$10 million: Glen de Vries, 45, co-founder of Medidata Solutions, maker of clinical research software, to Carnegie Mellon University to endow the dean’s chair at the Mellon College of Science.
$10 million: Lola and Rob Salazar, founder of Central Street Capital Inc., to the University of Colorado-Denver for a new student wellness center.
$3 million: Ken Griffin, 49, founder of Citadel, to U.S. Soccer Foundation for national expansion of an afterschool soccer program.
$1.65 million: Howard G. Buffett, 63, to Dwayne O. Andreas Ag Academy, which prepares students for agribusiness careers. The school in Decatur, Illinois set to start classes in the fall is named after the late head of Archer Daniels Midland Co.
$1.2 million Jon Huntsman Sr., founder of Huntsman Corp., to the Road Home, a social services agency in Salt Lake City assisting the homeless. Huntsman’s son Jon, a former presidential candidate, is currently serving as U.S. ambassador to Russia.
$1.4 million: Long Island Regional Economic Development Council to Sag Harbor Partnership toward the purchase of the Sag Harbor Cinema. The movie house damaged in a fire will be restored and turned into a cultural center.
$800,000: Anousheh Ansari, a private space explorer and co-founder and CEO of Prodea Systems, and Rouzbeh Yassini-Fard, an early pioneer in cable modems, to Stanford University for a graduate fellowship in memory of mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani.
$500,000: Carolyn Hunter, a McDonald’s franchisee, to the proposed International African American Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. The museum is fundraising toward building a facility in Gadsden’s Wharf, once a busy port for the slave trade, by 2020.
$50,000: Jimmy John Liautaud, 53, founder of Jimmy John’s sandwich chain, to the Youth Assessment Center in Champaign, Illinois. The center offers juvenile diversion programs aimed at keeping youth out of the criminal justice system.
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