Karen Lewis holds a press conference after Chicago Teachers Union delegates voted to end their 2012 strike. Former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin speaks at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2015. These 25 philanthropists are a collective $150 billion richer than they were a year ago, up 18% each on average. DellaPergola includes Jews of no religion in these figures only if they have two Jewish parents. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. 13 Sheldon Adelson No. David, former executive vice president of Koch Industries and Charles Koch's younger brother, was also a major donor to his alma maters, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Deerfield Academy. 2023 jewish telegraphic agency all rights reserved. * World's richest Jews on forbes list. To that end, we also do not include gifts that have been pledged but not yet paid out, or money given to donor-advised fundsopaque tax advantaged accounts that have neither disclosure nor distribution requirementsunless the giver shared details about the grants that were actually paid. The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie gave more than $53 million to Covid-19 relief efforts in 2020, ranging from vaccine testing to food banks to students in need. She died in January at 85. His research got former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim permanently uninvited from the United States. So far, Scott has distributed at least $8.6 billion in less than two years to 780-plus organizations, focusing on causes including racial justice, gender equality and public health. In a year also marked by turbulent politics, someincluding Zuckerberg and investor George Soroshave put big money behind pro-Democracy causes. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.. He died in August at 91. In less than one year as a publicly active philanthropist, she has given away more than what all but five of the countrys biggest givers have in their entire lifetimes, Forbes calculates. Business deals are then scrutinized and estimates of valuable assets (land, homes, vehicles, artwork, etc.) Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. After drawing criticism for her lack of transparency, Scott said she would share more information and disclosed that she is launching a website with a searchable database of gifts. She died in November, aged 91. Amid the pandemic, many of Americas great philanthropists have opened their wallets to help halt the spread of Covid-19 and lessen its impact. Jews made up around 20 per cent of the 104-strong rich-list with a combined. Petro Poroshenko holds the 6th spot with a whopping net worth of $1.6 billion. Ed Asner at rehearsals for the Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif., Sept. 9, 1979. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images). Tech billionaire has Larry Ellison donated at least $30 million to the organization since 2021, according to federal filings. Forbes has bumped its lifetime giving estimate for the Nike cofounder by $1.9 billion since January 2021, due primarily to new information about the pace at which hes paying out more than $2.5 billion in pledges to three universities: the University of Oregon, where he cofounded the sportswear giant with his track coach; Oregon Health & Science University; and Stanford University, where he got his MBA. Sanford has also given $150 million to La Jolla, California-based National University, and pledged another $350 million in donations in 2019. Director Joan Micklin Silver was most famous for telling two love Jewish stories of New Yorks Lower East Side, straddling both ends of the 20th century: Hester Street, almost entirely in Yiddish, was about a marriage of immigrants, and Crossing Delancey, made and set in the 1980s, was about a Jewish courtship involving a pickle seller. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The foundation's largest sum in 2021$51.2 million in totalwent to the Malaria Consortium, which aims to manage and control the disease in Africa and Asia. Using data from the 2020 Pew Research Center survey, Hebrew University demographer Sergio DellaPergola estimates the "core" Jewish population in the United States to be slightly more than 6 million, including 4.8 million adults and 1.2 million children. At $25 million, he was the largest donor to Donald Trumps successful 2016 presidential bid and the biggest giver in the 2012 American election cycle, at nearly $93 million. He would go on to win an Emmy Award for his work on the sitcom, and another for playing the same character on a spinoff, becoming the only actor to win Emmys for playing the same character on two shows. Performance & security by Cloudflare. Hi-Tech billionaire Erel Margalit's publicist disseminated his speech before the protesters that . Luminate, the Groups citizen engagement armwhich has doled out nearly $400 million since its launchincreased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June. According to Israeli daily business newspaper TheMarker, Israel has seventy-one billionaires as of 2021, with one of the highest per capita rates in the world, at 6.7 billionaires for every million people. Please use Chrome, Safari, Firefox, or Edge to view this site. The influential New Yorker writer Janet Malcolm, hailed as one of the 20th centurys pioneers of New Journalism, didnt know she was Jewish until she was called an antisemitic slur in elementary school. Her. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. The group owns much of London's. The widow of industrialist David Koch (d. 2019) has focused much of her giving on medical and art causes. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. 16. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums. Other big donations: a $500 million pledge to a small liberal arts college by George Soros, a $3.4 billion initiative over ten years from Mark Zuckerberg to measure and analyze biological processes in the human body and a $5 billion, ten-year pledge toward biodiversity conservation by a handful of groups, include three top givers: Bezos, Michael Bloomberg and Gordon and Betty Moore. Jewish billionaires. The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rather gratitude, Buffett said in 2010 when establishing The Giving Pledgean initiative aimed at convincing the worlds billionaires to donate at least half their fortunes to charityalongside the Gateses. But it wasnt written until 1983, when Jagoda was 60 years old. There are a number of folks on this list below that we were unsure about, and they are denoted with asterisks. This is a BETA experience. Ioneer, for example,. So far, hes donated more than $40 billionmuch of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where its being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. * Biography of world's richest Jews. However, not all of them permanently reside in Israel. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police. Theyve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes. During the Covid-19 pandemic, Omidyar and his wife donated more than $10 million to help address the impact of the crisis, including a $1 million donation in Hawaii, where they reside. Hes spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bren is the richest real estate baron in the U.S., with a property empire concentrated in Southern California. * Famous Jews. I just loved the language and the way the words sounded, he said. (Not to be outdone, Ronald donated his collection of European arms and armour to the Met in 2020. This year the lowest ranked on the list has $960 million. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett. With his trademark suspenders and oversized glasses, King was a gentle presence on the air, known for asking open-ended questions and letting his interviewees respond at length. In 2020, theretired home building and insurance tycoonand his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supportedCovid-19 testing for college students andvoter education andoutreach across the country. Brin was worth $15.9 billion last year and is now worth $15.3. But that figure is dwarfed by the $400 million that CZI donated to nonpartisan organizations to ensure voters could cast their ballots safely and securely, according to Zuckerberg and Chans annual letter. Few people have exerted as significant an influence on American and Israeli politics as Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate who gave lavishly to Republican candidates and Israeli causes. After being ranked the third wealthiest American in 2007, and publicly stating that he wanted to overtake Warren Buffet, who was then rnaked second on the Forbes 400, Adelson watched his personal wealth drop by $13 billion in 2007, then another $4 billion for this ranking. The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie reported giving more than $400 million to nonprofits in 2021, pushing their lifetime total above $2.1 billion. Thats up from $149 billion last year, partly due to new information uncovered by Forbesbut mostly due to another year of huge giving by these 25 mega-donors. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. are made. To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. A widely-covered seven-day strike in 2012 transformed Lewis into a public figure, and she briefly contemplated running for mayor of Chicago. Larry King during an interview with Ross Perot in 1993. Leer en espaol. He was also a leading supporter of Birthright Israel, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Zionist Organization of America, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Israel American Council. He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. Flory Jagodas Ocho Kandelikas, a Ladino Hanukkah song, has become a holiday favorite widely covered by other artists. @JVPPhilly built a sukkah on the private lawn of an American Jewish billionaire who foots the bill for illegal Israeli settlement expansion in Palestine. arrow_forward. 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