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2008 Charitable Giving $307.65 BILLION BY SOURCE OF CONTRIBUTION Corporations $14.50 5% Foundations $41.21 13% Bequests $22.66 7% Individuals $229.28 75% Source: Giving USA Foundation™ / Giving USA 2009
Types of recipients of contributions, Arts, culture, and humanities $12.79 4% Public-society benefit $23.88 8% Environment and animals $6.58 2% Foundations $29.50 10.0% Human services $25.88 9% International affairs $13.30 4% Unallocated giving $19.38 6% Health $21.64 7% Types of recipients of contributions, 2008 Total = $307.65 billion (in billions) Religion $106.89 35% Education $40.94 13% Source: Giving USA FoundationTM / Giving USA 2009 Gifts to foundations $32.65 11%
The Philanthropy 50: Top 10 Americans Who Gave the Most in 2009 Rank Donor Total amount committed Years on list 1 Stanley F. and Fiona B. Druckenmiller Finance $705,000,000 2 John M. Templeton Finance $573,000,000 Bequest 3 William H. (Bill) III and Melinda F. Gates Technology $350,000,000 5 4 Michael R. Bloomberg Media and entertainment $254,000,000 Estimated 6 Louise Dieterle Nippert Family wealth, Investments $185,000,000 George Soros Finance $150,000,000 7 Eli and Edythe L. Broad Finance, Real estate $105,200,000 10 8 J. Ronald and Frances Terwilliger Real estate $102,004,746 9 William P. Clements Jr. Oil $100,000,000 Pierre and Pam Omidyar Technology $92,000,000
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