| Amount | Donor | Beneficiaries |
| $800-million | From the Walton Family Foundation; Alice Walton is an heiress to the Wal-Mart Stores fortune | To the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, Ark.) for endowment |
| $350-million (pledge) | From the Atlantic Philanthropies, founded by Charles F. Feeney, who is also a co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group | To Cornell University (Ithaca, N.Y.) for an applied-science and technology campus in New York |
| $265-million (bequest) | From William S. Dietrich II, who was chairman of Dietrich Industries | To Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh) |
| $225-million | From Raymond G. Perelman, chairman of RGP Holdings, and his wife, Ruth | To the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) for its School of Medicine |
| $200-million (pledge) | From David Dornsife, chairman of the Herrick Corporation, and his wife, Dana | To the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) for the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences |
| $150-million | From Robert E. King, a partner at Peninsula Capital, and his wife, Dorothy | To Stanford University (Calif.) for an entrepreneurship institute |
| $150-million (pledge) | From the Simons Foundation; James Simons is chairman of Renaissance Technologies | To the State University of New York at Stony Brook for medical research, endowed professorships, and scholarships |
| $125-million (bequest) | From William S. Dietrich II, who was chairman of Dietrich Industries | To the University of Pittsburgh |
| $110-million (pledge) | From John Mork, chief executive of Energy Corporation of America, and his wife, Julie | To the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) for scholarships |
| $100-million (pledge) | From Richard O. Jacobson, founder of Jacobson Companies | To the Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minn.) |
| $100-million (bequest) | From the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation; Margie Petersen was the widow of Robert E. Petersen who founded the Petersen Publishing Company | To the Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation (Los Angeles) |
| $70-million (bequest) | From Arthur G. Glasgow, who was a co-founder of Humphreys & Glasgow, and his wife, Margaret | To the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond) to endow acquisitions |
| Note: Does not include gifts of artwork or other noncash donations or gifts from anonymous donors. | ||
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