Dallas, Texas

Sammons Dallas Foundation donates total of $100 million to Dallas nonprofits:

Baylor Health Care System…………………...$20 million

Methodist Health System…………………..…$20 million

Communities Foundation of Texas…………..$20 million

UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas….$20 million

Salvation Army, Dallas…………………………$15 million

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dallas,
educational trust fund…………………………..$5 million

$100 million

26 cities in USA

The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has promised $70 million to community foundations that serve the 26 cities where the Knight newspapers are found, a seven year program

$70 million

Marian, Ohio

Marian University will now develop Indiana's first college of osteopathic medicine thanks to the gift from an anonymous donor, largest in school history

$30 million

Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Rajawali Foundation, the charitable arm of the PT Rajawali Corporation, made a gift to Harvard to create a new Institute for Asia and an Indonesian program within the Kennedy School’s Ash Center

$20.5 million

Kansas City, KS

The Hall Family Foundation of Kansas City has pledged  to the University of Kansas Cancer Center and the Midwest Cancer Alliance for the cancer center to meet its goal of designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Ctr.

$18 million

Chicago, Illinois

The Kenneth and Anne Griffin Foundation made a gift to the new Children’s Hospital to establish an emergency care center that will be named after the couple

$16 million

Athens, Ohio

Violet L. Patton who graduated in 1938 from Ohio University announced her gift for a new arts education center at the university

$13.3 million

Columbia, South Carolina

Solomon Jackson, Jr., winner of the Powerball Lottery, made a gift to his alma mater, Morris College, from his winnings

$10 million

New Haven, Connecticut

Lei Zhang, a 2002 grad of Yale School of Management and founder of the largest investment fund in China, made this gift for the school’s new campus

$8,888,888

Cortland,
New York

SUNY Cortland alumnus John Fantauzzi '58, now living in Cape Coral, Florida, will bequest this gift to the university a scholarship he set up in 1990

$5.18 million

Los Angeles, California

Television celebrity Bob Barker announced a gift to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which named its new 1,200-ton anti-whaling ship The Bob Barker

$5 million

Tulsa, Okalahoma

University of Tulsa College of Law received a gift  the Chapman Charitable Trusts to establish an endowed chair

$5 million

Provo, Utah

James Lee Sorenson Leadership Pavilion named for a gift from the Sorenson Legacy Foundation including James Lee Sorenson a1975 grad, at Univ. Utah

$4.3 million

Amherst, Massachusetts

National Yiddish Book Center received an unexpected estate gift from comedy writer Mickey Ross

$3 million

Cedar City, Utah

The George S. and Dolores Doré  Eccles Foundation made a gift to Southern Utah University for the construction of a building on campus for the Utah Shakespearean Festival

$3 million

Clemson, Alabama

The Cliffs Communities gift to Clemson includes the financial pledge plus all rights to the Zest Quest program and name to Clemson University

$3 million

Archbold, Ohio

Northwest State Community College has received an estate gift from Francis O. Fackler of Napoleon, Ohio

$2.9 million

Munci, Indiana

Ball Memorial Hospital gets John Fisher’s estate gift, served on the hospital board for 55 years

$2 million

Davis, California

Margaret Mondavi's donation to  UC Davis Art Museum helped to launch the campaign

$2 million

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Moss Rehabilitation Research Institute received a 3 year grant from the James S. McDonnell Foundation

$1.8 million

Little Rock, Arkansas

Dillard's, Inc. announced a gift from the sale of its Southern Living Christmas Cookbook to to Ronald McDonald House Charities

$1.4 million

Hollywood, California

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt donate to Haiti victims of the recent earthquake

$1 million

Boston, Massachusetts

Brandeis University received a three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for experimental research into  active matter

$1 million

Boulder, Colorado

Amgen’s gift to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the new Caruthers Biotechnology Building

$1 million

Rosemead, California

Southern California Edison has launched a Green Jobs Education Initiative to fund “green” education and job training at 10 California community colleges

$1 million

Princeton, New Jersey

JoAnn Heffernan Heisen, a hospital volunteer on campus, made her donation to the new University Medical Center at Princeton for the Infusion Suite in the Center for Cancer Care

$1 million

Indianapolis, Indiana

Lily Foundation announced a grant to St. John's youth ministry program

$875,000

Orlando, Florida

Orlando Magic Youth Fund, a fund of the McCormick Foundation, announced grant to 23 organizations from three counties in Central Florida

$700,000

New York, NY

GE Foundation made a grant to AmeriCares

This is part of GE’s Developing Health program,  3 year, $25 million commitment that provides grant funding and employee engagement to selected healthcare centers across the USA

$650,000

Ann Arbor, Michigan

A grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to the University of Michigan Musical Society

$600,000

Leesburg, Virginia

Thomas Balch Library of History and Genealogy in Leesburg received a bequest from the estate of Virginia L. Bowie

$250,000

North Adams, Massaschusetts

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts received a grant from the Davis Educational Foundation of Falmouth, Maine for a campus wide assessment

$225,000

Chicago, Illinois

Advocate Condell Medical Center received a gift from  Joe Nemmers Sr. of Libetyville, a grateful patient

$100,000

Portland, Oregon

Bienestar, a local non-profit housing provider, received a  grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation

$25,000

Yawkey, Massachusetts

The Hannaford Charitable Foundation made a grant to Special Olympics Massachusetts

$25,000

International

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

BMO Financial Group made a gift to Queen’s University for the expansion of the School of Business

$2 million

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Stanford computer science professor, David Cheriton, a mentor for the founders of Google, made a gift to the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at the University of British Columbia

$2 million

Essex, England

Essex lifeboat station celebrated after it was revealed an anonymous benefactor estate gift

£1 million
( approx. $1.6 million US)