Honorable Mentions
110 other known gifts of more than $5 million in 1999.

Introduction

The 1999 Slate 60
The 60 largest American charitable contributions of 1999.

Anonymous Gifts From Individuals, 1999
$1 million and above

Honorable Mentions
110 other known gifts of more than $5 million in 1999.

67. JOHN S. BROOME—$5 million to CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY for its new Channel Islands campus to plan and build a library and media center from this rancher whose family has been in Ventura County, Calif., for more than 100 years.

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67. JAMES F. CAIRD—$5 million to ALBANY ACADEMY (N.Y.). Caird began an insurance business in 1966 in Los Angeles with a few hundred dollars, a used typewriter, and borrowed furniture. Last year, he sold the company.

67. WILFRED R. and NAN J. CAMERON—$5 million to WASHINGTON HOSPITAL in Pittsburgh to help fund a 67,500-square-foot wellness center from these heirs to the Cameron Beverage fortune.

67. FINN M. W. and BARBARA CASPERSEN—$5 million to DREW UNIVERSITY (N.J.) to endow and renovate the School of Graduate Studies from chairman of Knickerbocker Management Inc., a private management firm.

67. TRISTRAM and RUTH COLKET—$5 million to ACADIA TRAILS FOREVER (Maine) to create an endowment to maintain the Acadia National Park's trails. Tristram Colket is the owner of Tekloc Enterprises, a private-investment company, and a member of the Dorrance family of Campbell Soup fame.

67. THEODORE "TED" and CONSTANCE CONSTANT—$5 million to OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY (Va.). He is the former owner of Norfolk Beverage Co.

67. GERALD B. CRAMER—$5 million to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY (N.Y.) for the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs for the school's programs in international relations. Cramer is a New York City investment adviser.

67. PAUL and CAROL DAVID—$5 million to the CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION for the campaign for the Cole Eye Institute from the founder and president of Camelot Music and his wife.

67. IRENE DIAMOND—$5 million to HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH. Diamond is president of the Irene Diamond Fund Inc. and was the president of the Aaron Diamond Foundation until its close in December 1996.

67. FIONA BIGGS DRUCKENMILLER and STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER—$5 million to HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH from the organization's capital campaign chair and her husband, a managing director of the Quantum Fund.

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