| 1. | Baylor U. | anonymous | n/a | $100 million | capital-campaign contribution, with a portion a challenge pledge intended to create up to 17 new professorships, and another portion the lead gift for a new basketball pavilion |
| 2. | U. of California at San Francisco | Marc and Lynne Benioff | Marc Benioff is founder and co-chief executive of Salesforce.com, a customer-relationship management platform, in San Francisco. | $30 million | establishment of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, a center for research on the causes of homelessness and ways to prevent it |
| 2. | U. of Pennsylvania, Kleinman Center for Energy Policy | anonymous | n/a | $30 million | support for research, hiring of new faculty members in energy policy, and programs at the Kleinman center |
| 4. | Brown U. | Bravo Family Foundation (Orlando Bravo) | Orlando Bravo, a 1992 Brown alumnus, is a co-founder and managing partner of Thoma Bravo, a private-equity firm in Chicago and San Francisco. | $25 million | $15 million for the creation of the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research, and $10 million to recruit and retain faculty members in economics |
| 5. | Indiana U., School of Art, Architecture + Design, | Sidney and Lois Eskenazi | Sidney Eskenazi, who earned bachelor’s and law degrees from Indiana, founded the real-estate development company Sandor Development. Lois Eskenazi, who worked as a medical and lab technician, also earned a bachelor’s degree from the university. | $20 million | support for student scholarships, faculty development, academic programs, research efforts, and facilities at the school, which will be renamed for the couple |
| 6. | U. of Utah | Garff family | Robert Garff is chairman of the Ken Garff Automotive Group, which was founded by his father in 1932 in Salt Lake City. His sons, Matthew and John Garff, are executives in the family business. | $17.5 million (pledge) | lead gift for the renovation and expansion of Rice-Eccles Stadium |
| 7. | Colgate U. | anonymous couple | n/a | $15 million | $5 million in financial aid and $10 million to name a new residence halls in honor of Jane Lagoudis Pinchin, a former provost and dean of the faculty, a former interim president, and a professor emerita of English at Colgate |
| 7. | Quinnipiac U. | William and Barbara Weldon | William Weldon is the retired chairman and chief executive of the health-products company Johnson & Johnson, and chairman of Quinnipiac’s Board of Trustees. He and his wife both graduated from the university in 1971. | $15 million | support for efforts described in the university’s new strategic plan |
| 7. | U. of Pennsylvania, Wharton School | anonymous | n/a | $15 million | creation of the Data Science and Business Analytics Fund, which will support Analytics at Wharton, an effort to use big data to improve decision-making by businesses |
| 10. | U. of Chicago Law School | David Rubenstein | co-founder and co-chief executive of the Carlyle Group, a private-equity firm in Washington; a 1973 graduate of the Law School; and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees | $13 million | additional support for the Rubenstein Scholars Program, which he started with a $10 million gift in 2010 and which provides full-tuition three-year scholarships for law students |
| 11. | Arizona State U. | Leo and Annette Beus | Leo Beus co-founded Beus Gilbert, a law firm in Phoenix. | $10 million | support for the completion of the Beus Compact X-ray Free Electron Laser Lab, which will house a compact X-ray laser, to be used for potential advances in medicine, computers, and renewable energy |
| 11. | Case Western Reserve U. | Coleman P. Burke | founder of Waterfront Companies, a commercial real-estate firm in New York, and a 1970 School of Law graduate | $10 million | establishment of the Coleman P. Burke Center for Environmental Law, which will support multidisciplinary research |
| 11. | Rollins College | Kathleen W. Rollins | a 1975 Rollins graduate (who is no relation to the founder of the college), a member of the Board of Trustees, and the wife of Gary W. Rollins, chief executive of Rollins pest-control company | $10 million (pledge) | renovation of Mills Memorial Hall, which will be renamed for the donor |
| 11. | Washington U. School of Medicine in St. Louis | Andrew and Barbara Taylor | Andrew Taylor is executive chairman of Enterprise Holdings, the parent company of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, National Car Rental, and Alamo Rent A Car. | $10 million | additional support for the Taylor Family Institute for Innovative Psychiatric Research, founded in 2012, including $7 million for research into the scientific underpinnings of psychiatric illnesses and $3 million to endow a professorship |
| 15. | Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts | Estelle Barenbaum Rubens | a volunteer docent at the academy’s museum who died in 2018 at the age of 88, and whose late husband, Raymond Rubens, a lawyer, died in 2002 | $8 million (bequest) | establishment of two-part scholarships that will pay travel expenses for students to visit Europe and cover full tuition costs for their last year of study |
| 16. | McKendree U. | John Bailey | real-estate investor in Dallas, a 1976 McKendree graduate, and a member of the university’s Board of Trustees | $6 million (pledge) | contribution to the capital campaign to renovate Holman Library and Voigt Science Hall, and to endow scholarships and professorships |
| 16. | Stanford U. School of Medicine | Tad and Dianne Taube | Tad Taube, who earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Stanford, is founder of Woodmont Companies, a real-estate development firm in California. | $6 million (pledge) | establishment of the Taube Initiative in Pediatric Cancer Research, to include support for two faculty members and a fund for innovation |
| 16. | U. of Florida, Fredric G. Levin College of Law | Fredric G. Levin | chairman of the law firm Levin, Papantonio, Thomas, Mitchell, Rafferty & Proctor, in Florida | $6 million (value of stock) | money for student scholarships to mark the 20th anniversary of the donor’s $10 million naming gift for the college in 1999 and to honor his late wife, Marilyn Kapner Levin |
