Amount donated in 2014: $58.2-million
Beneficiary: Foundation Fighting Blindness
Background: Mr. Gund is chief executive of Gund Investment Corporation, a venture-capital firm.
Gordon Gund says he first began to lose his eyesight in college, and as a Navy pilot he noticed his peripheral vision was weakening.
But he didn’t fully realize what was happening to him until he was about 30 and starting his finance career in New York in the 1960s. It was then that he started having trouble driving at night and soon had to stop altogether.
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