Philanthropists
Fortunes measured by what they give away.
6 profiles, published in one list. Every profile is fact-checked against its sources, and every source opens inside the magazine.
Six profiles of people whose fortunes are measured by what they give away — the shortest list in the magazine, and in some ways the most demanding to be on.
The list features Yvon Chouinard, MacKenzie Scott, Priscilla Chan and Tom Monaghan. Each profile covers both halves of the story: how the fortune was made, and how it is being given — to whom, in what form, and on what terms.
Giving at this scale is itself a kind of building, with its own structures and consequences. These six profiles examine it as seriously as any business on our other lists, with every fact sourced.
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