The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.

Introduction

The 1996 SLATE 60
The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1996.

The Also-Rans
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

Competitive Generosity 101

31. M. (BILL) GATTON--$14 million to the UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY from this Tennessee businessman and alumnus of the university's College of Business and Economics. Gatton owns automobile dealerships in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas, and has banking interests in several Kentucky cities. The gift endows scholarships, professorships, and a fund for faculty and staff development at the business school.

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32. LEWIS M. MANDERSON JR.--$14 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA for the COLLEGE OF COMMERCE AND BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Manderson is an advertising and venture-capital executive--president of Manderson and Associates Inc. and Cordova Capital Inc. in Atlanta. The gift is the largest private gift in the history of the school. About $5 million will go to the school in the form of a bequest, for which the school will rename the business school's flagship classroom facility Bidgood-Manderson Hall. The rest of the money will be a series of deferred contributions used to create permanent endowments within the business school. In 1985, the Graduate School of Business was named the Lewis Manderson Graduate School of Business after Manderson gave the commerce college $1 million. In 1991, he gave the school an additional $1 million as part of another fund-raising campaign.

33. LENOX BAKER JR. and FRANCES WATT BAKER--$10 million to the JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE (Md.) from these physicians. Lenox Baker, 54, is a cardiac surgeon and senior partner in Mid-Atlantic Cardiothoracic Surgeons Ltd. in Norfolk, Va. He is also co-chairman of the Johns Hopkins Initiative and a trustee of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Frances Baker, 55, serves on the university's national alumni council. The two met after their first day of classes as college juniors in 1961, having transferred the same year from other schools, where they enrolled in a five-year program that led to undergraduate and medical degrees. ALSO--an additional $2.5 million to DAVIDSON COLLEGE (N.C.) in support of the departments of biology and psychology, the life sciences. The money will go oward the construction of the planned Watson Life Sciences building. TOTAL: $12.5 million.

34. RUBIN BROWN--$12 million to the UCLA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. This gift is the largest gift made to the school's pediatric program. Brown is owner and president of Excel Electric, an electronics-wholesale business. The money will be used to expand and improve pediatric neurological research and treatment, and will primarily benefit children with developmental problems associated with severe epilepsy.

35. ROBERT B. GOERGEN and PAMELA GOERGEN--$10.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER. Goergen is chairman of the university's board of trustees. Of this figure, $10 million will be used to establish an endowment in support of undergraduate programs at the university. An additional $100,000 a year for the next five years will be used to fund awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Robert Goergen is an entrepreneur and chairman of Blyth Industries.

36. STEVE BALLMER--$10 million to HARVARD UNIVERSITY from Microsoft's executive vice president, part of a joint $25 million contribution with Chairman Bill Gates to benefit research and teaching in computer science and electrical engineering. (See No. 9, above.)

37. FRANK BATTEN--$10 million to the UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA for programs in entrepreneurial leadership.

38. FIONA BIGGS DRUCKENMILLER and STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER--$10 million to the SPENCE SCHOOL (N.Y.) from this trustee and 1980 alumna of Spence. Fiona Druckenmiller is also on the development committee for Human Rights Watch and supports the Gay Men's Health Crisis. Druckenmiller is managing director of George Soros' Quantum Fund, and on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation and the Rheedlen Centers for Children and Families.

39. JOHN BOLER and MARY JO BOLER--a $10 million pledge from this Chicago business executive and his wife to JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY (Ohio) as a 1:1 challenge. The university will rename its business school in the couple's honor. John Boler is a 1956 graduate of the university and chairman of the Boler Co., a car and truck manufacturer in Illinois.

40. JACK BORGENICHT--$10 million to the COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY (Va.) from this retired garment-industry executive.

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