Thursday, January 3, 2013

Buffett's donation of $ 3.09 billion last year, accounting for 60% of the United States the amount of donations

American non-profit organization The Chronicle of Philanthropy Tuesday released the 2012 America's wealthiest charity list shows that God shares Warren Buffett (Warren Buffett) 2012 years of charitable pledges reached $ 3.09 billion, a person accounted for 60% of the nation's charitable donations.

The list, released Tuesday, a total of Statistics 15 pen charitable donations or pledges totaling $ 5.1 billion, the highest value since 2008 ($ 8,000,000,000). But Buffett one exclusive three pens, a total of up to $ 3.09 billion, the organization said, if the removal of Buffett's donation, 2012, contributions will be less than $ 2.6 billion in 2011.

Zuckerberg on December 18 this year to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation donated nearly $ 500 million, to become this year's donation came second U.S. billionaire.

The following amount of donations for this year's list of billionaires and their actual contributions or commitments:

Buffett: $ 3.09 billion

Zuckerberg: $ 498 million

Microsoft [microblogging] co-founder Paul Allen (Paul Allen): 3 billion U.S. dollars

Publishing and real estate the big Hengmotimo Zhake Man (Mortimer Zuckerman): 2 billion U.S. dollars

The Coe Manufacturing former boss Fred Fields (Fred Fields): $ 150 million

Investor Carl Icahn (Carl Icahn, who): $ 150 million

Former insurance industry executives and filmmakers David Gund the Rudge (David Gundlach): $ 140 million

Nike chairman Phil Knight (Phil Knight) and his wife: $ 125 million

Venture capitalist Michael Moritz (Michael Moritz) and his wife: $ 116.4 million

Entertainment executive David Geffen (David Geffen): 1 billion U.S. dollars

Investor John Paulson (John Paulson) and his wife: 100 million U.S. dollars

Businessman David of Sarkozy (David the Koch): $ 60 million

James Simmons (James Simons), a technology industry entrepreneur and his wife: $ 60 million

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