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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 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
- 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
- Anonymous Donors (6)
Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)
- Apple Matching Gift Program
- Carl de Marcken
- 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
- 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
- Kathy Bates
- 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
- Linda Carver & Wayne Hathaway
- James Chambers
- Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
- Chevron Matching Employee Funds
- Crossref
- craigslist Charitable Fund Matching Gifts
- Ranae DeSantis
- The Donnelley Foundation
- Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
- Jack Dorsey
- The Durst Organization LP
- Eagleridge Foundation of Community Foundation, Sonoma County
- Peter Francati
- GE Foundation
- Becky & Brian Geisel
- The Grainger Foundation
- Holly Gray
- The Gray Family (Calgary)
- John Horne
- Dave Humm
- William F Hummel
- William H Hurt
- PJ & Kendra Hyett
- William Forrest
- John Templeton Foundation
- Jay Jones
- Scott Eric Jordan
- Steve Kass
- Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
- Igor Kopylov
- Saori & Takashi Kousaka
- The Lehoczky Escobar Family
- Darrin Massena
- Lloyd McAulay
- Bill & Marilyn McCune
- Fred Miller
- Sheila Mossman
- Anton Murashov
- Newgen KnowledgeWorks, Chennai
- 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
- Red Oak Foundation
- RetailMeNot
- Rick & Susan Goings Foundation
- Philip Rogers
- Bow Ruggeri
- Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation
- Barbara Ryan
- Salesforce.org
- In memory of Jerry Salo
- Isai Scheinberg
- Scooter Software
- Selz Foundation
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation
- Mark Heising & Liz Simons
- Space Exploration Technologies Corp
- Susan Isabel Foundation
- The Montgomery Family Foundation
- Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas
- Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
- Jaime & Elliot Turner
- William Van der Kloot
- Jason VanWees
- Tony Wheeler
- Samantha Xu
- Donors of YourCause
- Anonymous Donors (92)
Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)
- Dianne Adelberg
- Agilent Employee Giving Campaign
- Albert Hans, LLC
- American Express Foundation Employee Matching
- Ameriprise Financial
- Amgen Foundation
- Mashrur Anam - Life Harmonized
- Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
- Dalibor Antonic
- AON Foundation
- Greg Apodaca
- Maite Arango
- Etienne Ardant
- Dimitris Armaos
- Ram Darshan Arora
- Ben Arthur
- AT&T Foundation
- Jesse Ausubel
- Autodesk Foundation Employee Engagement Fund
- Sam & Sylvia Autrey
- Axiom Works, Inc
- François Badelon
- Prabhu & Rina Balasubramanian
- Juliana & James Bancroft
- R & A Bandela
- Cori Bargmann
- Leora Barish and Henry Bean
- Michael Barnstijn
- Kevin Barone
- Douglas Bates and Mini Pathria
- Battelle Matching Gifts
- Peter Baumann
- BD Group
- Belay Foundation
- Stefan Bengtsson
- John and Nancy Benson
- Jayashree Bhaskar
- Peter Bing
- Graeme Birchall
- Bitcoin VPS by LibertyVPS
- BlackRock Matching Gifts Program
- Carson Block
- Bloomberg LP
- On behalf of BMO Financial Group
- BMS Matching Gift Program
- BP Foundation, Inc.
- Brent Blumenstein and Anne Ryan
- Barry William Boehm
- David C. Bohnett
- Artem Bolgar
- Honoring Beverly & George Bond
- Olivier Bonnet and family
- Bill and Joann Boyd
- Bright Horizon Fund
- Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Employee Giving Program
- Daniel Brönnimann
- Brian and Melissa Brothers
- Phil and Valerie Brown
- James Buckingham
- Sailesh Buddhavarapu
- Thomas Buhr
- The Burnett Family
- Burt and Diana Cutler Family Foundation
- Buy Now Signal
- Barry Buzan
- David Bydeley
- Kevin C.
- CA Technologies Matching Gift Program
- Brian Cairns
- Cameron Foundation
- Craig Campbell
- Rob Capps
- Raul Carmenate
- In Memory of Andrea F. Carret
- Jason Carroll
- Sally Cartwright
- William Cassidy
- Century Arts Foundation
- Ian Chan
- Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
- Viola Chen
- Jim Chervenak
- Howell Chickering
- Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
- James Cho & Sophia Kim
- Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu
- In loving memory of N.Gandhi Chowdary, Penumuli
- Michael Choy & Shannon Moffett
- Nicholas Chu & Vivian Fuh
- Michelle Chuang
- Frank O. Clark, Ph.D.
- Coca-Cola Company
- Anne Marie Cole
- Kathleen Collins
- In Memory of Giuseppe Colnaghi
- Luke Comer
- Ryan Conlon
- Guy Connolly
- Conoco Phillips Gift Matching
- Ryan Coonan
- John and Lenore Cooney
- Thomas Cooper
- CouponFollow
- 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
- Phil and Jenni Deamer
- DECA Global LLC
- Carole Deitrich
- Dell Employees Giving Program
- Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
- Jude Deveraux
- Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
- Hester Diamond
- Otto van Diggelen
- Joshua S. Dillon
- Alex Dingle
- A Sibbald Doan
- Anne Doer
- Dolby Match Program
- In memory of Paul L Donoho
- Mathew Donovan
- 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
- Gretchen Eisenach
- James Elam
- Electronic Arts Outreach
- Ellen Coopers Paris
- 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
- Paul & Elizabeth Fraley
- Luigi Francia
- Bill & Peri Frantz
- David Fry and Meidee Goh
- 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
- Greg and Michele Goodwin
- Jack Goodman
- Richard Gorton
- J. Alex Graeffe
- Jon Graff
- Grainger Matching Gifts Program
- Brad Grantham and Kris Ingram
- Green Bicycle Fund
- Lawrence Greenfield
- Dr. Marie R. Griffin
- Caroline and Dan Grossman
- Mary Beth Guard
- Joshua and Meggan Guberman
- Frans Guepin
- In memory of Chandrashekhar Gupta, Udaipur, from Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
- Alan Guth
- Linne Ha
- Alexandre Haag
- Joanna Haas
- Pauliana and Eric Hall
- Mark D Halperin
- The Hamilton Foundation
- Sean Hammons
- Robert Hanek
- The Harrity Family
- Janet and Richard Hart
- Marshall Hawks
- Philipp Haydn
- Healers Who Share
- healthinsurance.org
- Joachim Heck
- Vanessa Heckman and Brett Babin
- Hewlett Packard Company Foundation
- James Heilman
- Dick Heiser
- Stephen Henderson and James LaForce
- Paul Henry
- Jon Hill
- Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
- David Hoff
- Kenneth Holden
- Christopher and LuAnne Hormel
- Jay Hormel
- HP Inc
- HSBC
- Celia and Daniel Huber
- Hulston Family Foundation
- Jeffrey Hutchins
- PJ & Kendra Hyett
- Carla and Philippe Ifrah
- Illinois Tool Works Foundation
- Intetics Co.
- Intuit Foundation
- Roy Jablonka
- Douglas Jaffe
- Micah Jaffe
- Dirk Jagdmann
- Kent Janér
- Donald Jaycox
- Amy and Josh Jernigan
- Mark Johnson
- Boyan Jovanovic
- JP Morgan Chase Foundation
- The Julia and Nate Sharpe Charitable Fund
- Juniper Networks' Company Matching Gifts Program
- In honor of APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India
- Hans Kaper
- Mitch Kapor
- Jane Ilene Katims
- Danny Kaufman
- Pritam Kaur
- Aruna & Sudhakar Kaveeshwar
- KeepCalling
- Austin & Ashley Kelmore
- Kelly and Jeff
- Susan S Kelly
- Peter Kelsey M.D.
- The Keough Family Foundation
- Jack Kessler
- In memory of Charles Kettering
- Michael W. Kidd
- Bennett Killmer & Julie Hirschfeld
- Cynthia and Anthony Kim
- Donald King Jr
- Sam King
- Louise Kinkel & William August Boehmke
- The Kipping Family
- Robin Kirkwood
- Igor Kliakhandler and Ekaterina Podossinnikova
- Jeffrey Knauth
- Keen Yung Kong
- Elliott Krause
- Hal Krisbergh
- Gene Kusmiak
- Joshua Kwan and Angeline Protacio
- En souvenir de Réal Labelle
- Jeffrey Lamkin
- Laurence Lapeyre
- Diane & John Laxmi Family
- Richard Li
- Tucker Lieberman
- Richard Lin
- Greg Linden
- 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
- In memory of Pessie Madan
- Anup Mantri
- Gary Marcus
- Sara and Josh Margulis
- Lars Markhus
- Greg Marra and Elizabeth Dixon
- Matshym Foundation
- Jason May
- Rosa and Brian McCormick
- Josh McFarland
- Elizabeth McGlynn
- McKesson Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- McKinsey & Company Matching Gift Program
- Evie and John McNiff
- June Medina
- Medtronic Foundation Volunteer Grant Program
- Inspired by Ann Melim
- Data Science team at Meltwater Group
- Steve and Carol Memishian
- Merck Foundation
- Sally Merfeld
- Bardia Mesbah
- Kathleen Messina
- Marc Mezzacca
- Helen and Stephen Mildenhall
- Steven Miller & Patricia Meyer
- Ryan Mills
- In honor of Trudy Milne
- Craig Minassian
- Dr. L. David Mirkin
- Mildred & Radhe Mohan
- Moneta Asset Management
- J. Stuart Moore
- Morgan Stanley c/o Cybergrants, Inc.
- Thomas Morgan
- Miles Morland
- Tim Mott for Sam Mott
- Brynn Mow
- The Mudd Foundation
- Amy D. Mullen
- 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.
- Gregory Nelson
- Netent Casino
- Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
- Noble Energy, Inc
- Nord Family Foundation
- Nordstrom Charitable Giving
- Elizabeth Hendricks North
- Becky Norquist
- North American Herb and Spice
- Benjamin Novak
- Nvidia Employee Giving Program
- Diya Obeid
- Jim OBrian
- Og and Ogina
- Purnendu Ojha
- Jocelyn Olcott
- Lennox Olney
- Omidyar Network Fund, Inc
- Norm O'Neill
- Open Geo Group
- Laura O'Shea
- 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
- James Parks
- Philipp Patch
- In memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel
- Terrance D. Paul
- Ahmet Peynircioğlu
- Drew Perkins
- In honor of Nick Peter
- Bjoern Peters
- Bryce and Shonni Peterson
- The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- PG&E Corportation Foundation
- In memory of Andrew G. Phillips
- Duane Phillips
- In memory of Donald R. Pieper
- Gustavo Pierini
- James Pitcock
- Rahn Pitzer
- Joel and Tamara Podolny
- William Pollock
- Alexander Polsky
- Dan and Gail Powell
- Stephen Powelson
- Rob and Anna Prestezog
- Thomas G. Pretlow II
- William Prinzmetal
- Joseph Pristritto
- Progressive Insurance Foundation
- Property Matrix
- Prudential Financial Inc
- Lawrence P. and Teresa L. Pulliam
- Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
- Quality Logo Products
- Robert Quillin
- Christine Raimondi
- Venkat Ramdass
- Marsha D Rappley, MD
- Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
- Raymond Family Foundation
- Rear Admiral Gametools
- Chris Redlich Jr
- Regeneron Matching Gift Program
- Richard and Lisa Reichman
- Ax T. Remus
- Nancy B. Coleman & Paul M. Resch
- Paul & Lori Reszutek
- Richard and Beth Sackler Foundation
- Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
- Revouchers
- Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
- James and Cyndi Richardson
- Tim and Mary Riordan
- Green Rives
- Tom Rocklin, in memory of Kim Ephgrave
- Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller
- Ileana Roman & Sam Roman
- Ellen Rory
- Donald Rosenfeld
- Jesse I Rosenthal
- Robert Rosenthal
- Wayne Rosing
- Dennis Rossman
- Richard Royce
- Flavio Rump
- Lorne Runge
- Runtime
- 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
- Sarva Mangal Family Trust
- David Sassen
- Scott Satterwhite
- Steve Schlossstein
- E. Schmale
- Richard Schmidt
- Roy Schneiderman
- Robert Schroeder
- Ken Schwaber
- Tony Schwartz and Deborah Pines
- The Schweitzer Family
- Mick & Alison Seaman
- Raquel Sefton and J. Daniel Sharp
- Piet Selhorst and S-con bvba
- In memory of Judy Sena
- Bertrand Serlet
- Jerome Seydoux
- Jiseon Shin
- Michael Shimoide
- Theodore C. Shiveley
- Edward and Elaine Shoben
- Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Benjamin Wiley Sittler and Rebecca Middleton
- Ski-Epic
- skiprobert
- Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia
- Walt Smith
- Sara Smollett
- Anne Soder
- The Solera Family
- Jordan Sorensen
- Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Matching Gifts Program
- Joel Spiegel
- Sprague Foundation
- Squiddershins.com
- D. Squire
- James Stanard
- Thomas Stanis
- In memory of Joyce Stein
- Stormy and Rusty
- G. & M. Swaminathan
- The Swift River Fund
- Robert C Switzer III, Ph.D.
- Tableau Foundation Employee Engagement Fund
- Steve Tai and Kin-Ching Wu
- Yew-Koon Tan
- Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
- Peter Taubkin
- TD Ameritrade Clearing
- Tyrus and Samantha Tenneson
- 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
- Travel Promo Codes
- TripAdvisor Gift Matching Program
- Ben Tristem
- Ashok Trivedi
- Timothy Tully
- Bobby and Natalie Tulsiani
- Puduvankunnil Udayakumar
- Rui Ueyama
- Ulf Grenander
- Peter Ungar
- United HealthCare
- Jason Ursaner
- In Memory of Mary and Theodore Urzy
- James Uttley
- Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
- Erik Vaaler
- Vafa Family
- David L. Van Brunt
- In Memory of Caryl Van Houten
- David Vaughn
- Barbara Vdovc
- Verizon Foundation
- Maximilian Vermilye
- Visa Matching Gifts Program
- VMware Foundation
- Ernst Volgenau
- Jennifer and Luke Wagner
- In memory of Jack Wahl
- 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
- Bill & Cynthia Wilby
- Ms. Caryl and Janice McNeilly and Dr. Robert E. Williamson
- James & Denise Wilson
- Wil Wilstro
- The Witter Family
- In memory of Frank and Helen Wolf
- The Wolff Family
- Daniel Wong - Love trumps hate
- 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
- Mimi Yu
- Brandon Zehm
- Zephyr Charitable Foundation
- Yuan Zheng & Jeffrey van Gogh
- Jianhong Zhou & Ben Escoto
- Brian Zingale
- Matt Zukowski
- Anonymous Donors (675)
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