Billionaire tech donors like chasing “breakthroughs,” especially when it comes to their climate giving. What does this oft-repeated nomenclature say about their mindset—and what’s missing from their philanthropy?
Read MoreBillionaire venture capitalist John Doerr and his wife, Ann, made a record-breaking gift for a new climate school at Stanford. Climate funding on this level is needed, but is an elite institution really the best destination for it?
Read MoreMark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan’s unprecedented support for election infrastructure in 2020 has been among their most controversial giving. Though the Facebook royalty aren’t involved, that strand of philanthropy continues.
Read MoreCraig Newmark, long a major supporter of journalism and the fight against disinformation, has been expanding his focus to cybersecurity for both individuals and society. He’d like to see more funders do the same.
Read MoreIn recent years, Eric Schmidt and Wendy Schmidt have ramped up giving in areas ranging from cutting-edge scientific research to developing young leaders. We unpack their many giving vehicles and philanthropic initiatives.
Read MoreNorthern California’s charities face a set of unique challenges, made all the more difficult by the ongoing pandemic. We spoke with several fundraisers in the region to see how they have fared in tough times.
Read MoreThe conflict in Ukraine has sparked a humanitarian crisis at a scale the region hasn’t seen since World War II. Here are some of the ways philanthropic funders have stepped up for refugees and people staying in country.
Read MoreThe Just Trust spun off from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative last year with $350 million in funding. Now that its inaugural grants have gone out, we checked in with CEO Ana Zamora about its goals and outlook.
Read MoreElon Musk donated $5.7 billion last year, leaving no indication of where it went. Rather than guess, we thought we’d pose a more interesting question—what would it look like if Musk actually became a good philanthropist?
Read MoreThe Chronicle of Philanthropy’s annual list of the nation’s 50 biggest donors reads a lot like a return to 2019—hardly a narrative of surging progressive giving. Even if activist giving is on the upswing, big donors aren’t driving it.
Read MoreDespite—or because of—the pandemic, tech billionaires have had a lucrative few years. New Giving Pledge signatories from 2020 and 2021 include plenty of U.S. tech winners, many of them very young. Here are a few to watch.
Read MoreThe Omidyars are among philanthropy’s most fascinating funders, but their giving has been rather muted lately. We look at their affiliated organizations’ grantmaking and weigh the potential effects of a contracting stock market.
Read MoreIt’s finally happened. The Gates Foundation has four new trustees, three of whom are newcomers. Here’s a bit about each of them, and what this new arrangement may tell us about the world’s largest foundation.
Read MoreMacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates have partnered once already, and seem to be influencing each other’s giving. We hypothesize about what a more extensive team-up could accomplish, and what it would take to get there.
Read MoreWe recently published an in-depth paper on the philanthropy of mega-donors hailing from the tech industry, as part of IP’s State of American Philanthropy project. Author Mike Scutari walks through some of our key takeaways.
Read MoreSilicon Valley’s wealthy techies sometimes get flack for not giving enough in their own backyard. Nicole Taylor, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s president and CEO, is working to change that.
Read MoreSaid to be the richest Utah native, The Trade Desk’s CEO and co-founder Jeff T. Green signed the Giving Pledge and plans to donate 90% of his wealth. What’s this nascent megadonor’s past philanthropy like? And what’s to come?
Read MoreIt’s hard to speculate about the giving of someone as weird as the world’s current richest man. But despite his Trump-esque Twitter habit, in many ways, he’s just another billionaire.
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropy of the Facebook co-founder, is now a climate funder. CZI is backing efforts to remove carbon from the atmosphere—an essential but also contentious area in climate action.
Read MoreEven as their relative clout inevitably shrinks, legacy institutions will need to engage with today’s super-rich. By bringing Laurene Powell Jobs onto its board, the Ford Foundation’s doing that in an unusual way. Will it pay off?
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