| 1. | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Anonymous | alumnus | $140 million (pledge) | unrestricted use |
| 2. | California Polytechnic State U. at San Luis Obispo | William and Linda Frost | founder of Chemlogic, a chemical-manufacturing company, which he later sold for $1.3 billion, and an alumnus (Mr. Frost) | $110 million | funds for a new interdisciplinary research center, updated equipment, and the hiring of more instructors in the College of Science and Mathematics, with $3.6 million set aside annually for student scholarships and research stipends |
| 3. | U. of Chicago Medicine | Craig and Janet Duchossois, and the Duchossois Family Foundation | chairman of the Duchossois Group, a holding company with investments in racehorse tracks, defense contracts, and rail-car manufacturing, and a longtime trustee of both the University of Chicago and its Medical Center (Mr. Duchossois) | $100 million (pledge) | creation of the Duchossois Family Institute to develop “a new science of wellness,” through research and other interventions |
| 4. | U. of California at San Diego | Taner Halicioglu | former software and operations engineer at Facebook who now teaches in San Diego’s Jacobs School of Engineering in the department of computer science and engineering, and a 1996 alumnus of San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in computer science | $75 million | establishment of the Halicioglu Institute for Data Science, with support for faculty, postdoctoral, and graduate-student fellowships as well as undergraduate scholarships |
| 5. | Bates College | Michael and Alison Grott Bonney | retired chief executive of Cubist Pharmaceuticals and chairman of the Bates Board of Trustees (Mr. Bonney); the couple are 1980 Bates alumni, and their three children, and Mr. Bonney’s father, grandfather, and a sister are also alumni | $50 million | new and modernized facilities for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs |
| 6. | Chapman U. | Dale E. and Sarah Ann Fowler | founder of Fowler Properties, a real-estate-development company in Orange County, Calif., who graduated from Chapman in 1958 with a degree in economics (Mr. Fowler) | $45 million (pledge) | support for establishment of an engineering school |
| 7. | U. of Washington | Paul G. Allen | co-founder of Microsoft | $40 million | endowment for the new Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, created by elevating that department to school level |
| 8. | California Institute of Technology | Andrew and Peggy Cherng | co-chief executives of the Panda Restaurant Group, which operates the Panda Express chain and other dining brands, and which was co-founded by Mr. Cherng | $30 million | endowment and naming gift for the Andrew and Peggy Cherng Department of Medical Engineering |
| 8. | Pennsylvania State U. at University Park | Donald P. Bellisario | writer, producer, and director of such television series as Magnum P.I., Quantum Leap, JAG, and NCIS, among others, and a 1961 Penn State alumnus with a degree in journalism | $30 million (pledge) | establishment of the Donald P. Bellisario Media Center to house television studios and video-creation space; support for programs and faculty leadership in the university’s College of Communications, which was renamed for the donor; scholarships for communications students, with preference given to undergraduates who are veterans, active-duty service members, reservists, or National Guard members |
| 8. | U. of California at Irvine | Samueli Foundation (Henry and Susan Samueli) | co-founder of the semiconductor corporation Broadcom who is an adjunct professor in Irvine’s electrical-engineering and computer-science department (Mr. Samueli); owners of the Anaheim Ducks | $30 million | support for construction of a new science and engineering building |
| 11. | U. of Chicago | Neubauer Family Foundation (Joseph Neubauer and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer) | retired chairman of the Aramark Corporation, which provides food and uniform services to large institutions and public facilities, who earned an M.B.A. from Chicago in 1965 and is chair of the university’s Board of Trustees (Mr. Neubauer); founder of the marketing and communications firm J.P. Lerman & Company and a former vice president for communications at Time Warner (Ms. Lerman-Neubauer) | $25 million | endowment for Ph.D. programs in the humanities and the physical and social sciences, intended to provide student stipends and strengthen programs to improve students’ professional skills |
| 11. | Oregon State U. | Anonymous | n/a | $25 million | support for expansion of the LaSells Stewart Center, an arts and education complex that will house performance spaces, a new concert hall, and classrooms |
| 11. | U. of Texas Health San Antonio | Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long | retired Texas banker and lawyer (Mr. Long) | $25 million | endowments of $20 million for medical-school faculty recruitment, $4 million for scholarships for Texas students studying to be physicians, and $1 million for the dean’s position at the medical school, which will be renamed the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine |
| 14. | Brown U. | Richard A. and Susan P. Friedman Family Foundation (Richard A. and Susan P. Friedman) | head of the merchant-banking division at Goldman Sachs, 1979 Brown alumnus, and fellow of the Corporation of Brown University (Mr. Friedman); 1977 alumna (Ms. Friedman); parents of a 2008 alumna | $24 million | renovation of the interior of the historic Wilson Hall, which will be renamed Friedman Hall, to create new classrooms, add social spaces, and make the building more accessible |
| 15. | Monmouth College | Anonymous | n/a | $20 million (pledge) | expansion of the endowment |
| 15. | U. of California at Los Angeles | Samueli Foundation (Henry and Susan Samueli) | chief technical officer at Broadcom Limited, which manufactures semiconductors; recipient of bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from UCLA in 1975, 1976, and 1980; while a faculty member in engineering at UCLA in 1991, he co-founded Broadcom with one of his students, Henry Nicholas, and the company was acquired by Avago Technologies last year for $37 billion (Mr. Samueli) | $20 million | support for a new program at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science that will provide scholarships and internships for as many as 50 freshman students annually; the program is intended to increase diversity of undergraduate students in engineering and computer science |
| 15. | U. of California at Los Angeles, School of Law | Eric Esrailian | co-chief of the division of digestive diseases at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine and lead producer for the new feature film The Promise, whose setting is the Armenian genocide that began in 1915 | $20 million (pledge of film profits) | establishment of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, to expand teaching and research on persecution |
| 18. | College of William & Mary | Hunter Jones Smith | 1951 graduate of William & Mary, and widow of Carl Smith, founder of the coal and natural-gas company Amvest, who died in 2005 | $15 million | expansion and renovation of the college’s historic Alumni House |
| 18. | Iona College | Hynes Foundation (James and Anne Marie Hynes) | co-founder and former chief executive of Inteliquent, a telecommunications provider, and an Iona alumnus (Mr. Hynes); lawyer specializing in nonprofit law (Ms. Hynes) | $15 million | creation of the Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, which will provide an interdisciplinary curricular focus for students in any major, offer new majors and minors in entrepreneurship, and appoint new endowed faculty fellows |
| 18. | Lipscomb U. | George Shinn | former owner of the NBA’s Charlotte/New Orleans Hornets, now known as the New Orleans Pelicans | $15 million | support for a new events center and other programs at the College of Entertainment & the Arts, which will be named for the donor |
| 18. | Northwestern U., Feinberg School of Medicine | John and Laura Potocsnak | chief executive of Corrugated Supplies Company, a manufacturer of cardboard boxes in Chicago (Mr. Potocsnak) | $15 million | support for a biomedical-research center at the medical school that will focus on cancer, heart disease, neurodegenerative disorders, and genetics |
| 19. | Stony Brook U. Cancer Center | Lalit and Kavita Bahl | manager of the Speech Recognition Algorithms Group at the IBM Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y. (Mr. Bahl) | $13.75 million (pledge) | establishment of the new Center for Metabolomics and Imaging, for cancer research, diagnostic imaging, and personalized cancer care; $3.5-million of the pledge has already been given to purchase a cyclotron, a cancer-imaging instrument |
| 20. | Weill Cornell Medicine | Jeffrey Feil and family | real-estate investor in New York (Mr. Feil) | $12.5 million | creation of a new student center with spaces for classes, collaborative projects, advanced patient-care training, and student activities |
| 21. | Auburn U. | James (Jimmy) Rane, in honor of his late parents, Tony and Libba Rane | former district judge in Henry County, Alabama, and founder of Great Southern Wood Preserving, a manufacturer of pressure-treated pine; 1968 Auburn alumnus with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees (James Rane); owners of several restaurants, retail stores, and hotel franchises (Tony and Libba Rane) | $12 million (pledge) | establishment of a new facility to be named the Tony and Libba Rane Culinary Science Center in honor of the donor’s parents |
| 22. | U. of Michigan Depression Center | Kenneth and Frances Eisenberg and family | chairman and chief executive of Kenwal Steel Corporation (Mr. Eisenberg); 1964 Michigan alumni (Mr. and Ms. Eisenberg) | $10.75 million | support for expanded research on the causes of depression and potential new personalized treatments; endowment for a professorship, future research programs, and awards for early-career research and effective leadership in the field |
| 23. | Rice U., Houston Education Research Consortium | Kinder Foundation (Richard and Nancy Kinder) | co-founder and executive chairman of Kinder Morgan, an energy company headquartered in Houston (Mr. Kinder); founding chairman of the nonprofit organization Discovery Green Conservancy (Ms. Kinder) | $10.7 million | expansion of the research consortium’s work to close socioeconomic achievement gaps to more school districts in the greater Houston area |
| 24. | Boston U. | Stephen and Janet Booth Zide | senior adviser of private equity and a managing director at Bain Capital, in New York, who earned his law degree at Boston in 1986 (Mr. Zide) | $10 million | support for a new theater complex, which will be named for Ms. Zide’s parents, Joan and Edgar Booth |
| 24. | Carnegie Mellon U. | Frank Brunckhorst | former chairman of Boar’s Head Provisions, a delicatessen-foods supplier founded by his great-grandfather; 1987 Carnegie Mellon alumnus, with a bachelor’s degree in business, and a member of the Board of Trustees since 2005 | $10 million | endowment named for the donor to support undergraduate scholarships |
| 24. | Dartmouth College | Frank J. Guarini | former New Jersey congressman and a 1946 graduate of Dartmouth | $10 million (pledge) | additional support for study-abroad programs at Dartmouth’s Frank J. Guarini Institute for International Education |
| 24. | Florida Gulf Coast U. | Elaine Nicpon Marieb | an author of anatomy and physiology college textbooks | $10 million (pledge) | creation of and support for a collection of faculty-led clinical centers for the College of Health Professions & Social Work, which has been renamed the Elaine Nicpon Marieb College of Health and Human Services |
| 24. | Florida International U. | Moss Foundation (Chad Moss) | executive vice president of Moss & Associates, a construction-management company, who graduated from Florida International in 1994 with a bachelor’s degree in construction management (Mr. Moss) | $10 million | endowment of scholarships for first-generation students, veterans, disadvantaged youth, and other people; a directorship; and a fund for faculty and postgraduate research, student academic and industry efforts; and continuing education and other projects in the College of Engineering & Computing, which will be renamed the Moss School of Construction, Infrastructure and Sustainability |
| 24. | Southeastern Louisiana U. Foundation | Seth Ryan, in honor of his late wife, Thelma McNamara Nicaud Ryan | investor who graduated from Southeastern Louisiana in 1953 with a degree in business and who died in January 2017 (Mr. Ryan) | $10 million (bequest) | fund to endow scholarships for women studying STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math) or pursuing degrees in business, education, or nursing, named in honor of the donor’s late wife, who was unable to attend college |
| 24. | U. of Houston-Downtown | Marilyn Davies | chief executive of Bailey Banks Seismic, a seismic-data company | $10 million | support for the College of Business, which will be renamed for the donor, making it the first college of business in Texas to be named for a woman |
| 24. | U. of Pennsylvania, Wharton School | Ken Moelis and his wife, Julie Taffet Moelis | founder, chairman, and chief executive of Moelis & Company, a global investment bank, who earned an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. from Wharton in 1980 and 1981 and is on the university’s Board of Trustees (Mr. Moelis); 1981 Wharton graduate (Ms. Moelis) | $10 million | establishment of the Ken Moelis and Julie Taffet Moelis Advance Access Program, a deferred-admission program that allows Penn undergraduates to apply for Wharton’s M.B.A. program in their senior year, work for several years, then return to the university to complete their master’s degree; much of the gift will go toward merit scholarships |
| 24. | U. of San Francisco | Robert P. and Joan McGrath | retired founder of McGrath RentCorp, which rents modular buildings, industrial liquid-storage tanks, and electronic-measurement equipment to businesses (Mr. McGrath); former executive vice president at McGrath RentCorp, and a former nun and Catholic-school principal who received a master’s in theology from San Francisco in 1969 (Ms. McGrath) | $10 million | support of programs at San Francisco’s School of Education, including $6 million to endow scholarships for graduate students in the new McGrath Institute for Jesuit Catholic Education, which will focus on educational issues facing Catholic schools; the remainder will support of a separate institute for students who show leadership potential and endow undergraduate scholarships for international-immersion programs |
| 24. | U. of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts | George Lucas Family Foundation (George Lucas) | Star Wars mogul (Mr. Lucas) | $10 million | endowment for scholarships for African-American and Hispanic students in undergraduate and graduate programs in the school |
| 34. | Butler U. | Winstan and Jacqueline Sellick | owners of two insurance agencies who was involved in the commercial-real-estate business; 1947 alumnus whose father was an economics professor and treasurer at Butler (Mr. Sellick, who died in 2015); owner and operator of commercial real estate and a 1944 Butler graduate (Ms. Sellick, who died in 2012) | $9.4 million (bequest) | support for Butler Athletics, the Lacy School of Business, and other programs; the Butler Bowl, the campus football and soccer stadium, will be renamed the Bud and Jackie Sellick Bowl in their honor |
| 35. | Indiana State U. | Todd Osburn and his wife, Caroline Howe | founding partner of Greyrock Capital Group, a private-equity firm, and an Indiana State alumnus (Mr. Osburn) | $7.5 million (pledge) | $5 million to endow a scholarship for students in the Scott College of Business; $2.5 million to create a professional-readiness fund |
| 36. | Stanford Law School | Anonymous | n/a | $7.4 million (bequest) | expansion of the endowment for the law school’s public-interest and public-service work. |
| 37. | Florida Atlantic U. | Harvey and Phyllis Sandler | founder of Sandler Capital Management, a private-equity firm (Mr. Sandler) | $7 million | support for the School of Social Work, which will be named for the couple; creation of two new centers within the school, the Robin Rubin Mindfulness and Wellness Center and the Substance Misuse, Mental Health and Research Center; renovations to the College for Design and Social Inquiry |
| 38. | Las Positas College Foundation | David and Barbara Mertes | district vice-chancellor for Las Positas College (Ms. Mertes, who died in 2015); chancellor of the California Community College system (Mr. Mertes, who died in 2014) | $6.85 million (bequest) | establishment of three endowments for scholarships: one for students transferring to a four-year institution to continue studying the performing arts; another for students transferring to a four-year institution with any major and will include financial aid for one male and one female basketball team member; and a third to support students working toward an associate of arts degree in the allied-health field |
| 39. | U. of St. Thomas-Houston | James M. Hughes | retired architectural engineer (Mr. Hughes, who died in April 2016) | $6.5 million (bequest) | establishment of a scholarship fund |
| 40. | U. of Vermont | Gordon and Llura Liggett Gund and their sons and daughters-in-law, Grant and Lara Gund and Zachary and Lindsey Gund | chief executive of Gund Investment Corporation, a venture-capital firm in Princeton, N.J. (Gordon Gund); Vermont alumni (Grant and Zachary Gund) | $6 million (partial challenge pledge) | establishment of the Gund Institute for Environment, which will replace and enlarge the scope of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics, which the family created in 2002; an additional $4 million is pledged once the university raises $8 million from other donors for the institute |
| 41. | Northwestern U. Institute for Sustainability and Energy | Jeff and Laurie Ubben | founder and managing partner of ValueAct Capital, an investment firm in San Francisco, who earned an M.B.A. from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management in 1987 and is a Northwestern trustee (Mr. Ubben); co-founder of the Bird School of Music in San Francisco (Ms. Ubben) | $5.5 million | establishment of the Ubben Program for Climate and Carbon Science and support for the study of alternatives to fossil fuels |
| 42. | Emory & Henry College | Kathryn Burke Greever | an alumna and an associate professor emerita of education and human services at West Virginia University. | $1.1 million | $1 million to endow a professorship in business and $148,000 for a scholarship fund for financially needy students |
| 43. | California State U. at Fresno | Manuel Mancebo Jr. | manager of his family’s trucking business, Kings County Truck Lines, which transported milk products and dried goods and which he sold in 2006 | $1 million (pledge) | support for the dairy-science program in the Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences & Technology |
| 43. | Franklin & Marshall College | Ken Mehlman | a member of the investment firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Company, in New York, who was campaign manager for President George W. Bush’s 2004 re-election, and is a Franklin & Marshall 1988 alumnus and trustee | $1 million | money for a new program that will provide financial and academic support, as well as mentorships and internships, to students who have overcome great adversity to attend college |
| 43. | Montana Tech of the U. of Montana | Paul and Andrea Hladky | vice president at Cyclone Drilling, which drills and manages rigs for oil and gas companies, and a 1999 graduate and former student athlete of Montana Tech (Mr. Hladky) | $1 million | creation of the Hladky Family Creative Center in the college’s new Student Success Center |
| 43. | Our Lady of the Lake U. | Elizabeth Carrow-Woolfolk and Robert Woolfolk | speech and language pathologist in Houston | $1 million (pledge) | creation of a doctoral program in speech pathology and establishment of the Elizabeth Carrow Woolfolk and Robert M. Woolfolk School of Communication Sciences and Disorders |
| 43. | Seward County Community College | Kent Colvin | chief executive of High Plains Pizza, a restaurant chain in Liberal, Kan., that his father founded | $1 million | support for construction of the Colvin Family Allied Health Center |
| 43. | U. of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine | Iris Cantor | president of the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation and a former vice chair of Cantor Fitzgerald, the securities firm founded by her late husband (Ms. Cantor) | $1 million (pledge) | development of new curricula, training of integrative-health professionals, and expansion of the center’s residency program to include a women’s-health specialty |
| 43. | U. of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Laura Moore and her husband, Don Sanders | director of the the Health Science Center’s Dietetic Internship Program, and co-director of its nutrition-education program (Ms. Moore) | $1 million | support for the nutrition-education program |
| 43. | Vanderbilt U. | Anonymous donors | n/a | $1 million | support for faculty research and student-immersion activities in the earth and environmental-sciences department |
