Archive:Benefactors/2015-2016

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This page reflects gifts received between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016. See Benefactors 2014-2015.

Major Benefactors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
Antoine Bello
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 (7)

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

Apple Matching Gift Program
The Blackburn Family Fund
Fund for Second Nature
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
Spencer Glendon and Lisa Tung
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program
Keel Foundation
Jack Little
MathWorks
Microsoft Matching Gift Program
The Shor Family Foundation
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Anonymous Donors (6)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

The Aber D. Unger Foundation
Brad Abernethy
Argosy Foundation
David and Margaret Bettner
The Bitcoin Community
Tor Braham
Brickell Analytics LLC
Annette Campbell-White
James Chambers
Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
Crossref
Carl de Marcken
The Donnelley Foundation
Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
The Durst Organization LP
Eagleridge Foundation of Community Foundation, Sonoma County
Peter Francati
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
Igor Kopylov
Saori & Takashi Kousaka
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Level 39
Markle Foundation
Darrin Massena
Lloyd McAulay
Bill & Marilyn McCune
Metz Family Foundation
Frederick A. Miller III
Sheila Mossman
Anton Murashov
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
Philip Rogers
Bow & Erina Ruggeri
Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation.
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
Susan Isabel Foundation
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
Jaime & Elliot Turner
William Van der Kloot
Keridy and Geoffrey Williams
Samantha Xu
Donors of YourCause
Anonymous Donors (63)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

ACON Laboratories, Inc.
AIG Matching Grants Program
Alex Aizman
Amina Omar Assem Akil
David R. Albrecht
AmazonSmile Foundation
America's Charities
American Express Company Employee Giving Program
Amgen Foundation
Mashrur Anam - Life Harmonized
In memory of Sam & Lillian Anderman
Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
Greg Apodaca
Maite Arango
Etienne Ardant
Dimitris Armaos
Jesse Ausubel
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
Peter Baumann
Stefan Bengtsson
Peter Bing
Graeme Birchall
Bitcoin VPS by LibertyVPS
Brent Blumenstein
Boeing Co. Matching Gifts
Barry William Boehm
David C. Bohnett
Artem Bolgar
Honoring Beverly & George Bond
James S. Bostwick
Bill and Joann Boyd
Bright Horizon Fund
Daniel Brönnimann
Phil Brown
James Buckingham
In honor of Saeed Buraik
Barry Buzan
David Bydeley
Brian Cairns
Craig Campbell
Rob Capps
Timothy Carey
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
Anne Marie Cole
In Memory of Giuseppe Colnaghi
Luke Comer
Ryan Conlon
Guy Connolly
Ryan Coonan
Christopher Cowart
In memory of Deborah Cowan
Stone Coxhead
Meg Coyle
Critical Mass
In memory of Oliver Cromwell
Daboosh Family, Israel
Database Consulting Group
Dauber Foundation
Laszlo Deak
Carole Deitrich
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
Joshua S. Dillon
Alex Dingle
Sibbald Doan
Anne Doerr
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
Kenneth Eddings
Ron Bailey & Bill Edwards
Evgenia Emets
Ryan Ericson
Alan Eustace
Timo Ewalds
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
David Ford
Robert Ford
William Ford
Gregory Fox
Elizabeth and Paul Fraley
Bill & Peri Frantz
David Fry and Meidee Goh
Paul Funk
In memory of Mikhail Galperin
Kevin Gamble
Marjorie Gasser
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
GE Foundation Matching Gifts
Ken Geib
George & Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
James George
James S George
Betty Harrell Gerlack
John Giannandrea
Tyson & Elizabeth Gill
Sam & Emily Glick
Jeff & Kelly Glisch
Lisa & Evan Goldberg
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
James Heilman
Paul Henry
Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
David Hoff
Kenneth Holden
Jay Hormel
Celia and Daniel Huber
Hulston Family Foundation
PJ & Kendra Hyett
IBM Employee Donations
Carla and Philippe Ifrah
Intetics Co.
Douglas Jaffe
Micah Jaffe
Dirk Jagdmann
Kent Janér
Donald Jaycox
Amy and Josh Jernigan
Mark Johnson
Boyan Jovanovic
In honor of APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India
Kae Kanya 清鸿 / Januaca 张贻新 and Family
Hans Kaper
Mitch Kapor
Jane Ilene Katims
Pritam Kaur
Aruna & Sudhakar 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
Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
Robin Kirkwood
Igor Kliakhandler
Jeffrey Knauth
Keen Yung Kong
Hal Krisbergh
Gene Kusmiak
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
Laurence Lapeyre
Diane and John Laxmi
乐进会
Leo Model Foundation
The Leon Levy Foundation
Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation
Hedi Lieberman
Gregg and Libby Lindahl
Michelle Linden & Cameron Cavalier
Christopher J. Lingle
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
Matthew Mackall
Anup Mantri
Sara and Josh Margulis
Lars Markhus
Jason May
Elizabeth McGlynn
June Medina
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
Miles Morland
Brynn Mow
The Mudd Foundation
Amy D. Mullen
David Mumford
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
Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
Benjamin Novak
Diya Obeid
Purnendu Ojha
Lennox Olney
In honor of the Oviatt Library at Cal State University, Northridge
P&C Collins Fund
Pale Blue Dot
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
In memory of Andrew Phillips
In memory of Donald R. Pieper
Gustavo Pierini
Rahn Pitzer
William Pollock
Dan and Gail Powell
Stephen Powelson
Rob and Anna Prestezog
Thomas G. Pretlow II
William Prinzmetal
Joseph Pristritto
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
Richard and Lisa Reichman
Ax T. Remus
Nancy B. Coleman & Paul M. Resch
Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
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
M. Duane Rutledge
Runtime Design Automation
Barbara Ryan
Richard Saada
Yacine Saidji
Thomas Salander
Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
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
Sprague Foundation
David Squire
James Stanard
G. & M. Swaminathan
The Swift River Fund
Yew-Koon Tan
Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
Peter Taubkin
Tesla Government Inc.
Texas Gulf Bank
Thanksgiving Fund
Thatai Family
Lloyd L. Thoms Jr.
Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas
Tikvah Philanthropic Fund
Stephen Todd
Kit Transue
Timothy Tully
Bobby and Natalie Tulsiani
Rui Ueyama
Peter Ungar
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
VMware Foundation
Robert Wares
Jim and Judy Warner
Rich Warner
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!
Oliver Wright
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
Stanley Yamane
Lisha Yang
Xuejun Yang
Alice Young
Jonathan Young
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Jianhong Zhou & Ben Escoto
Anonymous Donors (463)

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