Benefactors
Gracias. Merci. Shukran. 谢谢你. In every language, it means thank you. Thank you for sustaining Wikimedia and benefiting readers around the world. We are proud to list your name on this page, which celebrates those who gave at a very high level. Thank you again. We are honored to have you with us.
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Legacy Gifts
Your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation ensures that Wikipedia is here for the next generation. Learn more about Legacy Gifts.
This page reflects gifts received as of January 1, 2014. See Benefactors 2014-2015.
Major Benefactors
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Laura and John Arnold
- Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
- Antoine Bello
- Brin Wojcicki Foundation
- Cards Against Humanity
- Charina Endowment Fund
- Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund
- craigslist Charitable Fund
- Google Matching Gifts
- Mary Graham
- Humble Bundle
- John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
- Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
- Jim Pacha
- The Rothschild Foundation
- Stavros Niarchos Foundation
- Stanton Foundation
- Two Sigma Investments LLC
- Anonymous Donors (6)
Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)
- Apple Matching Gift Program
- Charina Endowment Fund
- Dalio Foundation, Inc.
- Fund for Second Nature
- Spencer Glendon and Lisa Tung
- Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program
- Keel Foundation
- Jack Little
- MathWorks
- Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation
- The Shor Family Foundation
- Kimberly Sweidy & Raymie Stata
- Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
- Tides Foundation
- Tripling Elephants
- Yardi Systems
- Anonymous Donors (7)
Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)
- John E. Abele
- The Aber D. Unger Foundation
- Brad Abernethy
- The Bitcoin Community
- Tor Braham
- Brickell Analytics LLC
- Chris Brown
- Annette Campbell-White
- John Caulkins
- James Chambers
- Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
- CNCRepair.com
- Carl de Marcken
- William Deramus
- Ranae DeSantis
- The Donnelley Foundation
- Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
- The Durst Organization LP
- Jennifer Ann Eckstine
- Douglas Ferguson
- Michael Fine (Mediander)
- 4Subsea
- The Grainger Foundation
- Graphics Press, LLC
- The Gray Family (Calgary, AB)
- Holly Gray
- William and Lorna Hattler
- Urs Hölzle
- Michael Hollihan-Sarmiento
- Home Improvement Leads
- John Horne
- Dave Humm
- William F Hummel
- George Jankovic
- Igor Kopylov
- Steve Kass
- Saori & Takashi Kousaka
- Lawrence & Elaine Irell Foundation
- The Lehoczky Escobar Family
- Level 39
- Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
- Markle Foundation
- In memory of the late Colin Marks
- Bill and Marilyn McCune
- In memory of Joseph K. McLaughlin
- Metz Family Foundation
- Roberto Mignone
- Fred Miller
- Sheila Mossman
- Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro
- Anton Murashov
- Newgen KnowledgeWorks
- Newsmax Media
- The Nia/Zahiri Foundation
- Open Data Institute
- Shyam Patel
- P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust
- PediaPress GmbH
- Yana and Stephen Peel
- Perforce Foundation
- Drew Perkins
- In memory of Pedro Petersen
- Pinion Street Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
- Post Investment Group
- William Prinzmetal
- Ed Reed
- RetailMeNot
- Rick and Susan Goings Foundation
- Philip Rogers
- Bow and Erina Ruggeri
- Ruth and Peter Metz Family Foundation.
- In memory of Jerry Salo
- Isai Scheinberg
- Scooter Software
- Selz Foundation
- Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
- The Shifting Foundation, in honor of Samuel M. Seaman
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Silverleaf Foundation
- Mark Heising and Liz Simons
- Russel Simmons
- Susan Isabel Foundation
- The Montgomery Family Foundation
- Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
- Tupperware
- Jaime and Elliot Turner
- Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
- William Van der Kloot
- Donors of YourCause
- David and Monica Zwirner
- Anonymous Donors (83)
Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)
- ACON Laboratories, Inc.
- AIG Matching Grants Program
- Alex Aizman
- Amina Omar Assem Akil
- David R. Albrecht
- In memory of Tim Allen
- AmazonSmile Foundation
- America's Charities
- American Express Company Employee Giving Program
- Amgen Foundation
- In loving memory of Professor T. R. Anantharaman, U.C. College, Alwaye, India
- In memory of Sam & Lillian Anderman
- Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
- Dalibor Antonić
- Greg Apodaca
- Maite Arango
- Etienne Ardant
- Dimitris Armaos
- Ascend Capital
- Aspera
- Jesse Ausubel
- François Badelon
- Prabhu & Rina Balasubramanian
- Juliana & James Bancroft
- R & A Bandela
- Andrew Barcus and Cheryl True
- Cori Bargmann
- Gloria Barrack
- Baseline Telecom, Inc
- Douglas Bates and Mini Pathria
- Kathy Bates
- Peter Baumann
- Ben Bayer
- Jack Baylis
- Beach Audio
- Heather Bendler
- Stefan Bengtsson
- Andy & Elliot Berndt
- Jayashree and K.S. Bhaskar
- Butch Biendara
- Big Wheel Brigade
- Bill, Sonoma County, CA USA
- Graeme Birchall
- Bitcoin VPS by LibertyVPS
- Brent Blumenstein
- Boeing Co. Matching Gifts
- David C. Bohnett
- Artem Bolgar
- Honoring Beverly & George Bond
- James S. Bostwick
- Bill and Joann Boyd
- BMT Micro, Inc.
- Joseph C. & Carol M. Brandt
- Barbara Breithaupt
- Bright Horizon Fund
- Daniel Brönnimann
- Phil Brown
- Thomas Buhr
- Barry Buzan
- David Bydeley
- In honor of Glen Cain
- Brian Cairns
- Nina Callas
- In honor of Donald Thomas Campbell
- Craig Campbell
- Rob Capps
- Timothy Carey
- Raul Carmenate
- Jason Carroll
- Adam Carte
- Sally Cartwright
- William Cassidy
- Casual Connect
- Caithness Foundation
- CedarCide
- Vint Cerf
- Ian Chan
- Nathan Chan
- Channel Factory
- Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
- Jim Chervenak
- Stuart Cheshire
- Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
- James Cho and Sophia Kim
- In loving memory of N.Gandhi Chowdary, Penumuli
- Michael Choy and Shannon Moffett
- Nicholas Chu
- Michelle Chuang
- Charles Clark
- In memory of Mattie Ruth Galloway Clark
- Edouard Cole
- In Memory of Giuseppe Colnaghi
- Ryan Conlon
- John and Lenore Cooney
- Thomas Cooper
- Tom Cooper
- CouponFollow
- couponlab.com
- CouponLawn
- Coupon Traveller
- Stone Coxhead
- Meg Coyle
- CRAIC Technologies Inc.
- Critical Mass
- In memory of Oliver Cromwell
- Custom On It
- Burt and Diana Cutler Family Foundation
- Cyan
- Daboosh Family, Israel
- Fred Dart, FTDI
- Claudine Co and Danny Dawson
- The Davidoff Family Fund
- Laszlo Deak
- Carole Deitrich
- Department of Signals and Systems Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden
- Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
- Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
- Dev Bootcamp
- Hester Diamond
- Alex Dingle
- Sibbald Doan
- In Memory of Paul L. Donoho
- Jack Dorsey
- Matthew Dorton
- Kathleen Doster
- Frank H. Douglas
- Michael and Denise Doyen
- In memory of Kathy Dunn
- Philippe Dunsky, Dunsky Energy Consulting
- Edgar Durbin
- Susanne Durst
- The Durst Family
- Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak
- Richard Eaton and Brooks Eaton
- Kenneth Eddings
- Ron Bailey and Bill Edwards
- Larry and Kas Eldridge
- Evgenia Emets
- Enablement Fund
- Todd Enders
- Charles Engelke and Laurie White
- entumovil.net
- Davide G. Erro
- EWCY Foundation
- Peter Farrell
- Damian Farry
- Megan and Matthew Feinberg
- Yoseph Feit
- Arlen Feldman & Adriana Wood
- Dave Ferguson and Nidhi Kalra
- Renée B. Fisher Foundation
- Gerald and Nancy Fishman
- In memory of Joseph A Fleck Jr
- Margaret Flickinger
- Carla and Charlie Flournoy
- Norman & Jill Fogelsong
- David Ford
- Robert Ford
- Wesley Ford
- William Ford
- Gregory Fox
- Bill & Peri Frantz
- Janet and Lloyd Frink
- In memory of Amie Frischer
- David Fry and Meidee Goh
- Paul Funk
- In memory of Mikhail Galperin
- Kevin Gamble
- Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- Gay Chemists Support Fund
- GE Foundation Matching Gifts
- Ken Geib
- George & Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
- Alan George
- James George
- James S George
- Betty Harrell Gerlack
- John Giannandrea
- Reed Gleason
- Lisa & Evan Goldberg
- Richie Goldman
- Robert J Gordon
- J. Alex Graeffe
- Grainger Matching Gifts Program
- Brad Grantham and Kris Ingram
- Green Bicycle Fund
- Lawrence Greenfield
- Dan Grossman
- Mary Beth Guard
- Russ & Barbara Guard
- Linne Ha
- Alexandre Haag
- Paul Haahr
- Joanna Haas
- The Hamilton Foundation
- Abdelkarim Hammad
- Robert Hanek
- Josh Bernoff and Kimberley Harding
- In honor of Tom and Shoshana Harper
- The Harrity Family
- Aaron and Stacy Harsh
- Janet and Richard Hart
- Shabbir Hassan
- Wayne Hathaway
- Marshall Hawks
- Philipp Haydn
- Healers Who Share
- Vanessa Heckman and Brett Babin
- James Heilman
- Paul Henry
- Nathan Herring and Ms. Miller Sherling
- In honor of B. Hesper
- Jim Hobart
- Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
- Kenneth Holden
- Jay Hormel
- In loving memory of William B. Howland
- Lisha and Andy Hu
- Celia and Daniel Huber
- Robert and Beth Hurt
- IBM Employee Donations
- Carla and Philippe Ifrah
- Imperial Reach
- Indie Prize
- INSERTO
- Insiders Findland Oy Ab
- Intetics Co.
- Tetsuya Isozaki
- IT WORKS Inc.
- Douglas Jaffe
- JobDiva, Inc.
- Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation
- Mark Johnson
- Dan Jones
- Jay Jones
- Boyan Jovanovic
- Joy is one's fuel
- In memory of our smart, loving Grandma Judy
- K3 Software Corp/RPOWER POS
- Lucian Kafka and aura.travel
- Hans Kaper
- Mitch Kapor
- Ellen Karaku
- Kevin Kassing
- Jane Ilene Katims
- Pritam Kaur
- KDSM Fund
- KeepCalling
- James Kelley
- Austin and Ashley Kelmore
- Peter Kelsey
- The Keough Family Foundation
- Kern Charitable Fund
- Jack Kessler
- In memory of Charles Kettering
- In honor of SJ Klein, Jr. and Jimmy Wales
- Ernest L. Bruns Jr. and Sue Ann Kendall
- Michael W. Kidd
- Bennett Killmer & Julie Hirschfeld
- Ben Kim and Jullie Myung
- Donald King Jr
- In honor of Harold King
- Sam King
- Nanette Kinkade
- The Kipping Family
- Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
- Robyn Kirkwood
- Knowledge. Collaboration. Progress. |M|
- Don and Jill Knuth
- Keen Yung Kong
- Hal Krisbergh
- Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kropla
- Semyon Kruglyak
- KSS Architects
- Pradhan Kumar
- Gene Kusmiak
- En souvenir de Réal Labelle
- Jeffrey Lamkin
- Laurence Lapeyre
- Diane and John Laxmi
- 乐进会
- Linda Lee
- Yanfang Lei
- Elizabeth and Jon Leonard
- In memory of Mary Lew
- Leoks Family Fund
- The Leon Levy Foundation
- Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation
- Hedi Lieberman
- Lincoln Loop
- Gregg and Libby Lindahl
- Christopher J. Lingle
- lmnarchitecture.com users group
- John Longres & Jeff Graham
- Pete Large & Mandy Loomis
- Liza Loop
- The Lowry Family
- Marilyn Lucht
- Inspired by Robert Lukasiak
- Yonghao Luo
- Lyman and Kathryn Lyons
- MABTOOLS
- Matthew Mackall
- William and Christina Maddox
- In memory of Shaynon MaGee Jordan
- Nathan Mak
- Make-A-Website
- Anup Mantri
- Sara and Josh Margulis
- Lars Markhus
- John Marx AIA
- Darrin Massena
- Frank Markus
- May Family Foundation
- Elizabeth McGlynn
- Mike McGuffin
- In memory of Nadia L. Mead, Mandarin, Florida
- Data Science team at Meltwater Group
- Steve and Carole Memishian
- Andrew Merritt
- Sam Meshberg
- Helen and Stephen Mildenhall
- Kelly T. Miller
- J. Michael Miller, President Sebastian Brown Productions, Inc.
- Steven Miller & Pat Meyer
- Ryan Mills
- In honor of Trudy Milne
- Dr. L. David Mirkin
- Jamie Molaro and Ian Reasor
- Moneta Asset Management
- Miles Morland
- In memory of Carmen and Andrew Moore
- Kenneth Brandon Moore
- David Moore Boulware
- Philip Morson
- For Sam Mott
- Brynn Mow
- The Mudd Foundation
- Amy D. Mullen
- David Mumford
- N.C.W Foundation
- Nathaniel P. and Lacy Edmundson Turner Fund of The Dallas Foundation
- Nead Werx, Inc.
- In memory of Robert Neale
- Seth Neiman
- Gregory Nelson
- Donors of Network for Good
- In loving memory of Elissa Newlander
- Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
- In memory of Marjorie Yospin Newman
- Mariya Nomanbhoy
- Nordic Naturals, Inc.
- No Starch Press
- Benjamin Novak
- Offshore Servers by Pirates Hosting
- In honor of Tom Oliver
- Lennox Olney
- John and Rita Ousterhout
- Kurt Overley
- In honor of the Oviatt Library at Cal State University, Northridge
- Jhilmil Pandit & Punchhi Pandit
- Gideon G. Panter, M.D.
- Paradox Interactive
- Dylan Parker
- Gregory Partridge
- Philipp Patch
- In memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel
- Terrance D. Paul
- PCH Integrated Regulatory Services, Inc.
- Lena Pepper
- Daniel Perlman
- In honor of Nick Peter
- Bryce and Shonni Peterson
- Duane Phillips
- In memory of Andrew Phillips
- Phlebotomy Careers
- In memory of Donald R. Pieper
- Gustavo Pierini
- Rahn Pitzer
- Ekaterina Podossinnikova
- Dan and Gail Powell
- Stephen Powelson
- Vipul Ved Prakash
- Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
- Rob and Anna Prestezog
- Thomas G. Pretlow II
- Steve G. Privette
- PromoPro
- Marcel Przymusinski
- Max J. Pucher
- Lawrence P. and Teresa L. Pulliam
- Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
- Quality Logo Products
- B S Ramamurtie
- Venkat Ramdass
- Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
- Rear Admiral Gametools
- ReferenceMe
- Richard and Lisa Reichman
- Ax T. Remus
- Nancy B. Coleman & Paul M. Resch
- Stevan Rich
- Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
- Stephen Revilak and Julie Rioux
- Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
- Kevin Riggle
- Green Rives
- Roca Markets
- Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller
- Ileana Roman & Sam Roman
- Donald Rosenfeld
- Jesse I Rosenthal
- Wayne Rosing
- Dennis Rossman
- Matt Rudary
- Lorne Runge
- M. Duane Rutledge
- Runtime Design Automation
- Rusty and Stormy
- S5 Consulting
- Richard Saada
- Stephen Sacks
- Kavita Saini
- Paul Salaets
- Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
- Dr Steven G. Sanders
- Scott Satterwhite
- John and Susan Savva
- In memory of Dr. Matis Scheinberg
- E. Schmale
- Richard Schmidt
- Aaron Schrader
- Josh Schripsema and Kresta Austin
- Mick Seaman
- In memory of Judy Sena
- Michael Shimoide
- Edward and Elaine Shoben
- Brett Simmers
- Russel Simmons
- Simply Science, LLC
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Wilmar Siqueira
- www.ski-epic.com
- skiprobert
- Petr Skrla
- Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia
- Verbeck Smith
- Will Smith
- Anne Soder
- Abraham & Marian Sofaer
- The Solera Family
- Jordan Sorensen
- Juha Sorva
- P. Clark and Margaret Souers
- Joel Spiegel
- Squiddershins
- David Squire
- denise stockman
- David Sunderland
- G. & M. Swaminathan
- Terry Tai
- Steve Tak-Shu Tai & Kin-Ching Wu
- Yew-Koon Tan
- Peter Taubkin
- Texas Gulf Bank
- Thanksgiving Fund
- Thatai Family
- The Spirit of the Sixties
- Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas
- Thomas Thomas
- Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family
- Jonathan Tobert
- Stephen Todd
- Kit Transue
- E. Trewitt
- Timothy Tully
- Bobby and Natalie Tulsiani
- In memory of Alan Turing
- Christopher R. Turner
- Rui Ueyama
- Peter Ungar
- Jason Ursaner
- James Uttley
- Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
- David L. Van Brunt
- Vanessa and Bob
- In Memory of Caryl Van Houten
- Jason VanWees
- Hal Varian
- Genevieve Vaughan
- David Vaughn
- Vergelijkdirect.com
- VMware Foundation
- Vivaxis
- Ernst Volgenau
- Steven Wade
- Ted Waitt
- Chad and Kim Wagner
- In memory of Jack Wahl
- Robert Wares
- Jim and Judy Warner
- Rich Warner
- 丁磊
- Steven Weinstein
- Thomas Wentzler
- Kaz Westen
- The Wexler Family, Maryland
- Janet White and Michael Clark
- Zack White
- Endymion Wilkinson
- Ms. Caryl and Janice McNeilly and Dr. Robert E. Williamson
- William Wilby
- Wil Wilstro
- Josh Wiseman
- In memory of Frank and Helen Wolf
- The Wolff Family
- Daniel Wong - Stand back, I'm going to try SCIENCE!
- Worldcare Travel Insurance
- Oliver Wright
- Xie Wu
- Dr. W. Scott Wycoff
- Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
- Stanley Yamane
- Xuejun Yang
- Jeff Yass
- Brian Ho Tze Yew
- Alice Young
- Zephyr Charitable Foundation
- Greg Zeschuk
- Yanda Zhang and Xin Xu
- Anonymous Donors (631)
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