Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Biggest Giver in 2013

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Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported Monday that Zuckerberg's donation was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young couple at the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most generous Americans in 2013.

The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion.

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[Jack 0Neill]

calling BS. Gates and his foundtaions/charities give crazy high amounts and probably exceeded this.

[DirtyLarry Veteran]

calling BS. Gates and his foundtaions/charities give crazy high amounts and probably exceeded this.

Well if you read the article, you would see why they are not on the list this year...

 

Some of the nation's biggest givers do not appear on the 2013 list, not because they stopped being generous, but because their donations in 2013 were counted as pledges in previous years.

For example, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, gave their foundation slightly more than $181.3 million last year, but they were paying off a pledge of about $3.3 billion they made in 2004. CNN-founder Ted Turner and Berkshire Hathaway chairman Warren Buffett also made large gifts toward previous pledges.

 

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What does that "Silicon Valley nonprofit" do?

[Hum]

^ I guess it was kept anonymous.