The Largest Charitable Gifts WYDE Has Tracked
A running cross-cause ranking of the biggest philanthropic gifts and grants WYDE Newsroom has reported, spanning higher education, health care, hunger relief and conservation.
Updated · 15 gifts
This list pulls together the largest philanthropic commitments WYDE Newsroom has covered, across every cause we track, so the biggest checks of the year can be compared in one place. It draws on the same gifts that appear on our education, health and hunger relief lists.
Dates are when each gift was announced or reported. The ranking updates whenever a new gift is added to the ledger.
| # | Donor | Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ken Griffin | Carnegie Mellon UniversityNew Miami campus ($2 billion) and Pittsburgh priorities including the School of Computer Science ($1 billion) | $3 billion |
| 2 | Michael Bloomberg | Johns Hopkins UniversityUndergraduate financial aid | $1.8 billion |
| 3 | John and Ann Doerr | Stanford UniversityStanford Doerr School of Sustainability | $1.1 billion |
| 4 | Ruth Gottesman | Albert Einstein College of MedicineFree tuition for medical students | $1 billion |
| 5 | Phil and Penny Knight | University of OregonNew Knight College of Engineering | $1 billion |
| 6 | Harold Hamm | University of OklahomaHealth education and research, the diabetes center, and the health campus that will be renamed for Hamm | $150 million |
| 7 | Dean Weidner (estate) | EvergreenHealthPlanning for a new patient-care tower on EvergreenHealth's Kirkland campus; the largest gift in the public hospital district's history | $100 million |
| 8 | Publix Super Markets Charities | More than 350 food banks and nonprofits in the SoutheastHunger Action Month donation, including 43 Feeding America partner food banks | $25 million |
| 9 | Richard Levy | Dartmouth HealthLaunching Dartmouth Health at Home, which brings primary and palliative care into patients' homes, and a Family Caregiver Institute | $20 million |
| 10 | Walmart | Feeding AmericaFood bank equipment, storage, transportation and technology, expected to help rescue 500 million pounds of food over 18 months | $15 million |
| 11 | Bank of America | Boston Children's HospitalConstruction of a new pediatric psychiatric campus at the Franciscan Children's site in Brighton, part of a $640 million project | $10 million |
| 12 | Bank of America | Boston Children's HospitalHelp build a new pediatric behavioral health campus at Franciscan Children's in Brighton | $10 million |
| 13 | DataPhilanthropy (Jeff Green) | Food Share of Ventura CountyLead gift in a $50 million campaign for a new food bank facility | $8.5 million |
| 14 | Action Initiative Team | OceanaUnrestricted grant from the America's Favorite Couple competition for ocean conservation | $1.3 million |
| 15 | Action Initiative Team | Los Angeles Regional Food BankUnrestricted grant from the America's Favorite Couple competition for hunger relief | $1.3 million |
This list covers gifts WYDE Newsroom has reported on or verified against a primary source. It is not a complete census.