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Billion-Dollar Donation From Netflix's Reed Hastings Leads 2024's List of Biggest Gifts
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest gifts.
Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave 2 million shares of Netflix stock valued at $1.1 billion in January.
The Chronicle's annual list of the biggest charitable donations from individuals or their foundations totaled nearly $6 billion in 2024, with half of that coming from three contributions of $1 billion or more each.
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