America’s most generous giver of the year, Warren Buffet, has donated $56.7 billion over his lifetime, which amounts to about 30% of his net worth.
In contrast, the Stryker family, one of healthcare’s richest dynasties, has an estimated net worth of $15.9 billion.
While no healthcare billionaires were named among the top donors, they are not completely missing from philanthropic efforts.
Stryker heiress Ronda Stryker donated $100 million to Kalamazoo-based Western Michigan University in 2011, $20 million to Boston-based Harvard Medical School in 2016 and $30 million to Atlanta-based Spelman College in 2018.
Her siblings, Pat and Jon, donated a combined $10 million to fund the nation’s first memorial to the victims of racial terror lynchings in 2016.
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