Amount
Donor
Purpose or beneficiary
$400-million (bequest)
Cordelia Scaife May, an heiress to the Mellon fortune
To the Colcom Foundation (Pittsburgh)
$320-million
William H. (Bill) Gates III, chairman of Microsoft, and his wife, Melinda F. Gates
To the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Seattle)
$206-million
George Soros, a financier in New York
To Central European U. (Budapest) for its endowment
$115-million (pledge)
Lawrence J. Ellison, chief executive officer of Oracle
To Harvard U. (Cambridge, Mass.) to finance research on global health
$105-million (pledge)
Jan T. Vilcek, medical professor at New York U. School of Medicine, and his wife, Marica F. Vilcek
To New York U. School of Medicine for its Department of Microbiology"
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