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$168.5B+ Total Tracked
3,260,375 Contributions
1999-2026 Date Range

Institutions by City

Browse museums and cultural organizations across the country

New York City NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art 20.9K Fordham Preparatory School 20.2K Museum of Modern Art 18.8K New York Public Library 17.3K Metropolitan Opera 17.1K God's Love We Deliver 11.3K Catholic Charities of New York 10.8K The Frick Collection 9.6K New York Landmarks Conservancy 7.9K American Museum of Natural History 7.5K Morgan Library and Museum 7.2K City Harvest 6.5K New York Philharmonic 6.5K Big Brothers Big Sisters of New York City 6.1K Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center 5.1K Intrepid Museum 5K Brooklyn Academy of Music 4.7K Carnegie Hall 4.7K 9/11 Memorial & Museum 3.9K Museum of the City of New York 3.8K Bronx Zoo 3.5K
Washington DC
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 30.1K National Gallery of Art 12.3K Smithsonian Institution 10.2K No Kid Hungry / Share Our Strength 3.9K National Museum of Women in the Arts 3.6K
Chicago IL
Art Institute of Chicago 12.9K Field Museum 12.3K Lincoln Park Zoo 9.1K Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago 6.2K Frank Lloyd Wright Trust 4.4K
Seattle WA
Pacific Northwest Ballet 8.8K Frye Art Museum 7.6K Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center 5.8K Washington Park Arboretum 5.2K ArtsFund 4.2K Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture 3.8K Museum of Flight 3.7K Northwest African American Museum 3.7K
Houston TX
Hermann Park Conservancy 8.1K Museum of Fine Arts in Houston 6K Houston Parks Board 5.3K Buffalo Bayou Partnership 5K Menil Collection 5K Houston Ballet 4.1K
Minneapolis MN
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities 13.6K Guthrie Theater 7.4K Walker Art Center 3.7K
Philadelphia PA
Barnes Foundation 9K Philadelphia Museum of Art 6.4K Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 5K
New Orleans LA
National WWII Museum 9.2K Audubon Zoo 4.8K National World War II Museum 4.3K
St. Louis MO
Saint Louis Art Museum 6.9K Missouri Botanical Garden 4K Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra 3.9K
Atlanta GA
Piedmont Healthcare Foundation 4.2K Atlanta Botanical Garden 4.1K Breman Museum 3.6K

Notable Patrons

Prominent philanthropists with Wikipedia biographies

Agnes Gund W
721 donations · 54 institutions
David Rockefeller W
277 donations · 22 institutions
Anne H. Bass W
218 donations · 16 institutions
Robert B. Menschel W
190 donations · 7 institutions
Leonard A. Lauder W
179 donations · 14 institutions
Mercedes T. Bass W
176 donations · 11 institutions
Shelby White W
174 donations · 17 institutions
Stephen A. Schwarzman W
163 donations · 8 institutions
Andrea Woodner W
161 donations · 8 institutions
Hester Diamond W
159 donations · 15 institutions
Conrad K. Harper W
154 donations · 7 institutions
Martha J. Fleischman W
151 donations · 10 institutions
Annette de la Renta W
147 donations · 9 institutions
Barbara Goldsmith W
144 donations · 8 institutions
Mimi Haas W
140 donations · 5 institutions
Calvin Trillin W
126 donations · 2 institutions
Katharine J. Rayner W
125 donations · 6 institutions
Robert B. Silvers W
124 donations · 7 institutions
Eugene V. Thaw W
122 donations · 5 institutions
Alejandro Santo Domingo W
120 donations · 4 institutions

Patron Leaderboards

Top individual and couple donors across all tracked institutions

Most Active Donors

1
Agnes Gund
721
2
Barbara G. Fleischman
302
3
David Rockefeller
277
4
Dian Woodner
230
5
Anne H. Bass
218
6
Samuel C. Butler
211
7
Louisa Stude Sarofim
198
8
Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III
198
9
Arthur L. Loeb
197
10
Joan Hardy Clark
195

Largest Donors

1
David H. Koch
$818M
2
Mortimer B. Zuckerman
$803M
3
Linda and Schuyler Sylvers
$608M
4
William H. Goodwin, Jr.
$513M
5
Marie-Josee and Henry Kravis
$507M
6
Fayez S. Sarofim
$400M
7
David M. Rubenstein
$357M
8
Susan and William S. Levine and Family
$351M
9
Stanley F. and Fiona Druckenmiller
$338M
10
Mercedes and Sid Bass
$320M

Recently Added

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Anne Wilder and Marc L. Hecht
couple
2
Brenda Pitts
individual
3
Eve R. Rogers
individual
4
Chris and Tony Augustine
couple
5
Lisa K. (MOR)
individual
6
Roger and Amy Ray
couple
7
Genevieve U. Anoff
individual
8
Donna Lee Owens and Megan Owens
couple
9
Laura Schachtrup
individual
10
Andrew Sprogis
couple

Top Donors by Institution

Leading individual patrons at the largest cultural organizations

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1
Frank E. Richardson
97
2
Shelby White
96
3
Charlotte C. Weber
93
4
Annette de la Renta
91
5
Richard L. Chilton, Jr.
80
6
Karen B. Cohen
76
7
Joyce Frank Menschel
76
8
Oscar L. Tang
75
9
Alejandro Santo Domingo
72
10
Lulu C. Wang
72

Museum of Modern Art

1
Agnes Gund
205
2
Mimi Haas
122
3
Maja Oeri
110
4
Peter Norton
106
5
Dian Woodner
97
6
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
96
7
Ronnie F. Heyman
94
8
Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder
91
9
Emily Rauh Pulitzer
91
10
Marie-Josee Kravis
83

Metropolitan Opera

1
Ann Ziff
56
2
James W. Kinnear
50
3
Robert L. Turner
49
4
Leonard S. Coleman
49
5
Mercedes T. Bass
48
6
William R. Miller
47
7
G. Morris Gurley
46
8
Frayda and George Lindemann
45
9
Frayda B. Lindemann
43
10
Chad J. Shampine
43

The Frick Collection

1
Barbara G. Fleischman
73
2
Diane Allen Nixon
70
3
Helen Clay Chace
69
4
Irene Roosevelt Aitken
63
5
Mrs. Henry Clay Frick II
63
6
Edward Lee Cave
58
7
Arthur L. Loeb
57
8
Agnes Gund
57
9
Elizabeth F. Stribling and Guy Robinson
56
10
Stephen A. Geiger
55

New York Public Library

1
Joan Hardy Clark
183
2
Samuel C. Butler
173
3
Robert Liberman
119
4
Marshall Rose
118
5
Barbara G. Fleischman
117
6
Calvin Trillin
113
7
Patricia D. Klingenstein
111
8
Barbara Goldsmith
108
9
James H. Duffy
107
10
Paul LeClerc
101

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16
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17
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18
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19
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Top Funds

Largest donation programs by patron count

1
Annual Contributors United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
19.1K
2
Contributors to the Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art
10.2K
3
Donors New York Public Library
8.8K
4
The Collection United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
8.6K
5
Museum Donors Museum of Fine Arts Boston
8.1K
6
Our Patrons Metropolitan Opera
7.6K
7
Donors The Walters Art Museum
6.8K
8
Individual Donors Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities
6.7K
9
Members Florence Griswold Museum
6.6K
10
Members Museum of Modern Art
6.5K
11
Individual Support Boise Art Museum
6.3K
12
Honor Roll of Giving Seton Hall University School of Law
6.2K
13
Development Report Denver Art Museum
5.9K
14
Gifts and Grants American Museum of Natural History
5.9K
15
Donors Museum of Modern Art
5.5K
16
Museum and Memorial Supporters National WWI Museum and Memorial
5.4K
17
Individual and Foundation Gifts New York Public Library
5.3K
18
Our Supporters New York Landmarks Conservancy
5.3K
19
Donors Village Theatre
5.1K
20
Honor Roll YWCA Nashville & Middle Tennessee
5.1K
21
Donors Hermann Park Conservancy
5.1K
22
Special Thanks to Our Donors Liberty Wildlife
5.1K
23
Annual Fund Contributors Lincoln Park Zoo
5K
24
The Museum of Modern Art Donors and Members Museum of Modern Art
5K
25
Donors Milwaukee Art Museum
5K
26
Our Donors Hosparus Health
4.9K
27
Donors Morgan Library and Museum
4.8K
28
The Voice Must Be Heard Metropolitan Opera
4.8K
29
Donors Oakland Zoo
4.8K
30
Individual Giving Chicago Botanic Garden
4.7K

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