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By JOHN ANASTASI
The Intelligencer

By the time she was 35, Tracy Gary had already given away more money than most of us will ever have.

'Philanthropy is a strategy to redistribute wealth and skills,' she said.

Gary inherited a portion of the Pillsbury family fortune in the early 1970s at the age of 21. In the next 14 years, she donated about $1 million to various charities. Still an active donor at the age of 54, Gary tours the country, speaking to professional women about how to be smart about imparting their wealth."