List of philanthropists
| Name | Amount given | Cause |
|---|
| Jamsetji Tata | $102.4 billion[28] | Education, healthcare |
| Bill Gates | $79 billion[60] | Healthcare, extreme poverty, education, access to information technology |
| Warren Buffett | $32.1 billion[61] | Healthcare, education, AIDS-prevention, sanitation |
| George Soros | $32 billion[62] | Healthcare, anti-fascist publications, human rights, economic, legal, and social reform |
| Azim Premji | $21 billion[63] | Education, healthcare |
| MacKenzie Scott | $14 billion[64] | Racial equality, LGBTQ+ equality, functional democracy, and climate change[65] |
| Michael Bloomberg | $12.7 billion[citation needed] | Environment, public health, arts, government innovation and education |
| Li Ka-shing | $10.7 billion[citation needed] | Education, healthcare |
| Andrew Carnegie | $9.5 billion[citation needed] | Libraries, education, peace |
| Elon Musk | $7.6 billion[66] | Science education, COVID-19 relief, renewable energy |
| Chuck Feeney | $6.8 billion[citation needed] | Healthcare, youth, aging, poverty, human rights |
| Alisher Usmanov | $5.8 billion[67][68] | Art, science, sport, healthcare |
| The Sainsbury family | $5 billion[67][68] | Art, education, human rights, youth, aging |
| Christopher Hohn | $4.5 billion[69] | Youth, poverty, education |
| Carlos Slim Helu | $4.2 billion[69] | Arts, education, healthcare, sports, downtown restoration |
| Alwaleed Philanthropies | $4 billion[70] | Alwaleed Philanthropies collaborates with a range of philanthropic, government and educational organizations to combat poverty, empower women and youth, develop communities, provide disaster relief and create cultural understanding through education. |
| The Weston family | $2.3 billion[67][68] | Innovations, healthcare, aging, environment |
| Phil Knight | $2 billion[71] | Education, healthcare, intercollegiate athletics |
| James E. Stowers | $2 billion[72] | Healthcare |
| Hansjoerg Wyss | $1.9 billion[69] | Climate change, poverty |
| Howard Hughes | $1.56 billion[citation needed] | Healthcare |
| Ted Turner | $1 billion[citation needed] | United Nations Foundation |
| Stephan Schmidheiny | $1.5 billion[69] | Environment, sustainable development |
| Vitalik Buterin | $1 billion[57] | Donated $1 billion worth of the cryptocurrencies Shiba Inu and Ether to a COVID-19 relief fund in India. |
| Michael Jackson | $500 Million+ [73][74] | Healthcare, poverty, youth, cancer research, education |
| T. Boone Pickens | $500 Million[57] | Education |