| 1. | Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History | Edward P. Bass | chairman of Fine Line, an investment and venture-capital management firm, in Fort Worth; an heir to an oil fortune; and a 1967 Yale alumnus | $160 million | support for renovations and expansion of the museum |
| 2. | U. of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus | Anschutz Foundation (Philip Anschutz) | Philip Anschutz is owner of the Los Angeles Kings hockey team and a third of the L.A. Lakers basketball team as well as holdings in entertainment, oil, railroads, real estate, and telecommunications. He is a co-founder of Major League Soccer. | $120 million | support for a new health-sciences building, research, faculty recruitment and retention, technology transfer, and other programs |
| 3. | Western State Colorado U. | Paul M. Rady | chief executive and chairman of Antero Resources, an oil and natural-gas company in Denver, and Antero Midstream Partners, and a 1978 graduate of Western | $80 million | support for establishment of the new Paul M. Rady School of Computer Science and Engineering, including a new building |
| 4. | Amherst College | anonymous | n/a | $50 million | gift to a comprehensive campaign intended to support the college’s new interdisciplinary science center, hiring of more faculty members, and need-based scholarships |
| 4. | Saint Louis U. | Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield | Rex Sinquefield, a Saint Louis alumnus and member of the Board of Trustees, is a co-founder and retired executive vice president of the investment firm Dimensional Fund Advisors. Jeanne Sinquefield is a retired executive vice president of the firm. | $50 million | support for the establishment of the Saint Louis University Research Institute and the Sinquefield Center for Applied Economic Research, and for the university’s chess team |
| 4. | U. of California at San Diego | Andrew J. Viterbi | co-founder and retired vice chairman of Qualcomm and an engineering professor emeritus at the university | $50 million | naming gift for the Viterbi Family Department of Ophthalmology and the Viterbi Family Vision Research Center; endowment of six new professorships |
| 7. | Michigan State U. | Edward Minskoff | founder of the real-estate development firm Edward J. Minskoff Equities and a 1962 university alumnus | $30 million | support for completion of the Business Pavilion, a learning and career-development center, at the Eli Broad College of Business |
| 8. | U. of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, Culverhouse College of Commerce | Marillyn A. and James Hewson | Marillyn Hewson is chairman, president, and chief executive of Lockheed Martin, the aerospace, defense, and security-technology company. The couple both graduated from the university. | $15 million (value of stock) | support for the Culverhouse College of Commerce |
| 9. | College of William & Mary | Jane Batten | widow of Frank Batten, founder of Landmark Communications, which owned the Weather Channel and Weather.com; he died in 2009 | $10 million | creation of a center for online learning in the Raymond A. Mason School of Business |
| 9. | Georgetown U. Law Center | Bruce and Ann Blume | Bruce Blume, who earned a law degree from the law school in 1980, founded Blume Company Real Estate, in Seattle. | $10 million | support to establish the Blume Public Leadership Institute, which will give students with promise to become public leaders full-tuition scholarships and training specific to the public role |
| 9. | Indiana U. Health | Shelly Schwarz | widow of Joe Schwarz, a real-estate entrepreneur who died in March after battling cancer | $10 million (pledge) | support to establish the Joe and Shelly Schwarz Cancer Center at the university’s Health North Hospital |
| 9. | Purdue U. at West Lafayette | L. Dick Buell | former chief executive of Catalina Marketing Corporation; an executive adviser at Silver Pine Partners, a private-equity firm in Illinois; and a 1972 graduate of the university | $10 million (pledge) | endowment for the men’s basketball head-coaching position |
| 9. | St. Lawrence U. | Thomas Dolan and the Dolan Family Foundation | a director at AMC Networks and 1974 university graduate whose father, Charles, founded the telecommunications company Cablevision, which Altice acquired in 2016 for $17 billion | $10 million | support for renovation of the university’s sports arena |
| 9. | Stanford U. School of Medicine | Blavatnik Family Foundation (Len Blavatnik) | Len Blavatnik is founder and chairman of Access Industries, an investment company with holdings in media and telecommunications, natural resources, chemicals, and real estate. | $10 million (pledge) | fund for Ph.D. fellowships for graduate-level research in the biomedical sciences |
| 9. | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Ronald N. and Eileen Lappin Weiser | Ronald Weiser, who served as U.S. ambassador to Slovakia from 2001 to 2004 and is a member of the university’s Board of Regents, founded McKinley, a real-estate investment company, in Ann Arbor. | $10 million | creation of the Weiser Diplomacy Center, which will bring diplomats and foreign-policy experts to campus; it will be housed in the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy |
| 9. | U. of Notre Dame | Rick and Molly Klau | Rick Klau is chairman of the Hajoca Corporation, a wholesale distributor of plumbing, heating, and industrial supplies. | $10 million | support and endowment for the Center for Civil and Human Rights, which will be renamed for the donors |