Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Pierre Omidyar
Lifetime donations: $1 billion
Net worth: $6.2 billion
Generosity Index: 16%
Paris-born, Iranian-American Pierre Omidyar is cofounder and current chairman of eBay.
In 1998, he and his wife, Pamela, established the Omidyar Foundation, an organization that now includes Omidyar Network, HopeLab, Humanity United, and Ulupono Initiative. The organization donates to a diverse range of causes, including entrepreneurship, human rights, food and energy, and games and technology. In 2012, Omidyar and his wife joined the Giving Pledge initiative started by Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, promising to donate most of their wealth to charities.
In August 2015, Omidyar reportedly sold 10% of his shares in eBay to undisclosed charities — a stock gift valued at nearly $270 million.
Source: Wealth-X
Michael Dell
Lifetime donations: $1.1 billion
Net worth: $18.9 billion
Generosity Index: 6%
Michael Dell is the chairman and CEO of Dell computer company. Since 1999, he's been the director of the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, which gives primarily to education, social and human services, arts and culture, and community-development causes.
Earlier this year, the foundation pledged to donate $25 million to fund the construction of a new teaching hospital in Austin, Texas.
Source: Wealth-X
James Simons
Lifetime donations: $1.2 billion
Net worth: $12.3 billion
Generosity Index: 10%
James Simons is chairman of investment-management company Renaissance Technologies, one of the largest and most successful hedge fund companies in the world with $65 billion in assets. Simons served as the company's CEO until retiring in 2009.
Twenty-one years ago, Simons and his wife Marilyn established the Simons Foundation, which primarily supports educational causes. Since then, the couple has founded two additional organizations in memory of their two sons who died in 1996 and 2003: The Paul Simons Foundation gives to social and educational causes, and the Nick Simons Foundation trains rural healthcare workers in Nepal and gives to humanitarian and social causes.
Simons has also donated $30 million to autism research and has pledged to donate $100 million more.
Source: Wealth-X
Ted Turner
Lifetime donations: $1.2 billion
Net worth: $2.1 billion
Generosity Index: 57%
Ted Turner, former CEO of Turner Broadcasting System (TBS) and vice chairman and director of AOL Time Warner, is the current chairman of Turner Enterprises, a diversified holding company.
Turner also serves as trustee of the Turner Global Foundation and chairman of the Turner Foundation, which both donate to community development and environmental and wildlife conservation causes.
The UN Foundation is also a chief recipient of Turner's donations. In 1997 he pledged $1 billion to the foundation, which promotes causes related to women and population, children's health, environment, world peace, and security.
Source: Wealth-X
Jon Huntsman Sr.
Lifetime donations: $1.2 billion
Net worth: $940 million
Generosity Index: 128%
Jon Huntsman Sr. is the founder and executive chairman of Huntsman Corporation, a chemical product manufacturer.
Huntsman has reportedly survived prostate and mouth cancer and, as a result, established the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah. Many of his charitable donations have been to colleges and cancer-research centers. He and his wife also agreed to join Buffett's Giving Pledge, promising to donate 50% of their wealth.
Source: Wealth-X
Li Ka-shing
Lifetime donations: $1.4 billion
Net worth: $26.6 billion
Generosity Index: 5%
Li Ka-shing is a global investor in disruptive technology and one of the richest men in Asia.
In 1980, he established the Li Ka-shing Foundation to support education, healthcare, culture, and community-related causes. The foundation's biggest project to date was funding Shantou University, the only privately funded public university in China. Li has also made personal donations to the China Foundation for Disabled Persons and flood-victim relief in China.
Source: Wealth-X
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