| 1. | U. of Virginia | Quantitative Foundation (Jaffray and Merrill Woodriff) | Jaffray Woodriff, a 1991 UVa graduate, is co-founder of Quantitative Investment Management, a hedge fund in Charlottesville, Va. Merrill Woodriff, a 1998 UVa graduate, is a co-director and co-owner of Bend Yoga Charlottesville. | $120 million | funds for creation of a new School of Data Science, including construction of a new building, and support for faculty members and administrators, doctoral and postdoctoral fellows, and visiting scholars |
| 2. | Northeastern U. | Amin and Julie Khoury | Amin Khoury, a member of Northeastern’s Board of Trustees, co-founded B/E Aerospace, and created several scientific-equipment companies. He and his wife, Julie, both earned M.B.A.s at Northeastern. | $50 million | endowment for the renamed Khoury College of Computer and Information Sciences |
| 3. | Spelman College | Ronda E. Stryker and William D. Johnston | Ronda Stryker, vice chair of Spelman’s Board of Trustees, is on the Board of Directors of Stryker Corporation, a medical-products company founded by her grandfather. William Johnston, her husband, is chairman of Greenleaf Trust, an investment banking firm. | $30 million | support for construction of the college’s new Center for Innovation & the Arts |
| 4. | Houston Baptist U. | Jim R. Smith Sr. and Sherry Smith | Jim Smith founded Smith & Company, a real-estate development firm in Houston. His father, Orrien Smith, was among the 25 founding fathers of the university. | $20 million | support for construction of classroom and laboratory space at the College of Engineering, the College of Science and Mathematics, and the School of Nursing and Allied Health |
| 5. | U. at Buffalo | George Ellis Jr. and Gladys Ellis | George Ellis, a physician in Connersville, Ind., earned a medical degree at Buffalo in 1945 and died in 2010; Gladys Ellis, a nurse for her husband’s practice, died last February. | $16.8 million (bequest) | support for the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (which already received, in 2011, an anonymous $40 million bequest from George Ellis; his name was not to be revealed until his wife’s death) |
| 6. | U. of Vermont | Richard and Deborah Tarrant | Richard Tarrant co-founded IDX Systems Corporation, a health-care technology company that he sold to General Electric in 2006. Deborah Tarrant, who directed the national-sales accounting department for Office Depot, is mayor of Hillsboro Beach, Fla. | $15 million | support for construction of an arena for men’s and women’s basketball, to be named the Tarrant Event Center |
| 7. | Baylor U. | Mark and Jennifer McCollum | Mark McCollum, a member of Baylor’s Board of Regents, is president and chief executive of Weatherford International, an oil and natural-gas services company in Houston. | $11.5 million | endowment for a professorship in data science and other university priorities |
| 8. | U. of Kentucky | Mira Ball | founder, with her late husband, Don Ball, of Ball Homes, a homebuilder in Lexington, Ky., and Barkham, a nonprofit construction company that built facilities at cost for local charities; the couple met as students at the university | $10 million (pledge) | support for financial-need-based scholarships for students from Nelson and Henderson Counties, in Kentucky |
| 8. | U. of Notre Dame | Anthony and Christie de Nicola | Anthony de Nicola is president and managing partner of Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, a private investment firm in New York. | $10 million | expansion of the work of the university’s now-renamed de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, which promotes Catholic teachings in art, the humanities, philosophy, history, science, public policy, and law |
| 10. | U. of Kansas | Joseph L. and Maude Ruth Cramer | Joseph Cramer, a petroleum geologist in Denver, died in 2013; Maude Ruth Cramer died in 2018. | $6.9 million (bequest) | support for the Odyssey Geoarchaeology Research Program, which searches for evidence of the earliest human presence in the Central Great Plains and western portions of the Midwest |
| 11. | Furman U. | Thomas Farmer | retired executive at Lowe’s Companies who opened the first Lowe’s home-improvement store in South Carolina and a 1950 Furman graduate; he died in 2014 at age 90 | $6 million (bequest) | endowments for scholarships and support for Furman’s Office of Innovation and Entrepreneurship |
| 11. | U. of Arkansas at Fayetteville | Barbara A. Tyson | independent director and former vice president of Tyson Foods, in Arkansas, and widow of Randal Tyson, a son of the company’s founder | $6 million | renovation and expansion of the university’s indoor track center, which is named for Randal Tyson |
| 13. | U. of California at Los Angeles, David Geffen School of Medicine | James and Carol Collins | James Collins is the retired chief executive of the restaurant chain Sizzler International, and is a 1950 graduate of UCLA. | $5 million | support for programs in dementia care, intergenerational counseling, and other areas, and expansion of fellowships and training in geriatric medicine |
| 13. | Vanderbilt U. | Greg S. and Elizabeth Sauereisen Allen | Greg Allen is managing partner of CI Partners, an investment firm that manages food, beverage, and health-care companies, and a member of the Vanderbilt Board of Trust. He graduated from Vanderbilt in 1984. His wife, Elizabeth, a freelance designer, graduated in 1983. | $5 million | support for undergraduate financial aid, faculty research, and teaching opportunities |
| 15. | U. of California at Irvine | Christian Werner | professor emeritus of geography and former dean of the university’s School of Social Sciences who died in 2016 at the age of 81 | $4.4 million (bequest) | support for an endowment for graduate fellowships at the university’s School of Social Sciences; the gift includes a house in Laguna Beach, Calif., priced at $2.3 million |
| 16. | Eastern Virginia Medical School | Leah and Richard Waitzer Foundation (Richard and Leah Waitzer) | Richard Waitzer owns investment, real-estate development, general contracting, and property-management companies in the Norfolk, Va., area. | $4 million | support for construction of a new building, to be named Waitzer Hall |
| 16. | Wabash College | Walter and Kathy Snodell | Walter Snodell, a 1968 graduate of the college, is chairman of Peerless Industries, a designer and manufacturer of digital signage and retail kiosks in Illinois. | $4 million | funds to recruit students from the Chicago area to enroll in the men’s college |