Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook, and his wife, Priscilla Chan, led the philanthropic pack in 2013 with a
nearly $1-billion gift to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, helping to catapult the organization to the ranks of the biggest foundations in the United States.
The California couple was followed by the Texas energy tycoon George Mitchell, who pioneered hydraulic-fracturing for finding natural gas.
When Mr. Mitchell died in July, he left an estimated $750-million
to his family foundation, which supports conservation and sustainability. A key goal for the foundation: to make sure the fracking technology he created doesn’t cause serious environmental damage.
And Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife, Penelope, gave $500-million for cancer research at the Oregon Health & Science University Foundation. The gift came with one major, anxiety-inducing stipulation: The institution has to match the gift in two years or lose it.
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