$9 million: Toni Rembe Rock, a lawyer, and Arthur Rock, one of America’s first venture capitalists, to California Academy of Sciences to provide free field trips to schoolchildren in San Francisco. The couple gave $11 million to the program in 2008.
$7.5 million: Sue and Robert O’Donnell, retired portfolio manager and director of Capital Research and Management Company, to Denison University for renovation of the William Howard Doane Library and a program in narrative nonfiction writing.
$5 million: Edythe and Eli Broad, Los Angeles-based philanthropists, to California Institute of Technology to endow a chair in honor of Nobel laureate David Baltimore. A past president of Caltech, Baltimore has researched cancer, AIDS and the immune response.
$5 million: Jennifer and Rob Waldron, CEO of Curriculum Associates, to Jumpstart, to help prepare low-income preschool children for kindergarten. The couple is making the gift through a donor-advised fund at the Boston Foundation, to be distributed over 10 years.
$5 million: Janet Perna, a retired IBM executive, to SUNY Oneonta for programs and scholarships with a focus on women in technology. Perna studied mathematics at the upstate New York school.
$5 million: Charles Koch, chairman of Koch Industries, through the Charles Koch Foundation to George Mason University to create three faculty positions in the economics department.
$5 million: Linda and Keith Monda, former president of Coach, to endow a modern and contemporary art curator position at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida. The donation encompasses a Yayoi Kusama painting and a Richard Serra print.
$4 million: Ellen and Bob Vladem, who built his fortune through trucking, logistics and car dealerships, to the New Mexico Museum of Art in Santa Fe. The gift is to open Vladem Contemporary, an annex for contemporary art.
$4 million: William Lauder, chairman of Estee Lauder, to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he’s a trustee. The gift supports the Wharton Leadership Fellows, second-year MBA students trained to mentor first-years.
$2 million: Sandy Miller, a general partner at venture capital firm IVP, with his family, to the University of Virginia’s Fralin Museum of Art to endow the directorship. Miller and his wife Vinie collect Chinese ink paintings.