| 1. | Harvard U. | David and Stacey Goel | David Goel, a 1993 Harvard graduate, co-founded and is managing general partner of Matrix Capital Management Company, in Massachusetts. | $100 million | support for redesign of Harvard’s arts campus, construction of a new center for the American Repertory Theater, and arts programs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences |
| 2. | New York U. Langone Health | anonymous | n/a | $75 million | establishment of a new Center for Blood Cancers at Langone Health’s Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center, and support for efforts to improve patient care and conduct research on multiple myeloma |
| 3. | George Mason U. | Allison and Dorothy Rouse | Allison Rouse, who died in 2005 at age 86, was an associate justice of the California Court of Appeal in San Francisco from 1971 to 1988. Dorothy Rouse, who died in 2018 at age 93, was a lawyer with the San Mateo County District Attorney’s office. | $52 million (bequest) | endowment for 13 new professorships at the Antonin Scalia Law School |
| 4. | Indiana U., School of Public and Environmental Affairs | Paul O’Neill | former U.S. secretary of the treasury, former chief executive of Alcoa, and a 1966 graduate of Indiana | $30 million | establishment of the Paul H. O’Neill Center on Leadership in Public Service; a dean’s initiatives fund; three faculty chairs; five professorships; a fellowship program for master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral students; and a scholarship program at the school, which will be renamed the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs |
| 4. | U. of North Texas | G. Brint and Amanda Ryan | G. Brint Ryan is founder, chairman, and chief executive of Ryan, a global tax-services company in Dallas, and chairman of the university’s Board of Regents. | $30 million (pledge) | renaming of the business college as the G. Brint Ryan College of Business, creation of six endowed professorships, and support for programs in taxation and tax research, entrepreneurship, finance, logistics, information technology, cybersecurity, and behavioral accounting |
| 6. | U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Claude Adams III | dentist who practiced in Durham, N.C., for nearly 25 years and who died in 2018 | $27.7 million (bequest) | endowment for the university’s dentistry school, which will be renamed the Claude A. Adams Jr. and Grace Phillips Adams School of Dentistry in honor of the donor’s parents, with support for merit scholarships, professorships, and staff awards |
| 7. | Loyola U. Chicago | Robert L. and Elizabeth Parkinson | Robert L. Parkinson Jr., who retired as chairman and chief executive of Baxter International, formerly led Abbott Laboratories. He was dean of the university’s School of Business Administration and Graduate School of Business (now the Quinlan School of Business) from 2002 to 2004, and is chairman of the university’s Board of Trustees. The couple both graduated from Loyola. | $25 million | support for creation of the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health, and addition of programs including a bachelor’s degree in public-health sciences and master’s degrees in health informatics and exercise science |
| 7. | Stanford U. Libraries | Harold C. and Marilyn A. Hohbach Foundation (Marilyn Hohbach) | Marilyn Hohbach is the widow of Harold Hohbach, a patent lawyer and real-estate developer in Palo Alto, who died in 2017 at age 96. | $25 million | establishment of a research center, named Hohbach Hall, focused on the university’s extensive Silicon Valley Archives, which cover the history and development of Silicon Valley; endowment for the program, and creation of new study spaces, seminars, events, and exhibitions |
| 9. | Georgetown U. | Jon M. and Patricia Baker | Jon M. Baker Sr. is chairman and chief executive of International Planning Group, a life-insurance and wealth-structuring company in Massachusetts. | $20 million | establishment of the Baker Trust for Transformational Learning, which will help integrate internships, research programs, fieldwork, and other activities for personal and professional development into the curriculum |
| 9. | John Carroll U. | anonymous | a John Carroll graduate who made the gift in honor of the former university presidents the Rev. Joseph Schell and the Rev. Henry Birkenhauer, as well as Walter Nosal, founder of the John Carroll Counseling Center, and Arthur Noetzel, former business dean | $20 million (pledge) | unrestricted use |
| 9. | U. of Florida Levin College of Law | Richard P. Cole | managing partner at the Miami law firm Cole, Scott & Kissane, who earned a J.D. degree at the university in 1974; the gift honors his late father, Robert B. Cole, a 1935 law-school alumnus who was founding chairman of Baptist Health of South Florida | $20 million (pledge) | endowment of a program in health law, with support for teaching, scholarship, and advocacy |
| 9. | U. of Florida and UF Health | Lauren & Lee Fixel Family Foundation (Lee and Lauren Fixel) | Lee Fixel is a partner with the investment firm Tiger Global Management, where he leads the private-equity business; the gift honors his father, Norman Fixel, a 1975 graduate of the university. Lauren Fixel is a 2007 graduate of the university. | $20 million | establishment of the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at UF Health to advance research on, and care of patients with, Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases |
| 9. | U. of Notre Dame | John and Mollie Baumer | John Baumer, who graduated from the university in 1990, is a senior partner at Leonard Green and Partners, a private-equity firm in Los Angeles. | $20 million | naming gift for Baumer Hall, a new men’s residence hall that is scheduled to open in August |
| 14. | U. of Southern California | Leonard D. and Pamela Schaeffer | Leonard Schaeffer was founding chairman and chief executive of WellPoint Health Networks, a health-insurance company. | $17 million | additional support for the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy & Economics, which the couple helped create 10 years ago, including money for interdisciplinary research on issues like rising health-care costs, a professorship, and government-service fellowships |
| 15. | U. of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine | Garry Shandling | actor and comedian, best known for starring in The Larry Sanders Show, who died from a pulmonary embolism in 2016 at age 66 | $15.2 million (bequest) | establishment and endowment of research funds in endocrine surgery, infectious diseases, and pancreatic diseases, and creation of a general medical-research fund to operate at the discretion of the medical school’s dean |