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Forbes Billion Dollar Donors List Revealed

September 10, 2009 | Posted by bLavish as Tid Bits & News at 9:50 am | Comments off

Forbes’  Billion Dollar Donors doesn’t leave you very surprised by the philanthropic individuals listed, with Bill Gates always in first place, but we do have a few newbies.

Out of 793 billionaires worldwide, Forbes has revealed the top fourteen philanthropic donors that have pledged over $1 billion.

1 Bill Gates, $28 billion donated.
2 George Soros, $7.2 billion
3 Gordon Moore (shown at right), $6.8 billion
4 Warren Buffett, $6.7 billion
5 Eli Broad, $2 billion
6 James Stowers, $1.9 billion
7 Herbert and Marion Sandler, $1.5 billion
8 Michael Bloomberg, $1.5 billion
9 Li Ka-shing, $1.37 billion
10 Dietmar Hopp, $1.25 billion
11 Michael Dell $1.2 billion
12 Klaus Tschira, $1.1 billion
13 Stephen Schmidheiny $1 billion
14 Ted Turner, $1 billion

Anybody you are surprised