In 2021, Bezos announced $1 billion in donations, the most he's given away since Amazon went public in 1997. His research got former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim permanently uninvited from the United States. (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. The former billionaire has given away virtually all of his fortune as part of a lofty goal to die broke. 14 George Soros No. Helene Fortunoff became a powerful player in the jewelry industry long before many women had even entered the workplace. The pace and scope of her charitable giving is staggering. He died in March, aged 87. "If you are born into poverty, the chances are good that your children will be born into poverty," he told Forbes in 2011. 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. 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. September 24, 2021 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. Helene Fortunoff, left, with Lauren Bacall and Liz Smith at an event in New York City. Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Intel and his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. Cloudflare Ray ID: 7a17081798d439c1 Television talk show legend Larry King was nearly as famous for the 50,000 interviews he claimed to have conducted in his career as he was for his romantic history, marrying eight times to seven women. Ioneer, for example,. 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. . * Networth of the richest Jewish Men. 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. T he billions keep. DellaPergola includes Jews of no religion in these figures only if they have two Jewish parents. To fight climate change, the foundation has backed efforts to reduce emissions from buildings and transportation. By Karen Granit Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. 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. 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. Lynn Schusterman - Net Worth: $3.4 Billion According to Forbes, Lynn Schusterman is currently worth around $3.4 billion. Hi-Tech billionaire Erel Margalit's publicist disseminated his speech before the protesters that . Karen Lewis holds a press conference after Chicago Teachers Union delegates voted to end their 2012 strike. Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has given some $330 million in Covid-19 related funding. In 2020, Stand Together launched the GiveTogetherNow initiative, which raised $120 million from the likes of Google and Stripe to provide more than 240,000 families with $500 in cash assistance. She quickly clarified that she would share details about the gifts "in the year to come." This is a BETA experience. A key area of support was toward initiatives that advance racial, gender and economic equity. Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation has given out $2.25 billion since it was founded in 1999 to focus on children living in urban poverty in the U.S., India and South Africa. In September 2020, Feeney and his wife Helga shuttered his foundation, the Atlantic Philanthropies, after it gave away the last of its assets. Following the George Floyd protests in 2020, Bloomberg Philanthropies announced a $100 million gift to support four historically Black medical schools. In all, theyre worth an estimated $1.1 trillion. Stephen Sondheim made his Broadway debut as the lyricist for West Side Story in 1957 and went on to redefine the American musical through a series of influential works that included Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, Follies, A Little Night Music and Sunday in the Park With George. Sondheim avoided traditional Broadway formulas known to immediately draw audiences, instead crafting musicals about subjects that had not received treatments on mainstream stages: loneliness, despair and the artistic temperament. 6. Hi Tech Billionaire Erel Margalit speaking before protesters outside the Knesset, Feb. 20, 2021. And as the company that made them billionaires ventures further into the cloud, the Ballmers have pledged at least $59 million to help nonprofits and public sector social service organizations do the same by 2023. 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. Amid the pandemic, many of Americas great philanthropists have opened their wallets to help halt the spread of Covid-19 and lessen its impact. May 1, 2021, 5:18 am. 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. Additionally, Melinda has done some giving via her investment and incubation company, Pivotal Ventures. He later transitioned into Jewish dad roles; he had played the patriarch on ABCs The Goldbergs for eight seasons when he died. 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: . The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounder has poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. Reporting by Kerry A. Dolan, Matt Durot, Christopher Helman, John Hyatt, Chase Peterson-Withorn, Rachel Sandler, Michela Tindera and Giacomo Tognini. A pioneer of the modern hedge fund industry, Julian Robertson Jr. established the Robertson Foundation in 1996 to support the environment, education and medical research. About this app. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. 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. (Getty Images). [5], Family fortunes dispersed over a large number of relatives are included only if those individuals' holdings are worth more than a billion dollars. 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. Why didnt his obituaries say so? Lynn Schusterman's Samson Resources lost $1 billion over the past year, according to Forbes,. The Facebook cofounder and with his wife, former Wall Street Journal reporter Cari Tuna, founded Good Ventures, which has been donating to a variety of causes, from criminal justice reform to combating malaria, since 2012. * Finance state of the richest Jews. He died in November at 91. 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. From Warren Buffett to newcomer Jeff Bezos, the nation's most generous billionaires have given away a collective $169 billion in their lifetimes-and are still richer than ever. Last year, she continued giving her fortune away faster than any billionaire ever, announcing in June another $2.7 billion in gifts to 286 high-impact groups such as the Childrens Defense Fund and the National Council of Nonprofitspushing her estimated lifetime donations above $8.6 billion. In May 2021, the Washington residents announced $38 million of new grants over five years to address the states mental health crisis. To spur investment in low-income and underserved communities in the U.S., the foundation donated to LISC, a community development finance group that offers loans at affordable rates. The richest Jew in the world is Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, with a net worth of $43 billion, according to Forbes, up $7 billion from last year. In 2011, the couple gave a record-breaking $150 million to Stony Brook University, Simons former employer. 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 lists includes where they rank on the Jewish list, followed by their rank on the general Forbes list, their net wealth in millions of dollars, followed by their age, location and the source of their wealth. She died in November, aged 91. advised young people about sex into her 90s. Larry King during an interview with Ross Perot in 1993. He was also a principal backer of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In 2020, a year before the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre, the foundation helped launch Build In Tulsa, which seeks to build Black entrepreneurship through programs including a startup accelerator for Black-led firms and a fund that will invest in Black-owned companies. In 2021, the Moore foundation awarded nearly $350 million in grants. So, too, do their charitable contributions. Ed Asner was an established character actor when he signed on to play the gruff TV station boss in The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. (Screenshot from YouTube). Segal heralded a generation of Jewish actors who were unabashed about their Jewishness. Arnold, a former hedge fund manager, and his wife focus on criminal justice, healthcare and education reform. Hes also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. You may opt-out by, his quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune, has given away virtually all of his fortune, "an effort to ensure the survival of the human species. Jewish billionaires. The following is based on the annual estimated wealth and assets assessment compiled and published by American business magazine Forbes. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. Forbes divides the grantmaking by the foundation since 2007 between the Gateses and major donor Warren Buffett. The 2011 Forbes list of billionaires dropped.Same top-three as last year: Carlos Slim Hel, Bill Gates, and Warren Buffett. 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 . In 2020, the couple donated $136 million, including to Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach. The Meta Platforms (formerly Facebook) CEO and his wife Priscilla Chan, a doctor, have multiple ambitious goals, including to cure, prevent or manage all diseases. 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