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

Introduction

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

1. THE JAMES McDONNELL III and JOHN MCDONNELL FAMILIES and the JAMES S. McDONNELL FOUNDATION--$8 million to PRINCETON UNIVERSITY (N.J.) for a new physics building to be named after James S. McDonnell Jr., the aerospace pioneer. All three McDonnells are Princeton alumni.

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1. FRANK MORSANI and CAROL MORSANI--$8 million to the COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER TAMPA (Fla.), a six-year-old community-endowment fund from this Tampa Bay auto dealer and his wife. The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center will receive the lion's share of the donation--some $5 million. In recognition of the gift, the center's Festival Hall will be renamed Carol Morsani Hall.

3. DONALD L. SAUNDERS--$7.5 million to COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTROPIES (Mass.), America's oldest federated charity. The gift comes in two parts. The first $500,000 is an immediate pledge to the capital portion of the centennial campaign. The additional $7 million endowment is in the form of a bequest. Its exact purpose is yet to be determined. Saunders is chairman and CEO of Saunders Real Estate & Hotels in Boston. He is an alumnus of Brown University, and is on the board of the Jerusalem Foundation and other charities. The other family members included in this gift are Saunders' mother, SHIRLEY; his daughters, LISA and PAM, and their husbands; his granddaughters, TAL and ARIEL; and his wife, LIV ULLMAN, the distinguished Norwegian actress, director, and author.

3. THE FAMILY OF PRESTON ROBERT TISCH--$7.5 million to the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN from this alumni family. Of this, $1.5 million will name a new indoor tennis facility. The remaining $6 million will go toward a new humanities building for the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. It will house faculty offices, seminar rooms, and classrooms. PRESTON TISCH, his wife JOAN TISCH, and daughter, LAURIE TISCH SUSSMAN, are all Michigan graduates. Tisch is co-chair and co-CEO of Loews Corp. and also owns 50 percent of the New York Giants. In 1989, he established the Preston R. Tisch Professorship of Judaic Studies at the University.

5. JOHN PRICE and MARCIA PRICE--$7 million to the UTAH MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS for a new facility. Both Prices are alumni of the University of Utah. He is also chairman and CEO of J.P. Realty in Salt Lake City.

5. STANLEY HOWE and HELEN HOWE--$6 million and $1 million in furniture to IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY from the former chairman of Hon Industries and his wife to construct and furnish the Engineering and Teaching Research Complex. TOTAL: $7 million.

7. JAMES R. CARREKER--$6.5 million to the GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY for the school of electrical engineering from the chairman and CEO of Aspect Telecommunications, of San Jose, Calif., which develops and markets call-center systems.

8. DAVID GEFFEN--$5 million to the MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART in Los Angeles. The gift will be counted toward the museum's $25 million endowment drive. In recognition of the gift, the building known as MOCA at the Temporary Contemporary will be renamed "The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA." Opened in 1983 in two vast warehouses in the Little Tokyo section of Los Angeles, the Temporary Contemporary was meant to house exhibitions only until a permanent structure could be built six blocks away. But it was such a success that the museum trustees decided to keep it open. Geffen also contributed $1 million to the ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL (Tenn.). The hospital held a benefit in Los Angeles which raised $1.1 million--until Geffen doubled the night's take with a $1 million check. Total: $6 million.

8. HAROLD F. OHLENDORF and BRUCE OHLENDORF--$6 million to RHODES COLLEGE (Tenn.).

8. SARAH M. SEAY and CHARLES E. SEAY--$6 million to the SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL FOUNDATION (Texas) to establish the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Center for Emergency Pediatric Orthopedic Treatment and Research. The gift will be divided among the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Children's Medical Center, and the Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.

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