Michael R. Bloomberg topped the Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual Philanthropy 50 list, with the late Barron Hilton, Eric and Wendy Schmidt, Jim Walton, and the late Thomas Lord all giving or bequeathing more than $1 billion....

The donor-advised fund sponsor awarded 1.5 million grants to 155,000 charities totaling a record $7.28 million in 2019, an increase of 39 percent on a year-over-year basis....

The foundation has announced an expansion of its funding for New York City organizations using the arts to address mental health stigma, trauma, and challenges related to aging-related diseases....

The gift from the East Texas Medical Center Foundation comes six days after the University of Texas System announced a proposed medical school in Tyler, which would be the first such school in East Texas....

A study commissioned by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation found that a sample group of the largest U.S. foundations have an estimated 13.5 percent of their U.S.-based financial assets invested with women- and/or minority-owned firms....

The gift from brothers Jim and Thomas Duff will help fund construction of a $160 million, 200,000-square-foot building featuring lecture halls and chemistry, biology, physics, engineering, and computer science labs....

The latest cohort of Open Society Fellows includes sixteen individuals who will receive project support and stipends ranging from $80,000 to $100,000 to address the problem of income inequality....

The grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation will support the hospital's $300 million expansion plan, which includes construction of a $113 million pediatric outpatient facility....

Grants were awarded in support of social justice storytelling efforts designed to lift up unheard and traditionally marginalized voices, as well as strategies to support access to quality care in rural Northern California....

Awarded through CZI's Rare As One Project, the grants will provide funding, training, community mentorship, and capacity-building services to organizations working to establish a network of researchers and clinicians, convene community members, and develop a research agenda....

In their latest annual letter, Bill and Melinda Gates note that, twenty years ago, they would have guessed global health would be their foundation's riskiest work and U.S. education its surest bet....

An analysis by Grantmakers for Education of requests on the crowdfunding platform found that while teachers at high-poverty schools made the majority of requests and received the majority of dollars raised, requests from teachers at low-poverty schools since 2017 have been funded at higher rates....

The Morgan Stanley Alliance for Children's Mental Health will provide nonprofit partners with the funding and resources needed to raise awareness of and reduce stigma around anxiety and depression in young people....

Awarded through the foundation's Safety and Justice Challenge, the grants will provide additional support for efforts already under way to reduce over-incarceration and address racial and ethnic disparities in local criminal justice systems....

The addition of the co-founder, chair, and CEO of private equity firm Blackstone and the Canadian business magnate boosts to two hundred and six the number of individuals and couples pledging to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes....

The gift will support the Rybakov Prize, a global award for changemakers in education, and other efforts to ensure quality education for all....

The one-to-one match from John and Tashia Morgridge will establish or enhance endowed funds for professorships or chairs and provide annual income, in perpetuity, in support of faculty research and salaries....

The lead gift to UCLA Health's campaign to create a $50 million endowment for the Simms/Mann–UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology includes a matching fund of $6 million and will support an expansion of the center's psychosocial care services....

The latest staff and board announcements from the philanthropic sector....

The bequest from life board member Phyllis Herndon Brissenden, who supported the opera company from its inaugural season in 1976 until her death in December, will more than double the company's general endowment....

The gift will help underwrite an expansion of the Marcus Neuroscience Institute, a streamlining of the neurological and neurosurgical care it offers, and the creation of an interventional radiology room....

The gift from C.T. and Kelley Fitzpatrick will establish the C.T. and Kelley Fitzpatrick Center for Value Investing, fund research in the field, and support enhancements to Crimson Tide athletic facilities....

Scientists at the Lieber Institute for Brain Development have found that people with autism appear to suffer malfunctions in a cell that produces myelin, a coating around nerve fibers that facilitates electrical communication across the brain....

The gift will support the renovation of the culturally significant Herald Examiner Building in downtown Los Angeles, as well as an endowment for the Indian Gaming and Tribal Self-Governance programs within the Indian Legal Program at the university's Sandra Day O'Conner College of Law....

News and staff announcements from community foundations in Alaska, California, Connecticut, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, and Pennsylvania....

The company's second gift to the museum will help fund visitor services programs, a corporate leadership council, acquisitions, scholarship and research, educational and public programs, exhibitions, and technology upgrades....

The Voluntary Support of Education survey by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education found that giving to institutions of higher education increased for the tenth consecutive year, up 3.6 percent on an inflation-adjusted year-over-year basis....

The gift from an anonymous donor will be used to match, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, gifts in support of the health system's $150 million commitment to address the mental and behavioral health needs of children in the state....