jewish billionaires 2021

2023 jewish telegraphic agency all rights reserved. There are 2,153 billionaires in the world and 21 of them are Israelis up three from a year ago according to the 2019 Forbes World Billionaires list, JNS.org reported. After studying with the famed Masters and Johnson sex experts, Zussman and her husband ran the Human Sexuality Program at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center together for a decade, wrote a book about sexuality for couples, worked for several clinics and advised young people about sex into her 90s. Alongside David, she has given over $700 million to medical institutions, including more than $200 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, and some $300 million to arts and culture organizations, including more than $100 million to Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Jessica Walter earned a cult following for her portrayal of the manipulative Bluth family matriarch Lucille Bluth in the beloved TV comedy Arrested Development. But that role capped a long career in which she specialized in playing predatory women, beginning with Bye Bye Braverman in 1968. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell. In less than one year as a publicly active philanthropist, she has given away more than what all but five of the countrys biggest givers have in their entire lifetimes, Forbes calculates. Hes spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. He died in August at 91. [2] Their Michael & Susan Dell Foundation increased its yearly commitments in 2020, mostly to cover pandemic-related needs. In 2020 it extended support to nonprofits struggling during the pandemic. (Dignity Memorial). In 2009, 139 of the Forbes 400 were Jewish. Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020, Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. The bulk of his giving is a 2010 gift of 20,000 acres of parkland to Orange County, part of which established the Black Star Canyon Wilderness Park. Here is the list of Jewish entries that Iculled from the Forbes list. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. The Kansas native presides over Koch Industries, America's largest private company. ), If not for his $1.4 billion of lifetime giving, the man behind Turner Broadcasting and CNN wouldnt have fallen off Forbes list of the 400 richest Americans in 2021. In October 2021, the Omidyar Network announced a new program that aims to invest $10 million in organizations that hold corporations accountable for their impact on society. (Screenshot from YouTube). The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, their philanthropic and advocacy organization, says it has given out $3 billion in grants since it was founded in 2015, backing scientific and medical research, as well as education and criminal justice reform. She died in August at 92. The couple has directed another $40 million toward other universities and $30 million toward childrens health and education. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums. * Wealth of the richest men who are of Jewish ancestry. Clockwise, from top left: Jessica Walter, Ed Asner, Sylvia Weinstock, George Segal, Norton Juster, Joan Micklin Silver and Larry King. In July 2021, Schusterman Philanthropies joined Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott in the Equality Cant Wait Challenge, aimed at expanding womens power and influence in the U.S., contributing $10 million out of the $40 million in grants awarded. He told The New York Times in 1971 that neither his name nor his nose were unwieldy, so why change them? Though the Gateses ended their 27 year marriage last year, they continue to co-chair the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the vehicle for nearly all their philanthropic giving. Real-time net worth as of April 12, 2021: $3 billion "Pat Stryker is a philanthropist and founder of Bohemian Foundation, which supports music, community, global and civic programs. For these calculations, Forbes divvies up the grantmaking since 2007 by the Gates Foundation between the Gates couple and Buffett. The richest American Jew, Larry Ellison, saw his wealth and his spot on this liest stay level, while our second wealthiest member, Michael Bloomberg, managed to lose $2.5 billion but maintian his spot at number 8 on this list. Longtime residents of Los Angeles, the couple supported the city's education, sciences and arts scene for decades. Sher never stopped being an advocate he led the AIPAC pro-Israel lobby for a few years, and pressed for compensation for the beneficiaries of Jews who took out insurance policies before and during the Holocaust. Published June 8, 2021 Updated June 9, 2021. A widely-covered seven-day strike in 2012 transformed Lewis into a public figure, and she briefly contemplated running for mayor of Chicago. In total, these 25 billionaires have given an estimated $149 billion to charity over their lifetimes so far. The wealthiest Jews in Britain were born abroad, according to the Sunday Times Super-Rich list, published on Sunday. However, not all of them permanently reside in Israel. By submitting the above I agree to the privacy policy and terms of use of JTA.org. With between approximately 5,700,000 and 7,160,000 million Jews, the United States is home to what is considered the largest or second largest Jewish population in the world, depending on the sources cited and methods used. 11 Sergey Brin No. After drawing criticism for her lack of transparency, Scott said she would share more information and disclosed that she is launching a website with a searchable database of gifts. Russian Jewish billionaire to donate $100 million for Ukrainian refugee relief . Finally, positions in a publicly traded stock are priced to market on a date roughly a month before publication. Using data from the 2020 Pew Research Center survey, Hebrew University demographer Sergio DellaPergola estimates the "core" Jewish population in the United States to be slightly more than 6 million, including 4.8 million adults and 1.2 million children. You may opt-out by, his quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune, has given away virtually all of his fortune, "an effort to ensure the survival of the human species. Forbes does not include in the list all entrepreneurs and investors who have citizenship of the country. Bernie Madoff, pictured in 2009 ahead of his entering a guilty plea. Lewis led the Chicago Teachers Union from 2010 to 2018, during which the group exploded into public awareness as a model for a new breed of public education organizing. * Consistent experience training athletes at the Jr Nat / Olympic Trial level 540-792-2020-or- 412-298-3432. . Your IP: The funds will be used to build 1,400 RVs and microhouses for individuals coming out of chronic homelessness at the 51-acre Mobile Loaves & Fishes planned community. Recipients included both disrupted schools and individuals in need of direct cash assistance. His research got former United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim permanently uninvited from the United States. Director Joan Micklin Silver was most famous for telling two love Jewish stories of New Yorks Lower East Side, straddling both ends of the 20th century: Hester Street, almost entirely in Yiddish, was about a marriage of immigrants, and Crossing Delancey, made and set in the 1980s, was about a Jewish courtship involving a pickle seller. are made. ". He died in November at 91. (Not to be outdone, Ronald donated his collection of European arms and armour to the Met in 2020. April 29, 2022, 11:20 am. It also supported Feeding America, which works with food banks across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundationand are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. We are developing a private class of billionaire kings whose will is omnipotent and untouchable by any democratic force Sheryl Sandberg and Mark Zuckerberg at the Sun Valley conference in Idaho,. From Warren Buffett to newcomer Jeff Bezos, the nation's most generous billionaires have given away a collective $169 billion in their lifetimes-and are still richer than ever. Not far behind (and maybe even ahead): MacKenzie Scott, whose shoestring operationshe has no foundation and gives her wealth away in stealthdonated $5.8 billion to 500 different groups across the country in 2020. 332, Barry Diller; and No. Luminate, the Groups citizen engagement armwhich has doled out nearly $400 million since its launchincreased its support for social justice organizations, including the civil rights advocacy organization Color of Change, following the Black Lives Matter protests in June. Arnold and wife Laura emphasize that their $200 million-plus in evidence-based annual giving is all about maximizing opportunity and minimizing injustice. Among 540 active grantees, the Arnolds have earmarked nearly $30 million to the Center for Effective Public Policy to study pretrial reforms, $30 million to America Achieves to support a national tutoring program and more than $100 million to The City Fund to improve public education in the U.S. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. Janet Malcolm at The New Yorker Festival in 2011. In shekel () terms, Israel had 170 billionaires in the same year. The richest real estate mogul in the U.S., Bren has given more than $240 million to schools and universities in southern California, including Caltech and the University of Californias Santa Barbara and Irvine campuses. Previously, Ballmer gave $50 million to the University of Oregon (Connies alma mater) in 2014 and gave $60 million to the computer science department at Harvard (his alma mater). Simons' foundation has also supported life science research, giving to the New York Genome Center, and autism research through donations to the Autism Research Initiative. Over the coming months, well be taking a deeper look at how each of these people give their money away. Bernie Madoff, the fraudster whose Ponzi scheme lost billions for investors many of them major Jewish institutions died in April while serving a 150-year sentence in a federal prison in North Carolina. Jonathan Greenstein (1967-), founder of auction house J. Greenstein & Company [44] Ami James (1972-), Israeli-American entrepreneur, owner of the Miami-based Love Hate Tattoo Studio, and nightclub Love Hate Lounge [45] [46] Jules Kroll (1941-), founder of corporate investigation firm Kroll, Inc. [47] Terry Lenzner (1939-2020), founder . T he billions keep. Vadim Novinsky's fortune in the CEOWORLD magazine estimated at $ 1.4 billion. 10 Michael Bloomberg No. The wealthiest. Among the top 25 on the list, 15 are Jewish or of Jewish origin. In 2020, the couple donated $136 million, including to Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach. This is a list of individuals and couples who are U.S. citizens; as a result, we excluded extended families like the Waltons, controlling shareholders of Walmart, and excluded big givers like Hansjoerg Wyss, who lives in the U.S. but is a Swiss citizen. Knight, who cofounded the sportswear giant Nike with his former track coach at the University of Oregon, pledged nearly $800 million to the university, including a $27 million donation to renovate the campus library, a $500 million commitment to establish a new applied sciences research center and a $100 million gift to help finance construction of the school's new basketball venue, Matthew Knight Arena, named after his late son. So he set about formulating a new system: Check immigration records against Nazi records. To that end, we also do not include gifts that have been pledged but not yet paid out, or money given to donor-advised fundsopaque tax advantaged accounts that have neither disclosure nor distribution requirementsunless the giver shared details about the grants that were actually paid. . Those of particular interest: Sheldon Adelson continued his drop on this list. Why didnt his obituaries say so? (Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post via Getty Images). Jan 12, 2021 Sheldon Adelson, the Jewish-American billionaire who used his wealth to dramatically influence politics in both Israel and the United States, died Monday night at the age of 87. He died in Los Angeles in January at 87. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. (Si) Newhouse Jr. 4,500 81 New York publishing, 56 Micky Arison 4,300 60 Bal Harbour Carnival Cruises, 61 Ralph Lauren 4,200 70 New York fashion, 65 Lester Crown & family 4,000 84 Wilmette investments, 65 Richard LeFrak & family 4,000 64 New York real estate, 65 Donald Newhouse 4,000 79 Somerset County publishing, 65 Daniel Ziff 4,000 37 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Dirk Ziff 4,000 45 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 65 Robert Ziff 4,000 43 New York inheritance, hedge funds, 77 Henry Kravis 3,800 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 77 Paul Milstein & family 3,800 87 New York Emigrant, real estate, 77 Samuel Zell 3,800 68 Chicago real estate, private equity, 84 Leonard N. Stern 3,600 71 New York real estate, 85 Stanley Druckenmiller 3,500 56 Pittsburgh hedge funds, 85 Bruce Kovner 3,500 64 New York hedge funds, 85 George Roberts 3,500 66 San Francisco leveraged buyouts, 97 Riley P. Bechtel 3,000 57 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Stephen D. Bechtel Jr. 3,000 84 San Francisco engineering, construction**, 97 Leonard Lauder 3,000 76 New York Estee Lauder, 97 Theodore Lerner 3,000 84 Washington real estate, 97 Steven Spielberg 3,000 62 Pacific Palisades movies, 97 Warren Stephens 3,000 52 Little Rock Stephens Inc. **, 97 David Tepper 3,000 52 Milburn hedge funds, 110 Stephen Ross 2,900 69 New York real estate, 113 Daniel Och 2,800 48 New York hedge funds, 113 Haim Saban 2,800 65 Beverly Hills television, 123 Edgar M. Bronfman 2,500 80 New York liquor, 123 Ronald Lauder 2,500 65 New York Estee Lauder, 123 Mitchell Rales 2,500 53 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 Steven Rales 2,500 58 Washington Danaher Corp **, 123 David Rubenstein 2,500 60 Bethesda leveraged buyouts, 139 Mark Cuban 2,400 51 Dallas Broadcast.com, 139 Malcolm Glazer & family 2,400 81 Palm Beach sports teams, real estate, 141 Steve Wynn 2,300 67 Las Vegas casinos, hotels **, 147 Tom Gores 2,200 45 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 147 Bruce Wasserstein 2,200 61 New York Wasserstein Perella, Lazard, 158 Nicolas Berggruen 2,000 48 New York Investments, 158 Leon Black 2,000 58 New York leveraged buyouts, 158 William Gross 2,000 65 Laguna Beach bonds **, 158 Michael Milken 2,000 63 Los Angeles investments, 158 Sumner Redstone 2,000 86 Beverly Hills Viacom, 158 Leslie Wexner 2,000 72 New Albany Limited Brands, 158 Mark Zuckerberg 2,000 25 Palo Alto Facebook, 183 Stewart Rahr 1,950 63 New York Kinray, 193 Alan Casden 1,850 63 Beverly Hills real estate, 196 Thomas Pritzker 1,800 59 Chicago hotels, investments, 196 Jerry Speyer 1,800 69 New York real estate, 204 Israel Englander 1,700 61 New York hedge funds, 204 Penny Pritzker 1,700 50 Chicago hotels, investments, 204 Sheldon Solow 1,700 81 New York real estate, 212 Robert Friedland 1,650 59 Singapore mining, 212 Henry Samueli 1,650 55 Newport Beach Broadcom, 220 Thomas Friedkin 1,600 74 Houston Gulf States Toyota, 220 Alec Gores 1,600 56 Beverly Hills leveraged buyouts, 220 Irwin Jacobs 1,600 76 La Jolla Qualcomm, 220 Anthony Pritzker 1,600 48 Los Angeles hotels, investments, 220 Jay Robert Pritzker 1,600 44 Evanston hotels, investments, 230 John Morgridge 1,550 76 Portola Valley Cisco ** (NETA with Jewish Agency), 230 Isaac Perlmutter 1,550 67 Palm Beach Marvel, 236 Neil Bluhm 1,500 71 Chicago real estate, 236 Robert Kraft 1,500 68 Brookline New England Patriots, 236 Stephen Mandel 1,500 53 Greenwich hedge funds, 236 Daniel Pritzker 1,500 50 Marin County hotels, investments, 236 James Pritzker 1,500 58 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker 1,500 47 Chicago hotels, investments, 236 John Pritzker 1,500 56 San Francisco hotels, investments, 236 Karen Pritzker 1,500 51 New Haven hotels, investments, 236 Linda Pritzker 1,500 55 St. Ignatius hotels, investments, 236 Marc Rich 1,500 74 Meggen commodities, 236 Lynn Schusterman 1,500 70 Tulsa oil & gas, investments, 236 John Sperling 1,500 88 Phoenix Apollo Group, 236 Mortimer Zuckerman 1,500 72 New York real estate, media, 272 George Lindemann & family 1,450 73 Palm Beach investments, 272 Bernard Marcus 1,450 80 Atlanta Home Depot, 277 S. Daniel Abraham 1,400 85 Palm Beach Slim-Fast, 277 John Arrillaga 1,400 72 Palo Alto real estate, 277 Alfred Mann 1,400 83 Los Angeles medical devices, 277 Michael Moritz 1,400 55 Mountain View venture capital, 277 Michael Price 1,400 57 Far Hills investments, 277 Tamir Sapir 1,400 62 New York real estate, 277 Alfred Taubman 1,400 85 Bloomfield Hills real estate, 289 Ken Fisher 1,350 58 Woodside Money management **, 289 David Gottesman 1,350 83 Rye investments, 289 Marc Lasry 1,350 49 New York hedge funds (92nd Street Y), 296 Edmund Ansin 1,300 73 Miami Sunbeam Broadcasting, 296 Ron Baron 1,300 66 New York money management, 296 Leon Charney 1,300 68 New York Real estate, 296 Glenn Dubin 1,300 52 New York hedge funds, 296 Donald Fisher 1,300 81 San Francisco Gap, 296 Doris Fisher 1,300 78 San Francisco Gap, 296 Jeremy Jacobs Sr. 1,300 69 East Aurora sports concessions, 296 Gary Michelson 1,300 60 Los Angeles medical patents, 317 Arthur Blank 1,250 67 Atlanta Home Depot, 317 Jeffrey Greene 1,250 54 Miami Beach real estate, investments, 317 Thomas H. Lee 1,250 65 New York leveraged buyouts, 317 Herbert Simon 1,250 74 Indianapolis real estate, 317 Peter Sperling 1,250 49 Phoenix Apollo Group, 326 John E. Abele 1,200 72 Shelburne healthcare **, 326 Norman Braman 1,200 77 Miami art, car dealerships, 326 John Fisher 1,200 48 San Francisco Gap, 326 Nicholas Pritzker 1,200 65 Chicago hotels, investments, 326 Alexander Rovt 1,200 57 Brooklyn fertilizer, 326 Margaret Whitman 1,200 53 Atherton Ebay, 341 Leon Cooperman 1,150 66 Short Hills hedge funds, 341 Barry Diller 1,150 67 New York IAC/InterActiveCorp, 341 Joseph Mansueto 1,150 53 Chicago Morningstar **, 347 Marc Benioff 1,100 45 San Francisco Salesforce.com, 347 A. James Clark 1,100 81 Easton Construction **, 347 Robert Fisher 1,100 56 San Francisco Gap, 347 Alan Gerry 1,100 80 Liberty cable television**, 347 James Irsay 1,100 50 Carmel Indianapolis Colts (Father, Bob was Jewish), 347 Michael Krasny 1,100 56 Highland Park CDW Corp 3, 347 Daniel Snyder 1,100 44 Potomac Washington Redskins, 347 Henry Swieca 1,100 52 New York hedge funds, 366 Peter Lewis 1,050 75 Coconut Grove Progressive Corp, 366 Nelson Peltz 1,050 67 Bedford Investments, 371 William Fisher 1,000 52 San Francisco Gap, 371 Pincus Green 1,000 74 Jerusalem commodities, 371 Jeffry Picower 1,000 67 Palm Beach investments, 371 Steven Schonfeld 1,000 50 Westbury Proprietary Trading, 371 Walter Shorenstein & family 1,000 94 San Francisco real estate, 371 Evgeny (Eugene) Shvidler 1,000 45 London Millhouse LLC, 371 Charles Zegar 1,000 61 New York Bloomberg LP, 394 Jeffrey Lurie 980 58 Haverford Philadelphia Eagles, 396 Nancy Lerner 960 49 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Norma Lerner 960 73 Cleveland inheritance, 396 Randolph Lerner 960 47 Cleveland inheritance, list of the countrys 400 richest citizens, Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. His Open Society Foundations support causes including economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. 6. (Amy Sussman/Getty Images). The cofounder and former longtime CEO of Intel and his wife launched their foundation in 2000, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The 165 Jewish billionaires around the world have $812 billion in joint wealth, Forbes Israel reported on Thursday. According to Forbes, some of the names that the Jewish philanthropy world knows best had rough years. He made headlines last year after his civic engagement organization Luminate helped Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen with press and government relations. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation,which includesan art lending library that has lent more than 8,500 works to 500 museums. Petro Poroshenko holds the 6th spot with a whopping net worth of $1.6 billion. September 24, 2021 Please email us at [emailprotected], subject line republish, with any questions or to let us know what stories youre picking up. As a result, Forbes is continuing to count the former couples donations as a combined number. The Phantom Tollbooth, one of the most beloved childrens books of all time, was written by a Jewish architect who fell in love with wordplay through Yiddish novels. The organization has given more than $200 million to bankroll research on the disease, including to fund trials in 19 countries. An attorney for Sanford said that authorities "did not find information or evidence that supported or resulted in any criminal charges.. According to Israeli daily business newspaper TheMarker, Israel has seventy-one billionaires as of 2021, with one of the highest per capita rates in the world, at 6.7 billionaires for every million people. And it donated to a partnership between tech firm Propel and nonprofit GiveDirectly, which provided $1,000 cash grants to families in need during the pandemic. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York Genome Center, and supports autism causes with its Autism Research Institute. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion to $3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock a year to the foundation since 2006. (Stephen Chernin/Getty Images). The foundation's largest sum in 2021$51.2 million in totalwent to the Malaria Consortium, which aims to manage and control the disease in Africa and Asia. The bulk of his philanthropy came before 2014, when he completed a $1 billion pledge to establish the United Nations Foundation, enabling the U.N. to raise money from philanthropists. The foundation made $5.8 billion in grants in 2020, including spending on research and vaccines for Covid-19. May 1, 2021, 5:18 am. Born to Jewish immigrant parents in Kansas City, Asner never shied from his Jewish roots, touring the country playing a Holocaust survivor in The Soap Myth, a run interrupted only by the coronavirus pandemic. Forbes has bumped its lifetime giving estimate for the Nike cofounder by $1.9 billion since January 2021, due primarily to new information about the pace at which hes paying out more than $2.5 billion in pledges to three universities: the University of Oregon, where he cofounded the sportswear giant with his track coach; Oregon Health & Science University; and Stanford University, where he got his MBA. Were happy to make this story available to republish for free, unless it originated with JTA, Haaretz or another publication (as indicated on the article) and as long as you follow our guidelines. She died in February at 67 from brain cancer. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundations causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. So far, hes donated more than $40 billionmuch of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where its being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. Police, security agencies advise Jews to be on alert ahead of planned National Day of Hate on Shabbat, American citizen killed in latest West Bank shooting amid escalating violence, This Orthodox Jewish model made history at New York Fashion Week. [5], Family fortunes dispersed over a large number of relatives are included only if those individuals' holdings are worth more than a billion dollars. Overall, Forbes said there are a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires so far in the world in 2021. The pace and scope of her charitable giving is staggering. He was also known as a relentless inquisitor. However, when a living individual has dispersed his or her wealth to immediate family members, it is included under a single listing provided that individual is still living. The wife and daughter of late oil billionaire Charles Schusterman run the familys foundation, which more than doubled its grantmaking in 2020 to nearly $400 million. He died in March at 91. At $25 million, he was the largest donor to Donald Trumps successful 2016 presidential bid and the biggest giver in the 2012 American election cycle, at nearly $93 million. Web, LAP & Community. In June 2021, the Open Society Foundations, which operate in more than 120 countries, announced a reshuffling to meet the challenges of the momentnamely, the rise of authoritarianism around the globe. The former Microsoft CEO and his wife Connie reported giving more than $400 million to nonprofits in 2021, pushing their lifetime total above $2.1 billion. Number of Jews in the Top 100: 30 No. Heres the full list of Americas 25 most generous givers: Buffett is likely the biggest philanthropist of all time thanks to his quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune. It committed $220 million to support leaders in Black communities across the United States in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Weinstock was a grade school teacher living in Long Island until a bout with breast cancer at 50 led her into a career that would dub her the Queen of Cakes. She became famous for wedding cakes that were stunning handmade confabulations, among them a replica of Masada with the Dead Sea at its base. The nations 25 biggest givers have donated a total of $169 billion over the course of their lifetimes, according to Forbes estimates. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. Job specializations: Sports/Fitness/Wellness. 16. arrow_forward. But it was only a matter of time: like many other philanthropic billionaires, Turner signed the Giving Pledge and will donate the majority of his wealth eventuallyhes just closer than most to reaching this goal. To republish, copy the HTML by clicking on the yellow button to the right; it includes our tracking pixel, all paragraph styles and hyperlinks, the author byline and credit to the Forward. The foundation dedicated $80 million to helping support healthcare and education systems as well as nonprofits and small businesses across the country. The Google guys, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, both moved up a couple of slots on the Forbes list, from 13 and 14 respectively to a tie for 11 this year. Lynn Schustermans Samson Resources lost $1 billion over the past year, according to Forbes, but Schusterman is still worth $1.5 billion and 236 on the Forbes list. (Bill Greene/The Boston Globe via Getty Images). Sheila Bromberg shares a laugh with Ringo Starr on a BBC talk show in May 2011. (Silver Screen Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). * Finance state of the richest Jews. Nearly two-thirds have yet to give away even a quarter of their wealth, meaning there are a lot more zeros earmarked for charities in the years to come. Their Arnold Ventures has pumped more than $57 million into policing initiatives, including a $2 million gift to the University of Cincinnati in 2020 to test new approaches for policing to reduce violence and cultivate trust between communities and police. Theyve also put nearly $100 million into programs focused on making prescription drugs cheaper and more accessible, $68 million into higher education initiatives and $22 million toward reproductive health causes. In 1994, he and his wife Marilyn established the Simons Foundation, which has been the primary giver to Math for America, a nonprofit that supports high school math and science teachers. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. (Getty Images). (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images). Former U.S. Sen. Carl Levin speaks at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2015. Lynn Schusterman's Samson Resources lost $1 billion over the past year, according to Forbes,. He was also a leading supporter of Birthright Israel, the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Zionist Organization of America, the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Israel American Council. In the wake of the January 6 insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, and with movements like QAnon on the rise, it's clear that millions across the United States subscribe . White nationalists and anti-trans feminists use the same conspiracies to target trans and Jewish folks. They include Tom Steyer, No. Amid the pandemic, many of Americas great philanthropists have opened their wallets to help halt the spread of Covid-19 and lessen its impact. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. For any individual questions, please contact Patrick Henry at swimcoachstaffingsolutions@yahoo.com or via phone at (817) 905.7665. The falling markets during the last year created ripples in the ranking of the world's Jewish Billionaires Mark Zuckerberg - who was ranked first in 2020 - lost most of his fortune and is now ranked seventh. (Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images). These 25 philanthropists are a collective $150 billion richer than they were a year ago, up 18% each on average. Specifically, the commitment is to ensure that 30% of the planet is protected in the most important places for biodiversity by 2030. 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