A roundup of notable gifts compiled by the Chronicle:
Union College
Rich and Mary Templeton gave $51 million to create the Templeton Institute for Engineering and Computer Science. The money will also be used to recruit women pursuing engineering or computer-science degrees, and support faculty and a variety of campus programs.
Rich Templeton is CEO of Texas Instruments. He joined the company after earning a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Union in 1980.
Mary Templeton graduated from Union that same year with a bachelor’s degree in computer science and worked for General Electric Company for 14 years.
Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City
Debra and Leon Black pledged $20 million to help employees at hospitals in New York City, which have been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Of the total, $10 million will match gifts from other donors, and the Robin Hood foundation will manage the matching gifts from other donors.
The money will pay for up to 500,000 packages of shelf-stable food, household cleaning and personal-care products, and over-the-counter medicine to hospital workers through June.
Leon Black founded the private-equity firm Apollo Global Management in 1990. He is also an art collector and chairman of the Museum of Modern Art’s Board of Trustees. Debra Black is a Broadway producer. The Blacks have appeared on the Chronicle’s annual Philanthropy 50 list of the biggest donors twice since 2012.
Englewood Health Foundation
Maggie Kaplen donated $10 million through the Kaplen Foundation to establish the Kaplen Institute for Nursing Excellence, support professional-development programs for the health system’s nurses, and create a pipeline for new nurses to establish careers at Englewood Health Hospital.
Kaplan is a retired nurse and the widow of Bill Kaplen, a New Jersey real-estate developer who died in 2013.
Arizona Coronavirus Relief Fund
Catherine Ivy gave $5 million through her Ben and Catherine Ivy Foundation to pay for personal protective equipment including masks, gloves, gowns, and more for doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals caring for Covid-19 patients throughout Arizona.
Catherine Ivy is a former financial planner who led Ivy Financial Planning and Associates, in Palo Alto, Calif. Her late husband, Ben, was president of Ivy Financial Enterprises, an investment advisory firm. He died in 2005.
Tampa General Hospital
Eddie DeBartolo Jr. and his wife, Candy, donated more than $7.6 million, of which $2.5 million will be used to develop a Covid-19 unit that will provide a dedicated area to diagnose and treat patients affected by the pandemic. The money will also help pay for the hospital’s long-term efforts to fight infectious diseases.
Of the reminding total, $150,000 will go toward the TGH Team Member Emergency Fund, created to help hospital staff who cannot afford to pay their bills due to the inability to work. It is unclear how the remaining $5 million will be used, but the couple designated that portion to honor Dr. Thomas Bernasek, an orthopedic surgeon on staff at the hospital.
Eddie DeBartolo, a commercial real-estate developer, owned the San Francisco 49ers professional football team from 1977 to 2000. He gave up the team after he pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in relation to a 1998 corruption case involving Edwin Edwards, former governor of Louisiana. President Trump granted DeBartolo a presidential pardon earlier this year.
Stanford Health Care
Billionaire Marc Andreessen and his wife, Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen, gave an unrestricted $2 million to defray unexpected costs of the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Marc Andreessen co-founded the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. A software engineer earlier in his career, he was one of the developers of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser, and he co-founded Netscape, among other technology companies.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen founded the Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund and has taught philanthropy courses and served as a lecturer at Stanford University, her alma mater, since 2001. Her father, John Arrillaga, is a Silicon Valley real-estate billionaire.
Foundation for Oklahoma City Schools
Chad and Charis Richison donated $1 million for Covid-19 relief efforts including food and tents for workers handing out food to families; and the printing, binding, and distribution of instructional packets for students without access to technology devices and the internet.
Chad Richison is a billionaire who founded and leads Paycom, an online payroll-processing company. He also founded the Green Shoe Foundation, an organization devoted to helping functioning adults recover from childhood trauma. Charis Richison is a former executive and diabetes-care specialist at Novo Nordisk, a Danish pharmaceutical company.
Northern Virginia Community College Educational Foundation
Debra Coffman Howe gave $1 million to shore up an endowed scholarship fund she established in 2018 for nursing students and to back the college’s Covid-19 Emergency Student Aid Fund.
Howe is the managing partner and president of Airamid Health Services and Kaine Financial Services. Airamid Health Services is a health care consultancy in Florida. She studied nursing at the college as a scholarship student before earning bachelor of science degree from St. Joseph University in Windham, Maine.
To learn about other big donations, see our database of gifts of $1 million or more, which is updated throughout the week.
