Amount donated in 2013: $67.3-million
Beneficiary: Mayo Clinic
Background: Mr. Kern founded Generac Power Systems, a generator-manufacturing company in Waukesha, Wis.
Robert Kern first came to the Mayo Clinic as a 5-year-old patient in 1930. It was the beginning of the Great Depression, and Mr. Kern’s father, a minister with little money, could not pay for his sick little boy’s treatment. The Mayo Clinic provided that care for free.
Nowadays, the former patient is gratefully giving back.
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