| 1. | U. of Michigan at Ann Arbor | Richard and Susan Rogel | Richard Rogel, a 1970 Michigan graduate, is president of the investment firm Tomay, and founder and former chairman and chief executive of the Preferred Provider Organization of Michigan. | $110 million (pledge) | support for scholarships for medical students and for research, treatments, and endowed professorships at the Comprehensive Cancer Center, which will be renamed the Rogel Cancer Center |
| 2. | Miami U. (Ohio) | David Dafoe | founder of Flavorman, a beverage-development company in Louisville, Ky., and a 1984 graduate of Miami | $30.1 million (pledge) | scholarships for high-need students in the College of Arts and Science |
| 3. | Manhattan College | Thomas O’Malley and his wife, Mary Alice | Thomas O’Malley is the retired chairman and chief executive of the oil-refinery company PBF Energy, based in New Jersey. A 1963 graduate of the college, he served as chairman of its Board of Trustees from 2005 to 2012. | $25 million | support for student scholarships and grants, and programs in the college’s business school, which will be named the O’Malley School of Business |
| 4. | New York U. School of Law | Frank J. Guarini | a former New Jersey state senator, a former U.S. congressman, and a former U.S. representative to the General Assembly of the United Nations who earned a juris doctorate from the law school in 1950 | $20 million | creation of the Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies, which extends the university’s international law programs and efforts |
| 4. | U. of California at Los Angeles | Eugene and Maxine Rosenfeld | Eugene Rosenfeld owns Forest Lane Management, an international real-estate investment and development firm. | $20 million (pledge) | support for renovation and expansion of a high-tech medical-simulation center to train medical students in the new Eugene & Maxine Rosenfeld Hall, which will also house the Center for Advanced Surgical and Interventional Technology |
| 4. | Vanderbilt U. | Bruce R. and Bridgitt Evans | Bruce Evans, a 1981 Vanderbilt graduate, is a managing director of the investment firm Summit Partners and chairman of the university’s Board of Trust. Bridgitt Evans is a co-founder and president of VIA Art Fund, a nonprofit organization that supports the contemporary visual arts. | $20 million (pledge that includes an unrestricted bequest) | support for the undergraduate residential experience and leadership positions in the School of Engineering, along with a pledged bequest for unrestricted use |
| 4. | Virginia Tech | David Calhoun | senior managing director at Blackstone, in New York, and a 1979 Virginia Tech alumnus | $20 million | support to recruit and retain participants in the newly created Calhoun Honors Discovery Program and to develop and teach the program’s curriculum and establish the Calhoun Center for Higher Education Innovation |
| 8. | Lincoln Land Community College | Charles R. and Irene Kreher | The couple owned a farm in Blue Mound, Ill. Charles Kreher died in 2009 and Irene Kreher in 2017. | $18 million (bequest) | endowment to provide support for expansion of the college’s agriculture program, including development of an education program on the Kreher farm, and scholarships |
| 8. | Ohio State U. | Bob and Corrine Frick | The couple own Roosters, a chain of restaurants in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and West Virginia. | $18 million (bequest) | establishment of the Bob and Corrine Frick Center for Heart Failure and Arrhythmia at Ohio State’s Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital, and of research chairs, a professorship, and a fellowship in the specialty of heart failure and arrhythmia |
| 8. | Stetson U. | J. Hyatt and Cici Brown | Hyatt Brown, a former speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, retired as chief executive of his insurance agency, Brown & Brown, in 2009. The couple are on Stetson’s Board of Trustees. | $18 million | support for construction of a new science center on the DeLand campus and expansion of science programs |
| 11. | Georgia Institute of Technology | A. James & Alice B. Clark Foundation (Alice B. Clark) | Alice Clark’s late husband, who died in 2015, was chairman of Clark Enterprises, a holding company in Maryland, and Clark Construction Group. | $15 million | creation and endowment of the A. James Clark Scholars Program in the College of Engineering |
| 12. | Arkansas State U. at Jonesboro, College of Business | F. O’Neil Griffin | a 1948 Arkansas State alumnus and a retired banker who led two publicly held corporations and was a partner with Eastman Dillon, Union Securities & Company, now part of UBS | $10 million | endowment of scholarships and professorships and support for operations within the college, which was renamed the Neil Griffin College of Business |
| 12. | California Polytechnic State U. at Pomona | James A. and Carol Collins | James Collins is the former chairman of Worldwide Restaurant Concepts, which operates franchises of Sizzler and Kentucky Fried Chicken worldwide. | $10 million | support for the Collins College of Hospitality Management and establishment of an endowment to provide scholarship and internship opportunities to historically underrepresented undergraduate and graduate hospitality-management students |
| 12. | Temple U. | Stephen G. Charles | co-founder of immixGroup, a Virginia company that distributes software and hardware products to the federal government, a member of the university’s Board of Trustees, and a 1980 Temple graduate | $10 million | endowment for the university’s libraries; a new library scheduled to open in 2019 will be named Charles Library in the donor’s honor |
| 12. | U. of California at Los Angeles | Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation (Anthony and Jeanne Pritzker) | Anthony Pritzker is an heir to the Hyatt Hotel fortune and managing partner of the Pritzker Group, a venture-capital firm in Chicago and Los Angeles. | $10 million | support for the new UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, which will try to help children avoid entering the child welfare system |
| 12. | U. of Maine at Orono | Anonymous | the family of a Maine engineering graduate | $10 million | support for construction of the university’s new Engineering Education and Design Center, which will be named for the donor after the name is revealed |
| 17. | Saint Louis U. | Mary Hoppe | Hoppe and her husband were 1951 graduates of the university, she from the School of Nursing and he from the School of Medicine. He died in 2002, and she died in 2017. | $8.4 million (bequest) | creation of the Dr. and Mrs. Robert C. Hoppe Endowed Scholarship, for financially needy students in every program in the School of Nursing |
| 18. | Purdue U. | John H. Schnatter Family Foundation (John and Annette Schnatter) | John Schnatter is the founder, chairman, and former chief executive of Papa John’s, a pizza company based in Kentucky. | $8 million | support for a research center, which is being renamed the John H. Schnatter Center for Economic Research at Purdue |
