Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most
generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares
of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley
nonprofit in December.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy says Zuckerberg's donation
was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young
couple at the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most generous Americans
in 2013. The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7
billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion.
The Chronicle's editor says the most significant fact from
the list was the amount of money coming from living donors, which totaled about
the same amount as the two previous years combined. "It's a sure sign that
the economy is getting better and people are getting a lot less cautious,"
she says. Ten of the 50 made the list because of bequests after their deaths,
including the second biggest giver in 2013, Texas oil tycoon George Mitchell.
At No. 3 were Nike chairman Philip Knight and his wife, Penelope, who made a
$500 million challenge grant to Oregon Health & Science University
Foundation for cancer research.
No comments:
Post a Comment