San Jose, CA

Lorry Lokey’s gift to Silicon Valley Community Foundation

At 82 years of age Lokey has a marvelous legacy of charitable support.

Lokey is on the board of trustees for Santa Clara University, Bellarmine College Preparatory in San Jose, the University of Oregon Foundation, the Leo Baeck School in Haifa, Israel and Mills College in Oakland. He is also a member of the board of governors of the Peninsula Jewish Community Center and the San Francisco Opera Association

$110 million

Chicago, IL

Loyola University Chicago historic gift from John Cuneo, Jr., his wife, Herta, and the Cuneo Foundation

The gift includes the Cuneo Museum and Gardens in Vernon Hills, Illinois, its nearly 100 surrounding acres, an extensive collection of art and furnishings, and an in-kind distribution of funds

$50 million

Encinatas, CA

A gfit from the Leichtag Family Foundation in honor of Lee and Toni Leichtag to Scripps Memorial Hospital

$10 million

Indianapolis, IN

Indianapolis Parks Foundation received a grant from the Lily Endowment, the largest grant the foundation has ever received

$7.3 million

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona's Eller College of Management gift from three foundations

The Emerald Foundation has established the Frances McClelland Chair in Accounting, the Tyler family has established the Tyler Family Endowed Chair in Finance and the Cottrell Foundation has established the Munsinger Chair in Entrepreneurship and Innovation

$4.5 million

Los Angeles, CA

Bank of America Charitable Foundation announced its 2009 grants to California nonprofits was over $4 million

$4.3 million

Fort Wayne, IN

Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri will split equally an estate gift from Thelma O. Pietsch of Texas, for student aid

$2.48 million

Fort Wayne, IN

Community Partnerships Inc. grant to Ivy Tech Community College to support the  Advanced Manufacturing program

$2.2 million

Bloomington, IN

Indiana Historical Society gift from Lilly Endowment to support its current campaign

$2 million

Kingston, NY

Raymond A. Rich, who owned the Payne Mansion, a 60-acre riverfront estate in Esopus also known as Omega and Wiltwick, has left and estate gift to the Benedictine Health Foundation;

Marist College in Poughkeepsie announced in September that Rich had bequeathed the Esopus estate, valued at about $65 million

$1.2 million

Minneapolis, MN

Target gift to of more than $1.25 million in cash and in-kind gifts to the Salvation Army annual holiday fundraising

Target and Hasbro announced a new cause marketing program running between December 6 to 12 with proceeds going to the Salvation Army

$1.25 million

Jupiter, FL

Gift from nursing home developer Elizabeth Fago to Scripps Institute for their campaign

$1 million

Saint Peter, MN

Gustavus Adolphus College announced a commitment  from the Greater Gustavus Fund

$1 million

Baltimore, MD

Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker gift to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, OrchKids program

$1 million

Dallas, TX

The ACE Community Fund and the company’s customers gift to the March of Dimes

$685,125

Fort Collins, CO

Winter grants from the Bohemian Foundation's Pharos Fund will provide funds for 37 Fort Collins area nonprofits

$546,177

Tucson, AZ

University of Arizona’s 'Living with Hearing Loss' Program received two pledges of $25,000 per year for 10 years each

Donors were James S. & Dyan Pignatelli and the UniSource Corp.

$500,000

Hershey, PA

Eleven Pennsylvania Public Schools share a grant from Verizon Foundation

$150,000

San Diego, CA

The Escondido Charitable Foundation, an affiliate of The San Diego Foundation, awarded $61,000 to four nonprofits for their work in the areas of math and science education.

Recipients included: Bernardo Elementary School, Escondido Union High School District, Escondido Education Foundation and Grace Lutheran Church and School

$61,000

Fort Morgan, CO

The Dahms-Talton Foundation grant to the Morgan Community College Foundation to support the Glenn Miller Music Project

$10,000

Bangor, ME

Machias Savings Bank gift to the University of Maine Art Museum

$7,500

Baltimore, MD

Univ Maryland named the Turtle Smith Baseball Stadium for 7 figure gift from Bob “Turtle” Smith and his wife Carol

Private Gift

International

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

David Cynamon and Howard Sokolowski gave notice that their families have made a joint to the Jewish Community Center, in honor of the gift the Cynamon/Sokolowski Sports Complex was named

$5 million

Wairarapa District , New Zealand

Margaret Heaney has made good on her promise to gift the Wairarapa District Health Board a new ambulance after sharing a $36.9 million lottery ticket

$1 million