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Charities That Have Scored Multiple Multimillion-Dollar ‘Big Bets’

By  Drew Lindsay
November 19, 2015

Bridgespan identified 28 charities and foundations that from 2000 to 2012 received at least four gifts of $10 million or more from at least two donors.


Alliance for Climate Protection ($46 million total)

Benificus Foundation

Lincy Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Skoll Foundation


American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ($89 million)

David and Inez Myers Foundation

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation


Boy Scouts of America ($155 million)

Edward and Jeanne Arnold

S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

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Bridgespan identified 28 charities and foundations that from 2000 to 2012 received at least four gifts of $10 million or more from at least two donors.


Alliance for Climate Protection ($46 million total)

Benificus Foundation

Lincy Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Skoll Foundation

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American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee ($89 million)

David and Inez Myers Foundation

Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation


Boy Scouts of America ($155 million)

Edward and Jeanne Arnold

S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation

James Justice

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Jan and Trevor Rees-Jones

Ruby Foundation

Suzanne and Walter Scott Foundation


Boys & Girls Club of America ($44 million)

Anonymous

Arizona Community Foundation

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Gary E. Milgard Family Foundation

Peter and Ginny Nicholas


Charter Fund ($89 million)

Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Walton Family Foundation


ClimateWorks Foundation ($860 million)

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

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McKnight Foundation

David and Lucile Packard Foundation


Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan ($95 million)

Ford Foundation

W.K. Kellogg Foundation

John S. and James L. Knight Foundation

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Kresge Foundation


Conservation International ($407 million)

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Walton Family Foundation


Energy Foundation ($78 million)

McKnight Foundation

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Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation


Environmental Defense Fund ($118 million)

Robertson Foundation

Walton Family Foundation

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Robert W. Wilson


Harlem Children’s Zone ($196 million)

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

Druckenmiller Foundation/Stanley Druckenmiller

Open Society Foundations

National Philanthropic Trust

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Oak Foundation U.S.A.

Starr Foundation


Institute of International Education ($100 million)

Ford Foundation

Henry Kaufman

Whitaker Foundation

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KIPP ($87 million)

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Atlantic Philanthropies

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Doris and Don Fisher

Houston Endowment

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Walton Family Foundation


Nature Conservancy ($370 million)

Anonymous

Priscilla Bullitt Collins

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Dennis and Constance Templeton Keller

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Newell and Ann Meyer

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Pew Charitable Trusts

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Sally Reahard

Tosa Foundation

Trust for Public Land

Wallace Foundation

Walton Family Foundation

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Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust

Wyss Foundation


Planned Parenthood Federation of America ($121 million)

Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Open Society Foundations


Robin Hood Foundation ($163 million)

Steven A. and Alexandra M. Cohen Foundation

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Dalio Foundation

Open Society Foundations

Sidney E. Frank Charitable Foundation


Salvation Army ($1.6 billion)

Lois M. Collier

Hector Guy and Doris Di Stefano

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Joan B. Kroc

Lilly Endowment


Save the Children ($64 million)

Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation

Charity Projects Entertainment Fund


Stanford University ($235 million)

Robert E. and Dorothy J. King

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David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Jay A. Precourt


Teach for America ($206 million)

Laura and John Arnold Foundation

Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation

Michael and Susan Dell Foundation

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Don and Doris Fisher

Lenfest Foundation

Stephen F. and Susan Mandel Jr.

Robertson Foundation

Walton Family Foundation

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Meg Whitman


Tides Center ($84 million)

California Endowment

Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program


UNICEF ($114 million)

William J. Clinton Foundation

Entertainment Industry Foundation

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Rene and Jeanne Gaffe

Rotary International

United Nations Foundation


United Jewish Appeal ($188 million)

Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation

Jewish Communal Fund

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United Way ($260 million)

Lenfest Foundation

Lilly Endowment

Global Impact

John S. and Leigh Middleton

Stardust Foundation

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Wildlife Conservation Society ($95 million)

Starr Foundation

Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust


World Health Organization ($124 million)

Rotary International

United Nations Foundation


World Wildlife Fund ($84 million)

Edward P. Bass

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Hector Guy and Doris Di Stefano

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Vicki and Roger Sant


Youth Villages ($82 million)

Jacobson Family Foundation

Day Foundation

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Edna McConnell Clark Foundation

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Drew Lindsay
Drew is a longtime magazine writer and editor who joined the Chronicle of Philanthropy in 2014.
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