Benefactors

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This page reflects gifts received as of July 1, 2015. See Benefactors 2015-2016.

Major Benefactors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
Antoine Bello
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Cards Against Humanity
Charina Endowment Fund
Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund
craigslist Charitable Fund
Erasmus Foundation
Google Matching Gifts
Mary Graham
Humble Bundle
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Princess of Asturias Foundation
The Rothschild Foundation
Richard Seidel
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Anonymous Donors (6)

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

Apple Matching Gift Program
Carl de Marcken
Fund for Second Nature
Spencer Glendon and Lisa Tung
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program
Keel Foundation
Jack Little
MathWorks
Network For Good
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
The Shor Family Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tradebot Ventures, Inc.
Tripling Elephants
Two Sigma Investments LLC Matching Gift Program
Anonymous Donors (9)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

The Aber D. Unger Foundation
Brad Abernethy
Adobe
Argosy Foundation
Bank of America Matching Gifts Program
Claude Blackburn and Family
The Boeing Company Gift Match
David and Margaret Bettner
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
The Bitcoin Community
Tor Braham
Brickell Analytics LLC
Annette Campbell-White
Timothy Carey
James Chambers
Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
Chevron Matching Employee Funds
Crossref
craigslist Charitable Fund Matching Gifts
The Donnelley Foundation
Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
The Durst Organization LP
Eagleridge Foundation of Community Foundation, Sonoma County
Peter Francati
GE Foundation
Becky & Brian Geisel
The Grainger Foundation
Holly Gray
Urs Hölzle
Home Improvement Leads
John Horne
Dave Humm
William F Hummel
PJ & Kendra Hyett
Jay Jones
Steve Kass
Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
Igor Kopylov
Saori & Takashi Kousaka
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Level 39
Markle Foundation
Darrin Massena
Lloyd McAulay
Bill & Marilyn McCune
Metz Family Foundation
Fred Miller
Sheila Mossman
Anton Murashov
Oracle Corporation Matching Gifts Program
Pale Blue Dot
Shyam Patel
P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust
PediaPress GmbH
Perforce Foundation
Drew Perkins
In memory of Pedro Petersen
Pinion Street Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
Ed Reed
RetailMeNot
Philip Rogers
Bow & Erina Ruggeri
Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation
Barbara Ryan
Salesforce.org
In memory of Jerry Salo
Isai Scheinberg
Scooter Software
Selz Foundation
The Shifting Foundation, in honor of Samuel M. Seaman
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mark Heising & Liz Simons
Russel Simmons
Space Exploration Technologies Corp
Susan Isabel Foundation
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
Jaime & Elliot Turner
William Van der Kloot
Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro
Keridy and Geoffrey Williams
Samantha Xu
Donors of YourCause
Anonymous Donors (90)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

Agilent Employee Giving Campaign
Alex Aizman
Amina Omar Assem Akil
David R. Albrecht
AmazonSmile Foundation
American Express Foundation Employee Matching
Ameriprise Financial
Amgen Foundation
Mashrur Anam - Life Harmonized
In memory of Sam & Lillian Anderman
Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
AON Foundation
Greg Apodaca
Maite Arango
Etienne Ardant
Dimitris Armaos
Ben Arthur
AT&T Foundation
Jesse Ausubel
Autodesk Foundation Employee Engagement Fund
Sam & Sylvia Autrey
François Badelon
Prabhu & Rina Balasubramanian
Juliana & James Bancroft
R & A Bandela
Cori Bargmann
Kevin Barone
Douglas Bates and Mini Pathria
Kathy Bates
Battelle Matching Gifts
Peter Baumann
BD Group
Stefan Bengtsson
Peter Bing
Graeme Birchall
Bitcoin VPS by LibertyVPS
BlackRock Matching Gifts Program
Bloomberg LP
BMS Matching Gift Program
BP Foundation, Inc.
Brent Blumenstein
Barry William Boehm
David C. Bohnett
Artem Bolgar
Honoring Beverly & George Bond
James S. Bostwick
Bill and Joann Boyd
Bright Horizon Fund
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Employee Giving Program
Daniel Brönnimann
Phil and Valerie Brown
James Buckingham
Burt and Diana Cutler Family Foundation
In honor of Saeed Buraik
Buy Now Signal
Barry Buzan
David Bydeley
CA Technologies Matching Gift Program
Brian Cairns
Craig Campbell
Rob Capps
Raul Carmenate
Jason Carroll
Sally Cartwright
William Cassidy
Caithness Foundation
Ian Chan
Nathan Chan
Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
Jim Chervenak
Howell Chickering
Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
James Cho & Sophia Kim
In loving memory of N.Gandhi Chowdary, Penumuli
Michael Choy & Shannon Moffett
Nicholas Chu & Vivian Fuh
Michelle Chuang
Coca-Cola Company
Anne Marie Cole
In Memory of Giuseppe Colnaghi
Luke Comer
Ryan Conlon
Guy Connolly
Conoco Phillips Gift Matching
Ryan Coonan
CouponLab.com
Christopher Cowart
In memory of Deborah Cowan
Ardelle Cowie
Stone Coxhead
Meg Coyle
Critical Mass
In memory of Oliver Cromwell
Daboosh Family, Israel
Database Consulting Group
Laszlo Deak
Carole Deitrich
Dell Employees Giving Program
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
Joshua S. Dillon
Alex Dingle
Sibbald Doan
Anne Doer
Dolby Match Program
William Dougherty
Frank H. Douglas
Dr. Jack Wildrich Foundation
Matías Duarte
Philippe Dunsky, Dunsky Energy Consulting
Edgar Durbin
Susanne Durst
The Durst Family
Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak
eBay Foundation
Kenneth Eddings
Ron Bailey & Bill Edwards
Electronic Arts Outreach
Evgenia Emets
Ericsson Employee Engagement Fund
Ryan Ericson
Alan Eustace
Timo Ewalds
Exelon Employee Giving Campaign
Expedia Inc.
ExxonMobil Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Abe Farag Family Foundation
Megan and Matthew Feinberg
Yoseph Feit
Arlen Feldman & Adriana Wood
Feral Interactive
Anne & Russ Fernald
Renée B. Fisher Foundation
John Fisher
Gerald & Nancy Fishman
In memory of Joseph A Fleck Jr
Margaret Flickinger
Norman & Jill Fogelsong
Ford Foundation Matching Gift Program
David Ford
Robert Ford
William Ford
Gregory Fox
Luigi Francia
Bill & Peri Frantz
David Fry and Meidee Goh
Paul Funk
In memory of Mikhail Galperin
Kevin Gamble
Marjorie Gasser
Gartner (The Matching Gift Center)
Ken Geib
Genentech Employee Giving Program
George & Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
James George
James S George
Betty Harrell Gerlack
John Giannandrea
Tyson & Elizabeth Gill
GlaxoSmithKline
Sam & Emily Glick
Jeff & Kelly Glisch
Globalgiving Foundation Inc
Lisa & Evan Goldberg
Jack Goodman
J. Alex Graeffe
Grainger Matching Gifts Program
Brad Grantham and Kris Ingram
Green Bicycle Fund
Lawrence Greenfield
Dan Grossman
Mary Beth Guard
Frans Guepin
In memory of Chandrashekhar Gupta, Udaipur, from Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
Linne Ha
Alexandre Haag
Joanna Haas
Pauliana and Eric Hall
The Hamilton Foundation
Robert Hanek
Janet and Richard Hart
Wayne Hathaway
Marshall Hawks
Philipp Haydn
Healers Who Share
healthinsurance.org
Joachim Heck
Vanessa Heckman and Brett Babin
Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
James Heilman
Paul Henry
Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
David Hoff
Kenneth Holden
Jay Hormel
HP Inc
HSBC
Celia and Daniel Huber
Hulston Family Foundation
PJ & Kendra Hyett
Carla and Philippe Ifrah
Illinois Tool Works Foundation
Intetics Co.
Intuit Foundation
Douglas Jaffe
Micah Jaffe
Dirk Jagdmann
Kent Janér
Donald Jaycox
Amy and Josh Jernigan
Mark Johnson
Boyan Jovanovic
JP Morgan Chase Foundation
Juniper Networks' Company Matching Gifts Program
In honor of APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India
Hans Kaper
Mitch Kapor
Jane Ilene Katims
Pritam Kaur
Aruna & Sudkakar Kaveeshwar
KeepCalling
Austin & Ashley Kelmore
Kelly and Jeff
The Keough Family Foundation
Jack Kessler
In memory of Charles Kettering
Michael W. Kidd
Bennett Killmer & Julie Hirschfeld
Donald King Jr
Sam King
The Kipping Family
Robin Kirkwood
Igor Kliakhandler
Jeffrey Knauth
Keen Yung Kong
Elliott Krause
Hal Krisbergh
Gene Kusmiak
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
Laurence Lapeyre
Lawrence Livermore Labs
Diane and John Laxmi
乐进会
Leo Model Foundation
The Leon Levy Foundation
Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation
Yonghong Lily Li
Hedi Lieberman
Gregg and Libby Lindahl
Michelle Linden & Cameron Cavalier
Christopher J. Lingle
LinkedIn Matching Gifts Program
John Longres & Jeff Graham
Joseph Love & Laurie Reynolds
The Lowry Family
Marilyn Lucht
James & Katherine Luedke
Jennifer Luft
Inspired by Robert Lukasiak
Lyman and Kathryn Lyons
MABTOOLS
MacArthur Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Matthew Mackall
Anup Mantri
Sara and Josh Margulis
Lars Markhus
Jason May
Elizabeth McGlynn
McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program
McKinsey & Company Matching Gift Program
June Medina
Medtronic Foundation Volunteer Grant Program
Data Science team at Meltwater Group
Steve and Carol Memishian
Merck Foundation
Sally Merfeld
Marc Mezzacca
Helen and Stephen Mildenhall
Steven Miller & Pat Meyer
Ryan Mills
Craig Minassian
Dr. L. David Mirkin
Mildred & Radhe Mohan
Moneta Asset Management
Morgan Stanley c/o Cybergrants, Inc.
Thomas Morgan
Miles Morland
Brynn Mow
The Mudd Foundation
Amy D. Mullen
David Mumford
Mr. Money Mustache
Jasmine Nabi
Greg Nasmyth
Naida S. Wharton Foundation
Nathaniel P. and Lacy Edmundson Turner Fund of The Dallas Foundation
Nead Werx, Inc.
Seth Neiman
Gregory Nelson
Netent Casino
Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
Noble Energy, Inc
Nord Family Foundation
Nordstrom Charitable Giving
Benjamin Novak
Nvidia Employee Giving Program
Diya Obeid
Purnendu Ojha
Lennox Olney
Omidyar Network Fund, Inc
In honor of the Oviatt Library at Cal State University, Northridge
P&C Collins Fund
Pale Blue Dot
PayPal Gives Employee Engagement Fund
Jhilmil Pandit & Punchhi Pandit
Paradox Interactive
Philipp Patch
In memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel
Terrance D. Paul
Ahmet Peynircioğlu
Drew Perkins
Bryce and Shonni Peterson
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
PG&E Corportation Foundation
In memory of Andrew Phillips
In memory of Donald R. Pieper
Gustavo Pierini
James Pitcock
Rahn Pitzer
William Pollock
Dan and Gail Powell
Stephen Powelson
Rob and Anna Prestezog
Thomas G. Pretlow II
William Prinzmetal
Joseph Pristritto
Progressive Insurance Foundation
Prudential Financial Inc
Lawrence P. and Teresa L. Pulliam
Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
Robert Quillin
Christine Raimondi
Venkat Ramdass
Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
Raymond Family Foundation
Rear Admiral Gametools
Regeneron Matching Gift Program
Richard and Lisa Reichman
Ax T. Remus
Nancy B. Coleman & Paul M. Resch
Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
Revouchers
Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
Green Rives
Tom Rocklin, in memory of Kim Ephgrave
Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller
Ileana Roman & Sam Roman
Ellen Rory
Donald Rosenfeld
Jesse I Rosenthal
Wayne Rosing
Dennis Rossman
Richard Royce
Lorne Runge
Runtime Design Automation
Russell Investments
M. Duane Rutledge
Richard Saada
Yacine Saidji
Thomas Salander
Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
SanDisk Corporation
Shell Oil Company Foundation
Dr Steven G. Sanders
David Sassen
Scott Satterwhite
Steve Schlossstein
E. Schmale
Richard Schmidt
Roy Schneiderman
Robert Schroeder
Mick Seaman
In memory of Judy Sena
Jiseon Shin
Michael Shimoide
Edward and Elaine Shoben
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
skiprobert
Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia
Walt Smith
Sara Smollett
Anne Soder
The Solera Family
Jordan Sorensen
Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Sprague Foundation
David Squire
James Stanard
G. & M. Swaminathan
The Swift River Fund
Tableau Foundation Employee Engagement Fund
Yew-Koon Tan
Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
Peter Taubkin
TD Ameritrade Clearing
Tesla Government Inc.
Texas Gulf Bank
Thanksgiving Fund
Thatai Family
Lloyd L. Thoms Jr.
Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas
Thomson Reuters My Community Program
Tikvah Philanthropic Fund
T-Mobile USA, Inc
Stephen Todd
Kit Transue
TripAdvisor Gift Matching Program
Timothy Tully
Bobby and Natalie Tulsiani
Rui Ueyama
Peter Ungar
United HealthCare
Jason Ursaner
In Memory of Mary and Theodore Urzy
James Uttley
Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
Erik Vaaler
David L. Van Brunt
In Memory of Caryl Van Houten
Jason VanWees
David Vaughn
Barbara Vdovc
Verizon Foundation
Visa Matching Gifts Program
VMware Foundation
Ernst Volgenau
Walt Disney Company Foundation
Robert Wares
Jim and Judy Warner
Rich Warner
Wells Fargo Community Support
Thomas Wentzler
Kaz Westen
The Wexler Family, Maryland
Janet White and Michael Clark
Robert Whitehair
William Wilby
Ms. Caryl and Janice McNeilly and Dr. Robert E. Williamson
James & Denise Wilson
Wil Wilstro
In memory of Frank and Helen Wolf
The Wolff Family
Daniel Wong - Stand back, I'm going to try SCIENCE!
Workday, Inc
Oliver Wright
Xcel Energy Foundation Matching Program
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
Hiroo Yamagata
Stanley Yamane
Lisha Yang
Xuejun Yang
Alan Frederick Young
Alice Young
Jonathan Young
YourCause, LLC
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Jianhong Zhou & Ben Escoto
Anonymous Donors (671)

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Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

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