Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon and a major member of the mondo, the mayor of the donation in 2020, a donation of 10,000 million of the goal of the ayudar and a combat officer of the championship, the report of ‘ a public specialization.
Bezos cuyo personal value ascending to 188,000 million dollars following the Forbes review, made its huge contribution to launch the Bezos Earth Fund, reported the specialized publication Chronicle of Philanthropy.
The Bezos Earth Fund finances groups without fines that participate in the defense of the mid-environment and have currently donated 790 million dollars to 16 organizations, according to the Chronicle.
In contrast to the huge contribution of Bezos, the total of the 10 major charitable donations made over the past year – 2,600 million dollars – was the highest figure since 2011, compared to the many multimillionaires who increased their wealth to the bursary eye in particular. in the technology sector the past year.
According to the Americans for Tax Fairness group at the Institute for Policy Studies, between March 18 and December 7, the wealth of Bezos increased by 63% from 113,000 million to 184,000 million dollars.
Phil Knight, who with his wife Penny fired the authors of the second and third mayor donations following the Chronicle, increased his wealth by 77% during the same period in March and December. Knight and his wife donated more than $ 900 million to the Knight Foundation and $ 300 million to the University of Oregon.
Fred Kummer, founder of the HBE Corporation construction company, and his wife June raised $ 300 million to establish a foundation to support the University of Missouri’s scientific and technological programs.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan donated the mayor’s donation of the year: $ 250 million to the Center for Tech and Civic Life, which helped ensure security in the November elections.
Zuckerberg’s fortune doubled to $ 105,000 in March and December following Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies.
And el quinto renglón está Arthur Blank, co-founder of the Home Depot, did not travel more than 200 million a day to visit a child health care in Atlanta, the para la construcción de un nuevo hospital.
Bezos and the Zuckerberg occupy the following fur fields, each with donations of 100 million dollars: Bezos the donation to Feeding America, an organization that helps the food banks in all countries and the Zuckerberg to the electoral security organization.
Then there is Stephen Ross, founder of the real estate company Verwante Gesellschaft; David Roux, co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, and his wife Barbara; George and Renee Karfunkel, wealthy investment investors; Bernard Marcus, co-founder of Home Depot and Charles Schwab, founder of Schwab Financial Services, and his wife Helen.
Of the multimillionaires who donate large sums of money this past year – MacKenzie Scott, Bezos’ example of Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder – was not included in the Chronicle list because none of his individual donations were sufficiently large.
In February, Chronicle published its list of 50 donors, including the total of donations and no individual contributions.