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

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

HONORABLE MENTIONS
Other known gifts of over $1 million in 1996.

The Top 10 Anonymous Gifts of 1996

New 1997 Gifts

25. GEORGE L. GRAZIADIO and REVA GRAZIADIO--$15 million pledge over three years to PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY (Calif.) for its School of Business and Management. Graziadio is the head of Imperial Bancorp.

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25. PETER KARMANOS JR.--a $15 million grant to the BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE from this Michigan businessman, in honor of his wife. The institute is affiliated with Wayne State University and the Detroit Medical Center. The gift is part of a five-year, $75 million campaign.

25. GORDON E. MOORE and BETTY MOORE--$15 million to the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY, for the "New Materials Initiative," a program that "will harness the work of the world's top physicists, chemists, and engineers, leading to the creation of new materials of all types." Gordon Moore is co-founder and chairman of Intel Corp. and a Berkeley alumnus. He is also chairman of the board of trustees of Caltech.

34. WILLIAM F. SCANDLING--Gifts totaling $14.75 million: They include $10 million to HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH College (N.Y.) from this 1949 graduate. In 1948, Scandling and his two classmates/business partners offered Hobart College students the opportunity to eat on campus for $12.50 a week, three meals a day, six days a week, the food served family style. This business became the flagship for Saga Corp., the nationwide college- and university-food-service business now owned by Marriott. Scandling's gift is the largest in the colleges' history. His total gifts to the colleges add up to more than $17 million. He was chairman of their board of trustees from 1972 to 1983. The colleges' Scandling Center honors Scandling and his late wife, Margaret. ALSO--$4.75 million to the UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER (N.Y.) for the Graduate School of Education and Human Development.

35. 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.

35. 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.

37. 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 toward the construction of the planned Watson Life Sciences building. TOTAL: $12.5 million.

38. 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.

39. 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.

40. 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. 12, above.)

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