His Open Society Foundations support causes including economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $12 billion into charitable causes, including $1.6 billion over the past year, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun safety and public health. Her husband Ben, an attorney who was handy with gadgets and who died in 2018, quit his job to build the devices that facilitated her masterpieces. Some quick stats: We are reasonably certain that 139 of the richest 400 Americans are Jewish, including 20 of the richest 50. The Oklahoma oil and banking baron is the largest philanthropist in his state. Preliminary surveys are sent to those who may qualify for the list. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic. Why didnt his obituaries say so? Known debt is subtracted from assets to get a final estimate of an individual's estimated worth in United States dollars. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets. 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. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The billions keep piling up for many of Americas great philanthropists. She died in January at 97. In 2009, 139 of the Forbes 400 were Jewish. However, not all of them permanently reside in Israel. In the wake of the January 6 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, and with movements like QAnon on the rise, it's clear that millions across the United States subscribe . Net worths are as of January 18, 2022. Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020, Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. (Si) Newhouse Jr. 4,500 81 New York publishing, 56 Micky Arison 4,300 60 Bal Harbour Carnival Cruises, 61 Ralph Lauren 4,200 70 New York fashion, 65 Lester Crown & family 4,000 84 Wilmette investments, 65 Richard LeFrak & family 4,000 64 New York real estate, 65 Donald Newhouse 4,000 79 Somerset County publishing, 65 Daniel Ziff 4,000 37 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Dirk Ziff 4,000 45 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Robert Ziff 4,000 43 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 77 Henry Kravis 3,800 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 77 Paul Milstein & family 3,800 87 New York Emigrant, real estate, 77 Samuel Zell 3,800 68 Chicago real estate, private equity, 84 Leonard N. Stern 3,600 71 New York real estate, 85 Stanley Druckenmiller 3,500 56 Pittsburgh hedge funds, 85 Bruce Kovner 3,500 64 New York hedge funds, 85 George Roberts 3,500 66 San Francisco leveraged buyouts, 97 Riley P. Bechtel 3,000 57 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. 3,000 84 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Leonard Lauder 3,000 76 New York Estee Lauder, 97 Theodore Lerner 3,000 84 Washington real estate, 97 Steven Spielberg 3,000 62 Pacific Palisades movies, 97 Warren Stephens 3,000 52 Little Rock Stephens Inc. **, 97 David Tepper 3,000 52 Milburn hedge funds, 110 Stephen Ross 2,900 69 New York real estate, 113 Daniel Och 2,800 48 New York hedge funds, 113 Haim Saban 2,800 65 Beverly Hills television, 123 Edgar M. Bronfman 2,500 80 New York liquor, 123 Ronald Lauder 2,500 65 New York Estee Lauder, 123 Mitchell Rales 2,500 53 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 Steven Rales 2,500 58 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 David Rubenstein 2,500 60 Bethesda leveraged buyouts, 139 Mark Cuban 2,400 51 Dallas Broadcast.com, 139 Malcolm Glazer & family 2,400 81 Palm Beach sports teams, real estate, 141 Steve Wynn 2,300 67 Las Vegas casinos, hotels **, 147 Tom Gores 2,200 45 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 147 Bruce Wasserstein 2,200 61 New York Wasserstein Perella, Lazard, 158 Nicolas Berggruen 2,000 48 New York Investments, 158 Leon Black 2,000 58 New York leveraged buyouts, 158 William Gross 2,000 65 Laguna Beach bonds **, 158 Michael Milken 2,000 63 Los Angeles investments, 158 Sumner Redstone 2,000 86 Beverly Hills Viacom, 158 Leslie Wexner 2,000 72 New Albany Limited Brands, 158 Mark Zuckerberg 2,000 25 Palo Alto Facebook, 183 Stewart Rahr 1,950 63 New York Kinray, 193 Alan Casden 1,850 63 Beverly Hills real estate, 196 Thomas Pritzker 1,800 59 Chicago hotels, investments, 196 Jerry Speyer 1,800 69 New York real estate, 204 Israel Englander 1,700 61 New York hedge funds, 204 Penny Pritzker 1,700 50 Chicago hotels, investments, 204 Sheldon Solow 1,700 81 New York real estate, 212 Robert Friedland 1,650 59 Singapore mining, 212 Henry Samueli 1,650 55 Newport Beach Broadcom, 220 Thomas Friedkin 1,600 74 Houston Gulf States Toyota, 220 Alec Gores 1,600 56 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 220 Irwin Jacobs 1,600 76 La Jolla Qualcomm, 220 Anthony Pritzker 1,600 48 Los Angeles hotels, investments, 220 Jay Robert Pritzker 1,600 44 Evanston hotels, investments, 230 John Morgridge 1,550 76 Portola Valley Cisco ** (NETA with Jewish Agency), 230 Isaac Perlmutter 1,550 67 Palm Beach Marvel, 236 Neil Bluhm 1,500 71 Chicago real estate, 236 Robert Kraft 1,500 68 Brookline New England Patriots, 236 Stephen Mandel 1,500 53 Greenwich hedge funds, 236 Daniel Pritzker 1,500 50 Marin County hotels, investments, 236 James Pritzker 1,500 58 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker 1,500 47 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 John Pritzker 1,500 56 San Francisco hotels, investments, 236 Karen Pritzker 1,500 51 New Haven hotels, investments, 236 Linda Pritzker 1,500 55 St. Ignatius hotels, investments, 236 Marc Rich 1,500 74 Meggen commodities, 236 Lynn Schusterman 1,500 70 Tulsa oil & gas, investments, 236 John Sperling 1,500 88 Phoenix Apollo Group, 236 Mortimer Zuckerman 1,500 72 New York real estate, media, 272 George Lindemann & family 1,450 73 Palm Beach investments, 272 Bernard Marcus 1,450 80 Atlanta Home Depot, 277 S. Daniel Abraham 1,400 85 Palm Beach Slim-Fast, 277 John Arrillaga 1,400 72 Palo Alto real estate, 277 Alfred Mann 1,400 83 Los Angeles medical devices, 277 Michael Moritz 1,400 55 Mountain View venture capital, 277 Michael Price 1,400 57 Far Hills investments, 277 Tamir Sapir 1,400 62 New York real estate, 277 Alfred Taubman 1,400 85 Bloomfield Hills real estate, 289 Ken Fisher 1,350 58 Woodside Money management **, 289 David Gottesman 1,350 83 Rye investments, 289 Marc Lasry 1,350 49 New York hedge funds (92nd Street Y), 296 Edmund Ansin 1,300 73 Miami Sunbeam Broadcasting, 296 Ron Baron 1,300 66 New York money management, 296 Leon Charney 1,300 68 New York Real estate, 296 Glenn Dubin 1,300 52 New York hedge funds, 296 Donald Fisher 1,300 81 San Francisco Gap, 296 Doris Fisher 1,300 78 San Francisco Gap, 296 Jeremy Jacobs Sr. 1,300 69 East Aurora sports concessions, 296 Gary Michelson 1,300 60 Los Angeles medical patents, 317 Arthur Blank 1,250 67 Atlanta Home Depot, 317 Jeffrey Greene 1,250 54 Miami Beach real estate, investments, 317 Thomas H. Lee 1,250 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 317 Herbert Simon 1,250 74 Indianapolis real estate, 317 Peter Sperling 1,250 49 Phoenix Apollo Group, 326 John E. Abele 1,200 72 Shelburne healthcare **, 326 Norman Braman 1,200 77 Miami art, car dealerships, 326 John Fisher 1,200 48 San Francisco Gap, 326 Nicholas Pritzker 1,200 65 Chicago hotels, investments, 326 Alexander Rovt 1,200 57 Brooklyn fertilizer, 326 Margaret Whitman 1,200 53 Atherton Ebay, 341 Leon Cooperman 1,150 66 Short Hills hedge funds, 341 Barry Diller 1,150 67 New York IAC/InterActiveCorp, 341 Joseph Mansueto 1,150 53 Chicago Morningstar **, 347 Marc Benioff 1,100 45 San Francisco Salesforce.com, 347 A. James Clark 1,100 81 Easton Construction **, 347 Robert Fisher 1,100 56 San Francisco Gap, 347 Alan Gerry 1,100 80 Liberty cable television**, 347 James Irsay 1,100 50 Carmel Indianapolis Colts (Father, Bob was Jewish), 347 Michael Krasny 1,100 56 Highland Park CDW Corp 3, 347 Daniel Snyder 1,100 44 Potomac Washington Redskins, 347 Henry Swieca 1,100 52 New York hedge funds, 366 Peter Lewis 1,050 75 Coconut Grove Progressive Corp, 366 Nelson Peltz 1,050 67 Bedford Investments, 371 William Fisher 1,000 52 San Francisco Gap, 371 Pincus Green 1,000 74 Jerusalem commodities, 371 Jeffry Picower 1,000 67 Palm Beach investments, 371 Steven Schonfeld 1,000 50 Westbury Proprietary Trading, 371 Walter Shorenstein & family 1,000 94 San Francisco real estate, 371 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler 1,000 45 London Millhouse LLC, 371 Charles Zegar 1,000 61 New York Bloomberg LP, 394 Jeffrey Lurie 980 58 Haverford Philadelphia Eagles, 396 Nancy Lerner 960 49 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Norma Lerner 960 73 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Randolph Lerner 960 47 Cleveland inheritance, list of the countrys 400 richest citizens, Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. 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. Levin died in July at 87. 11 Larry Page No. 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. Ed Asner at rehearsals for the Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, Calif., Sept. 9, 1979. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. 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. (Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images). Jews also comprise a very large number of history's most important figures, people who have had a profound . In July and December, she announced a total of $5.8 billion in grants to 500 different groups across the country. His estimated net worth is $500 million. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. 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. Her Hollywood ambitions were curtailed in part because of the Jewishness of her content, but also because of the challenges of being a female director in a sexist industry. Billionaires Who Championed Trump Have Now Gone Largely Quiet Of two-dozen wealthy Trump supporters, few had anything to say Stephen Schwarzman, Ronald Lauder condemned the violence A "Trump. The ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos doesn't have a website and doesn't talk publicly about her philanthropybut has been using the blogging site to chronicle her efforts to give away her massive post-divorce fortune at a faster pace than any billionaire ever. While the U.N. cannot directly raise money from philanthropists, the U.N. Foundation canusing the funds to support the intergovernmental organizations peacekeeping, public health and environmental activities across the world. In December, Scott revealed she had given nearly $4.2 billion to 384 organizations across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. Scotts team paid special attention to nonprofits addressing food insecurity, racial inequity and decreasing poverty. When Scott publishes an update on Medium, the nonprofit world pays attention. 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. Lynn Schustermans Samson Resources lost $1 billion over the past year, according to Forbes, but Schusterman is still worth $1.5 billion and 236 on the Forbes list. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. They include Tom Steyer, No. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. "I think Tim is really good at raising money," said Chad Walldorf,. It does feel a bit good, she said in 2011. In November 2021, the Austin-based foundation announced a $38 million pledge to address homelessness in Austin. Over the coming months, well be taking a deeper look at how each of these people give their money away. Turners own namesake foundation is focused on environmental protection, which he views as "an effort to ensure the survival of the human species.". ". Norton Juster at home in Massachusetts. And those 21 don't include Israel's richest person. In absolute numbers, the 2020 Jewish population estimate is approximately 7.5 million, including 5.8 million adults and 1.8 million children (rounded to the closest 100,000). And it pledged $100 million over 10 years to close the gap in college graduation rates across income levels at the University of Texas at Austin, where Dell sold computers out of his dorm room before dropping out at age 19. (Jeffrey Markowitz/Sygma via Getty Images). He made headlines last year after his civic engagement organization Luminate helped Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen with press and government relations. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundationand are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. Why didnt his obituaries say so? Their main philanthropic vehicle, the Omidyar Network, funds the Open Markets Institute and Public Knowledge, nonprofits that advocate for stronger antitrust laws and are critical of Big Tech. Ioneer, for example,. George Segals long career, stretching from the 1960s to this decade, started with troubled heartthrob roles many of them explicitly Jewish. She died in February at 67 from brain cancer. No one has given more than MacKenzie Scott, who has taken the philanthropy world by storm since finalizing her divorce from Jeff Bezos in 2019. Robertson has established a handful of other charitable foundations, including the Tiger Foundation, the Aotearoa and the Blanche and Julian Robertson Family Foundation. The former billionaire has given away virtually all of his fortune as part of a lofty goal to die broke. * Finance state of the richest Jews. Besides a 2018 essay in which she delved into this family history, Malcolm who had married fellow writer Donald Malcolm in the 1950s did not tackle Jewish topics, and instead often delved into the world of psychoanalysis and the journalism process. He was also known as a relentless inquisitor. But those who we considered Jewish were those who were of Jewish descent or those who openly identified as Jews either personally or in thier giving. Our estimates factor in the total lifetime giving of American billionaires, measured in dollars given to charitable recipientsin other words, we are not including money parked in a foundation that has yet to do any good. Jessica Walter at the premiere of Season 5 of Arrested Development in Los Angeles, May 17, 2018. "Find a way to give poor kids the same cognitive stimulus that rich kids receive and they should end up with the same tools for success.". He fulfilled his big U.N. pledge in 2014. * Consistent experience training athletes at the Jr Nat / Olympic Trial level 540-792-2020-or- 412-298-3432. . This is a list of individuals and couples who are U.S. citizens; as a result, we excluded extended families like the Waltons, controlling shareholders of Walmart, and excluded big givers like Hansjoerg Wyss, who lives in the U.S. but is a Swiss citizen. Job specializations: Sports/Fitness/Wellness. DellaPergola includes Jews of no religion in these figures only if they have two Jewish parents. The wealthiest. Finally, positions in a publicly traded stock are priced to market on a date roughly a month before publication. Recipients included both disrupted schools and individuals in need of direct cash assistance. Wealth: $4.6 Billion Industry: Property Born: UK Charles Cadogan, the 8th Earl of Cadogan, is the head of the Cadogan Group, one of the biggest landowners in London. The Facebook founder and CEO celebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org. The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of Californias Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. 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. The price of admission onto the 29th Rich List was a staggering $1 billion, and, not surprisingly as far as minorities go, at least Jews took excelled. In 2021, the Moore foundation awarded nearly $350 million in grants. Although she feuded bitterly with Mayor Rahm Emanuel, the two reportedly became friends, in part bonding over their shared religion. Just before Bezos flew in his Blue Origin rocket in July 2021 the Smithsonians National Air and Space Museum announced a $200 million gift from Bezos; the gift will be distributed over four years, according to reporting by MarketWatch. Following the George Floyd protests in 2020, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $100 million gift to support four historically Black medical schools. The pace and scope of her charitable giving is staggering. In all, theyre worth an estimated $1.1 trillion. Marc Antoine Acra Net Worth: $600 Million We are developing a private class of billionaire kings whose will is omnipotent and untouchable by any democratic force Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg at the Sun Valley conference in Idaho,. He died in October, aged 74. In just one year of active philanthropy, Scott has outshined her peers by miles. 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. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connies alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into space. Sheila Bromberg turned up at the famed Abbey Road studio on a winters evening in 1967 because the in-demand harpist needed the cash as a single mom living in London. (Not to be outdone, Ronald donated his collection of European arms and armour to the Met in 2020. 13 Sheldon Adelson No. The 2011 Forbes list of billionaires dropped.Same top-three as last year: Carlos Slim Hel, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. Segal heralded a generation of Jewish actors who were unabashed about their Jewishness. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic. Other top givers to Covid causes include Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has been at the center of vaccine research for years and has committed $1.75 billion over two years for pandemic relief. He and his billionaire brother, Ronald, have also helped raise millions for the Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation, which they co-chair. In a year also marked by turbulent politics, someincluding Zuckerberg and investor George Soroshave put big money behind pro-Democracy causes. His foundation cofounded the New York City Charter School Center and created the Robertson Scholars Leadership Program to fund undergraduate education at Duke University and UNC Chapel Hill. Norton Juster said that his parents, Jewish immigrants from Romania and Poland, had multiple shelves of thousand-page novels and other tomes translated from Yiddish and Russian. 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. Richard Belzer was a Jewish comedian. The group owns much of London's. Nearly two-thirds have yet to give away even a quarter of their wealth, meaning there are a lot more zeros earmarked for charities in the years to come. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, their philanthropic and advocacy organization, says it has given out $3 billion in grants since it was founded in 2015, backing scientific and medical research, as well as education and criminal justice reform. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.. Mr. Soros, the billionaire philanthropist and investor, paid no federal income tax for three consecutive years, according to the . T he billions keep. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and economic mobility. (Scott Olson/Getty Images). 16. The elder son of makeup maven Estee Lauder, Leonard Lauder gave his massive Cubist art collectionworth more than $1 billionto the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. Ive spent the past couple of days buried in Google, going through Forbes recently released list of the countrys 400 richest citizens and trying to figure out who is Jewish. These 25 philanthropists are a collective $150 billion richer than they were a year ago, up 18% each on average. He had previously been a top AIPAC supporter, but cut off support more than a decade ago in favor of more conservative pro-Israel groups. The 2013 estimate was 6.7 million, including 5.3 million adults and 1.3 million children. Real-time net worth as of April 12, 2021: $3 billion "Pat Stryker is a philanthropist and founder of Bohemian Foundation, which supports music, community, global and civic programs. Simons, the founder of quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies and a former math professor, has concentrated his philanthropic giving on STEM research and education. This is a list of individuals and couples who are U.S. citizens; as a result, we excluded extended families like the Waltons, controlling shareholders of Walmart, and excluded big givers like Hansjoerg Wyss, who lives in the U.S. but is a Swiss citizen. 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