – American social worker and disability rights activist, supported grantmaking through her family's Jay and Rose Philips Family Foundation
  • Henry Ford – co-founder of the Ford Foundation
  • Henry W. Bloch – founder of H&R Block Tax company. Henry established the nationally acclaimed Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute, formed the Marion and Henry Bloch Family Foundation one of the largest family foundations in the region (Midwest) and many other places in the Kansas City community
  • Hidiya Hanim BarakatEgyptian philanthropist, helped establish twelve hospitals in Egypt by 1961.
  • Hilmar Reksten – Norwegian shipping magnate, tax evader, patron of the arts
  • Holden Karnofsky – co-founder and board member of the charity evaluator GiveWell and the executive director of the Open Philanthropy Project
  • Howard Ahmanson Jr. – multi-millionaire philanthropist and financier of the causes of many conservative Christian cultural, religious and political organizations
  • Howard Hughes – aviator, engineer, industrialist and film producer; donated US$1.56 billion to various charities including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute

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  • Kenneth C. Griffin – founder and CEO of Citadel LLC; co-founder of the Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation[36]
  • Kumar Mangalam Birla – As per the EdelGive Hurun India Philanthropy List 2021, Kumar Mangalam Birla and his family ranked fourth on the philanthropy list with donations mostly to the healthcare sector.[37]

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MrBeast - Youtuber - Comedian - given, donated at least 6 million dollar - founder of Team Trees and Team Seas

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  • Usher Raymond – singer-songwriter; founding Chairman of the New Look Foundation

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  • Zerbanoo Gifford – founder of the ASHA Foundation. President of the World Zoroastrian Organisation.

Greatest philanthropists by amount of USD

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The following table orders the greatest philanthropists by the estimated amount given to charity, corresponding to USD.

Name Amount given Cause
Ratan Tata $102.4 billion[28] Education, healthcare
Bill Gates $79 billion[63] Healthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology
Warren Buffett $32.1 billion[64] Healthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation
George Soros $32 billion[65] Healthcare, anti-fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform
Azim Premji $221 billion[66] Education, healthcare
MacKenzie Scott $14 billion[67] Racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, functional democracy, and climate change[68]
Michael Bloomberg $12.7 billion[citation needed] Environment, public health, arts, government innovation and education
Li Ka-shing $10.7 billion[citation needed] Education, healthcare
Andrew Carnegie $9.5 billion[citation needed] Libraries, education, peace
Elon Musk $7.6 billion[69] Science education, COVID-19 relief, renewable energy
Chuck Feeney $6.8 billion[citation needed] Healthcare, youth, aging, poverty, human rights
Alisher Usmanov $5.8 billion[70][71] Art, science, sport, healthcare
The Sainsbury family $5 billion[70][71] Art, education, human rights, youth, aging
Christopher Hohn $4.5 billion[72] Youth, poverty, education
Carlos Slim Helu $4.2 billion[72] Arts, education, healthcare, sports, downtown restoration
Alwaleed Philanthropies $4 billion[73] Alwaleed Philanthropies collaborates with a range of philanthropic, government and educational organizations to combat poverty, empower women and youth, develop communities, provide disaster relief and create cultural understanding through education.
The Weston family $2.3 billion[70][71] Innovations, healthcare, aging, environment
Phil Knight $2 billion[74] Education, healthcare, intercollegiate athletics
James E. Stowers $2 billion[75] Healthcare
Hansjoerg Wyss $1.9 billion[72] Climate change, poverty
Howard Hughes $1.56 billion[citation needed] Healthcare
Ted Turner $1 billion[citation needed] United Nations Foundation
Stephan Schmidheiny $1.5 billion[72] Environment, sustainable development
Vitalik Buterin $1 billion[60] Donated $1 billion worth of the cryptocurrencies Shiba Inu and Ether to a COVID-19 relief fund in India.
Michael Jackson $500 Million+ [76][77] Healthcare, poverty, youth, cancer research, education
T. Boone Pickens $500 Million[60] Education

See also

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  77. ^ Jackson donated over 500 million to humanitarian causes during his lifetime. After his death his will states that 20% of his estate's earnings will be donated to charity. [1] By 2019 Jackson had earned a total of 2.4 billion since his death, putting the total including posthumous donations over 1 billion [2]

Further reading

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  • Grimm, Robert T. Notable American Philanthropists: Biographies of Giving and Volunteering (2002) excerpt