Cincinnati, Ohio

Ohio arts patron Louise Nippert has donated $75 million to support the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and another $10 million to the city’s opera and ballet companies and other classical-music entities

This is considered to be one of the largest gifts ever to an American symphony

$75,000,000 +
$10,000,000

St. Louis, Missouri

The John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics was established this past week with this gift from the Danforth Foundation to the University of Washington in St. Louis

$30 million

Ann Arbor, Michigan

A gift from the Ted and Jane Von Voigtlander Foundation to the University of Michigan, C.S. Mott Children's and Women's Hospital

The gift adds to a $2-million previous gift from the Von Voigtlanders to the C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and Women's Hospital

$15 million

Encinitas, California

A gift from the Leichtag Family Foundation to Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas

$10 million

Austin, Texas

The St. David's Foundation awarded 30 grants, to local nonprofit organizations that provide health care services

$7.2 million

Peoria, Illinois

OSF Saint Francis Medical Center to name the Rita Northrup pediatric floor when the Milestone campaign is completed. Donation made by Northrup's son-in-law and daughter, Don and Barbara Western of Peoria

$5 million

Charlotte, North Carolina

Every male African American student who graduates from West Charlotte High School will receive a $1,000 college scholarship, thanks to a gift announced Wednesday by C.D. Spangler Jr.

The $2 million to be divided equally among CPCC and the University of North Carolina system

Part of $4 million in grant to education made by the Spanglers

$4 million

Boston, Massachusetts

Challenge grant to Boston College from anonymous donor

$3 million

Hudson Valley, New York

Hudson High School gets a grant for a new football stadium from the Joy and Tom Murdough Foundation

$2 million

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Estate gift from Vivian Ann Hotuiz of Tulsa, Oklahoma to the University of Marquette, School of Nursing, the sole beneficiary in her will

$1.8 million

Raleigh, North Carolina

Estate gift from Gordon and Louise Smith will provide funding for both undergraduate and graduate students at North Carolina State University, School of Engineering

$1.5 million

Modesto, California

E.&J. Gallo Winery has pledged the $1 million gift and John and June Rogers pledged their gift, both to the Gallon Center for the Arts

$1,000,000 +
$500,000

Bismark, North Dakota

North Dakota’s Touchstone Energy Cooperatives have combined to donate to the expansion of the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck.

In honor of their gift, a new gallery featuring traveling exhibits will be named the Touchstone Energy Cooperative Governors Gallery

$1,300,000.00

Waterbury, Connecticut

An anonymous donor made this gift to the Waterbury Symphony

$1 million

New York, NY

Alec Baldwin Drama Scholarship Fund set up with gift from the actor to the Tisch School for the Arts

$1 million

Baltimore, Maryland

Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker gift to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s music education and life-enrichment program, OrchKids

$1 million

Seattle, Washington

A grant from Boeing to the Museum of History & Industry

$500,000.00

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Hill House Association just received a corporate gift from EQT Corporation, the largest gift in the just completed $10 million campaign

$500,000.00

Austin, Texas

A corporate gift to the Veterans of Foreign Wars' Operation Uplink from Sport Clips, the largest single donation made to the organization

$250,000.00

Fort Collins, Colorado

Fort Collins Museum and the Discovery Science Center received a gift from a local couple, John and Nina Bodenhamer towards the joint campaign underway from both nonprofits

$100,000.00

Bakersfield, California

Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kern County, received a gift from Chevron to support CASA, the organization represents children headed for foster care or group homes, and attempts to get them placed in permanent homes, the largest gift ever received

$100,000.00

Bossier City, Louisiana

EnCana Corporation has given Bossier Parish Community College a donation to jump start a new degree and certificate program in oil and gas technology

$100,000.00

Tempe, Arizona

Virginia G. Piper Charitable Trust commitment to Arizona State University Lodestar Center for Philanthropy and Nonprofit Innovation to continue its support for a second year

Private Grant
2^nd Year

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

CIBC proud to announce $3.5 million raised for children's charities

$3,500,000.00

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Toronto actor, Paul Gross, gives his $25,000 award to Remix Project for youth

$25,000.00

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Jean Pare, founder and author of Company's Coming Cookbooks, recently donated her private collection of more than 6,000 cookbooks to the University of Guelph Library’s culinary archives

In-Kind Gift