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Search or browse this year’s list of America’s biggest donors and all the past lists going back to 2000. You can sort by name, amount donated, source of wealth, location, and top cause.

The effort will give help launch programs proven effective in other cities, providing grants for startup costs and technical support, as well as sponsor trips and webinars to inform leaders about new programs.

Some of America’s biggest donors gave primarily to their foundations or donor-advised funds last year. Here is a sampling of how much those giving vehicles received and how much they awarded to nonprofits in 2022.

Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Mike Bloomberg, and Warren Buffett topped the list.

Takeaways from a new $50 million venture with national grant makers investing in philanthropy-starved rural America: “No one is coming to do this work for us.”

Despite the continuing Covid threat and racial-justice problems, the nation’s wealthiest donors have largely returned to old standbys — handing out big sums to universities, medicine, and their own foundations. But there are exceptions and some interesting new faces.

Following nationwide protests to condemn police brutality against black people, a key grassroots organization this week has shifted its attention to raising grants that will allow it to advocate for policy change at every level of government.

Find out more about America’s 50 biggest donors: their ages, sources of wealth, where they live, and where they give. And see the entire Philanthropy 50 report featuring our analysis of the list and giving trends among megadonors.

Five donors contributed $1 billion or more, the first time in 20 years that so many people have given that much.

Find out more about America’s 50 biggest donors: their ages, source of wealth, where they live, and where they give.