Chronicle of Philanthropy, the ranking of the ten most “generous” donations of 2021
Billion dollar donations and where to find them. Bill Gates And Melinda French Gates made the largest single donation of 2021 with a donation of 15 billion dollars to their homonymous private foundation “Bill and Melinda Gates“. This, therefore, the first place in the ranking of Chronicle of Philanthropy on the biggest pecuniary gifts of 2021.
Donations, Soros appears after the Gates
In second place, after that of the former spouses Gates, we find two donations of 500 million dollars: one from the Nike, precisely from its co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny at the University of Oregon, and the other by George Soros, through his Open Society Foundation, to the Bard College.
The podium is closed by a $ 480 million gift to the Northwestern University from Patrick Ryan, founder of the insurance brokerage agency Ryan Specialty Group, along with his wife. The donation, according to the university itself, is the largest in the history of Northwestern.
Chronicle of Philanthropy, the Bezos among the most “generous” of 2021
The $ 200 million from Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon to the National Air and Space Museum, and a $ 166 million gift from the parents of Bezos to the NYU Langone Hospital Brooklyn.
Higher education And health care they are often among the leading charitable causes for the wealthiest families. But the ranking of the Chronicle He is keen to point out that he only mentions the donations that the donors have announced publicly. Other money may have been donated anonymously or through vehicles that conceal the identity of the donors.
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