Benefactors

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Legacy Gifts

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This page reflects gifts received as of January 1, 2014. See Benefactors 2014-2015.

Major Benefactors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Laura and John Arnold
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
Antoine Bello
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Cards Against Humanity
Charina Endowment Fund
Craig Newmark Philanthropic Fund
craigslist Charitable Fund
Google Matching Gifts
Mary Graham
Humble Bundle
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Jim Pacha
The Rothschild Foundation
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Stanton Foundation
Two Sigma Investments LLC
Anonymous Donors (6)

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

Apple Matching Gift Program
Charina Endowment Fund
Dalio Foundation, Inc.
Fund for Second Nature
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
Spencer Glendon and Lisa Tung
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program
Keel Foundation
Jack Little
MathWorks
Microsoft Matching Gift Program
Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation
The Shor Family Foundation
Kimberly Sweidy & Raymie Stata
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Tides Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Yardi Systems
Anonymous Donors (7)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

The Aber D. Unger Foundation
Brad Abernethy
Argosy Foundation
David and Margaret Bettner
The Bitcoin Community
Tor Braham
Brickell Analytics LLC
Chris Brown
Annette Campbell-White
John Caulkins
James Chambers
Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
CNCRepair.com
Carl de Marcken
William Deramus
Ranae DeSantis
The Donnelley Foundation
Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
The Durst Organization LP
Eagleridge Foundation of Community Foundation, Sonoma County
Jennifer Ann Eckstine
Michael Fine (Mediander)
4Subsea
Becky & Brian Geisel
The Grainger Foundation
Graphics Press, LLC
The Gray Family (Calgary, AB)
Holly Gray
William & Lorna Hattler
Urs Hölzle
Michael Hollihan-Sarmiento
Home Improvement Leads
John Horne
Dave Humm
William F Hummel
PJ & Kendra Hyett
Jay Jones
Igor Kopylov
Steve Kass
Saori & Takashi Kousaka
Lawrence & Elaine Irell Foundation
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
Level 39
Markle Foundation
In memory of the late Colin Marks
Darrin Massena
Lloyd McAulay
Bill & Marilyn McCune
In memory of Joseph K. McLaughlin
Metz Family Foundation
Roberto Mignone
Fred Miller
Sheila Mossman
Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro
Anton Murashov
Newgen KnowledgeWorks
Newsmax Media
The Nia/Zahiri Foundation
Open Data Institute
Pale Blue Dot
Shyam Patel
P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust
PediaPress GmbH
Yana & Stephen Peel
Perforce Foundation
Drew Perkins
In memory of Pedro Petersen
Pinion Street Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund
Post Investment Group
William Prinzmetal
Christine Raimondi
Ed Reed
RetailMeNot
Rick & Susan Goings Foundation
Philip Rogers
Bow & Erina Ruggeri
Ruth & Peter Metz Family Foundation.
In memory of Jerry Salo
Isai Scheinberg
Scooter Software
Selz Foundation
The Shifting Foundation, in honor of Samuel M. Seaman
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silverleaf Foundation
Mark Heising & Liz Simons
Russel Simmons
Susan Isabel Foundation
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
Tupperware
Jaime & Elliot Turner
Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
William Van der Kloot
Samantha Xu
Donors of YourCause
David & Monica Zwirner
Anonymous Donors (87)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

ACON Laboratories, Inc.
AIG Matching Grants Program
Alex Aizman
Amina Omar Assem Akil
David R. Albrecht
In memory of Tim Allen
AmazonSmile Foundation
America's Charities
American Express Company Employee Giving Program
Amgen Foundation
Mashrur Anam - Life Harmonized
In loving memory of Professor T. R. Anantharaman, U.C. College, Alwaye, India
In memory of Sam & Lillian Anderman
Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
Dalibor Antonić
Greg Apodaca
Maite Arango
Etienne Ardant
Dimitris Armaos
Ascend Capital
Aspera
Jesse Ausubel
Sam & Sylvia Autrey
François Badelon
Prabhu & Rina Balasubramanian
Juliana & James Bancroft
R & A Bandela
Andrew Barcus & Cheryl True
Cori Bargmann
Kevin Barone
Gloria Barrack
Baseline Telecom, Inc
Douglas Bates and Mini Pathria
Kathy Bates
Peter Baumann
Ben Bayer
Jack Baylis
Beach Audio
Stefan Bengtsson
Heather Bendler
Stefan Bengtsson
Andy & Elliot Berndt
Jayashree and K.S. Bhaskar
Butch Biendara
Big Wheel Brigade
Bill, Sonoma County, CA USA
Peter Bing
Graeme Birchall
Bitcoin VPS by LibertyVPS
Brent Blumenstein
Boeing Co. Matching Gifts
Barry William Boehm
David C. Bohnett
Artem Bolgar
Honoring Beverly & George Bond
James S. Bostwick
Bill and Joann Boyd
BMT Micro, Inc.
Joseph C. & Carol M. Brandt
Barbara Breithaupt
Bright Horizon Fund
Daniel Brönnimann
Phil Brown
Thomas Buhr
Barry Buzan
David Bydeley
In honor of Glen Cain
Brian Cairns
Nina Callas
In honor of Donald Thomas Campbell
Craig Campbell
Rob Capps
Timothy Carey
Raul Carmenate
Jason Carroll
Adam Carte
Sally Cartwright
William Cassidy
Casual Connect
Caithness Foundation
CedarCide
Vint Cerf
Ian Chan
Nathan Chan
Channel Factory
Charles Maxfield & Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
Jim Chervenak
Stuart Cheshire
Howell Chickering
Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
James Cho & Sophia Kim
In loving memory of N.Gandhi Chowdary, Penumuli
Michael Choy & Shannon Moffett
Nicholas Chu & Vivian Fuh
Michelle Chuang
Charles Clark
In memory of Mattie Ruth Galloway Clark
Anne Marie Cole
Edouard Cole
In Memory of Giuseppe Colnaghi
Luke Comer
Ryan Conlon
John & Lenore Cooney
Thomas Cooper
Tom Cooper
CouponFollow
couponlab.com
CouponLawn
Coupon Traveller
Christopher Cowart
In memory of Deborah Cowan
Stone Coxhead
Meg Coyle
CRAIC Technologies Inc.
Critical Mass
In memory of Oliver Cromwell
Custom On It
Burt & Diana Cutler Family Foundation
Cyan
Daboosh Family, Israel
Fred Dart, FTDI
Database Consulting Group
Claudine Co & Danny Dawson
The Davidoff Family Fund
Laszlo Deak
Carole Deitrich
Department of Signals and Systems Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, Sweden
Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
Dev Bootcamp
Hester Diamond
Joshua S. Dillon
Alex Dingle
Sibbald Doan
In Memory of Paul L. Donoho
Jack Dorsey
Matthew Dorton
Kathleen Doster
William Dougherty
Frank H. Douglas
Michael & Denise Doyen
Matías Duarte
In memory of Kathy Dunn
Philippe Dunsky, Dunsky Energy Consulting
Edgar Durbin
Susanne Durst
The Durst Family
Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak
Richard Eaton and Brooks Eaton
Kenneth Eddings
Ron Bailey & Bill Edwards
Larry and Kas Eldridge
Evgenia Emets
Enablement Fund
Todd Enders
Charles Engelke and Laurie White
entumovil.net
Ryan Ericson
Davide G. Erro
Alan Eustace
EWCY Foundation
Timo Ewalds
Abe Farag Family Foundation
Peter Farrell
Damian Farry
Megan and Matthew Feinberg
Yoseph Feit
Arlen Feldman & Adriana Wood
Feral Interactive
Dave Ferguson & Nidhi Kalra
Anne & Russ Fernald
Renée B. Fisher Foundation
John Fisher
Gerald & Nancy Fishman
In memory of Joseph A Fleck Jr
Margaret Flickinger
Carla and Charlie Flournoy
Norman & Jill Fogelsong
David Ford
Robert Ford
Wesley Ford
William Ford
Gregory Fox
Bill & Peri Frantz
Janet and Lloyd Frink
In memory of Amie Frischer
David Fry and Meidee Goh
Paul Funk
In memory of Mikhail Galperin
Kevin Gamble
Marjorie Gasser
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
Gay Chemists Support Fund
GE Foundation Matching Gifts
Ken Geib
George & Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
Alan George
James George
James S George
Betty Harrell Gerlack
John Giannandrea
Tyson & Elizabeth Gill
Reed Gleason
Sam & Emily Glick
Jeff & Kelly Glisch
Lisa & Evan Goldberg
Richie Goldman
Robert J Gordon
J. Alex Graeffe
Grainger Matching Gifts Program
Brad Grantham and Kris Ingram
Green Bicycle Fund
Lawrence Greenfield
Dan Grossman
Mary Beth Guard
Russ & Barbara Guard
In memory of Chandrashekhar Gupta, Udaipur, from Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
Linne Ha
Alexandre Haag
Paul Haahr
Joanna Haas
Pauliana and Eric Hall
The Hamilton Foundation
Abdelkarim Hammad
Robert Hanek
Josh Bernoff and Kimberley Harding
In honor of Tom and Shoshana Harper
The Harrity Family
Aaron and Stacy Harsh
Janet and Richard Hart
Shabbir Hassan
Wayne Hathaway
Marshall Hawks
Philipp Haydn
Healers Who Share
Joachim Heck
Vanessa Heckman and Brett Babin
James Heilman
Paul Henry
Nathan Herring and Ms. Miller Sherling
In honor of B. Hesper
Jim Hobart
Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
Kenneth Holden
Jay Hormel
In loving memory of William B. Howland
Lisha and Andy Hu
Celia and Daniel Huber
Hulston Family Foundation
Robert and Beth Hurt
IBM Employee Donations
Carla and Philippe Ifrah
Imperial Reach
Indie Prize
INSERTO
Insiders Findland Oy Ab
Intetics Co.
Tetsuya Isozaki
IT WORKS Inc.
Douglas Jaffe
Micah Jaffe
Dirk Jagdmann
Kent Janér
Donald Jaycox
Amy and Josh Jernigan
JobDiva, Inc.
Johnson and Louise H. Clark Charitable Foundation
Mark Johnson
Dan Jones
Boyan Jovanovic
Joy is one's fuel
In memory of our smart, loving Grandma Judy
K3 Software Corp/RPOWER POS
Lucian Kafka and aura.travel
In honor of APJ Abdul Kalam, former President of India
Hans Kaper
Mitch Kapor
Ellen Karaku
Kevin Kassing
Jane Ilene Katims
Pritam Kaur
KDSM Fund
KeepCalling
James Kelley
Austin & Ashley Kelmore
Peter Kelsey
The Keough Family Foundation
Kern Charitable Fund
Jack Kessler
In memory of Charles Kettering
In honor of SJ Klein, Jr. & Jimmy Wales
Ernest L. Bruns Jr. & Sue Ann Kendall
Michael W. Kidd
Bennett Killmer & Julie Hirschfeld
Ben Kim and Jullie Myung
Donald King Jr
In honor of Harold King
Sam King
Nanette Kinkade
The Kipping Family
Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
Robyn Kirkwood
Knowledge. Collaboration. Progress. |M|
Don & Jill Knuth
Keen Yung Kong
Hal Krisbergh
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kropla
Semyon Kruglyak
KSS Architects
Pradhan Kumar
Gene Kusmiak
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
Laurence Lapeyre
Diane and John Laxmi
乐进会
Linda Lee
Yanfang Lei
Leo Model Foundation
Elizabeth and Jon Leonard
In memory of Mary Lew
Leoks Family Fund
The Leon Levy Foundation
Leon and Helen Church Family Foundation
Hedi Lieberman
Lincoln Loop
Gregg and Libby Lindahl
Michelle Linden & Cameron Cavalier
Christopher J. Lingle
lmnarchitecture.com users group
John Longres & Jeff Graham
Pete Large & Mandy Loomis
Liza Loop
Joseph Love & Laurie Reynolds
The Lowry Family
Marilyn Lucht
James & Katherine Luedke
Inspired by Robert Lukasiak
Yonghao Luo
Lyman and Kathryn Lyons
MABTOOLS
Matthew Mackall
William and Christina Maddox
In memory of Shaynon MaGee Jordan
Nathan Mak
Make-A-Website
Anup Mantri
Sara and Josh Margulis
Lars Markhus
John Marx AIA
Darrin Massena
Frank Markus
May Family Foundation
Elizabeth McGlynn
Mike McGuffin
In memory of Nadia L. Mead, Mandarin, Florida
June Medina
Data Science team at Meltwater Group
Steve and Carol Memishian
Merck Foundation
Sally Merfeld
Andrew Merritt
Sam Meshberg
Middle Road Foundation
Helen and Stephen Mildenhall
J. Michael Miller, President Sebastian Brown Productions, Inc.
Steven Miller & Pat Meyer
Ryan Mills
In honor of Trudy Milne
Craig Minassian
Dr. L. David Mirkin
Mildred & Radhe Mohan
Jamie Molaro and Ian Reasor
Moneta Asset Management
Miles Morland
In memory of Carmen and Andrew Moore
Kenneth Brandon Moore
David Moore Boulware
Philip Morson
For Sam Mott
Brynn Mow
The Mudd Foundation
Amy D. Mullen
David Mumford
Jasmine Nabi
Greg Nasmyth
N.C.W Foundation
Naida S. Wharton Foundation
Nathaniel P. and Lacy Edmundson Turner Fund of The Dallas Foundation
Nead Werx, Inc.
In memory of Robert Neale
Seth Neiman
Gregory Nelson
Donors of Network for Good
In loving memory of Elissa Newlander
Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
In memory of Marjorie Yospin Newman
Mariya Nomanbhoy
Nordic Naturals, Inc.
No Starch Press
Benjamin Novak
Offshore Servers by Pirates Hosting
Purnendu Ojha
In honor of Tom Oliver
Lennox Olney
John and Rita Ousterhout
Kurt Overley
In honor of the Oviatt Library at Cal State University, Northridge
Jhilmil Pandit & Punchhi Pandit
Gideon G. Panter, M.D.
Paradox Interactive
Dylan Parker
Gregory Partridge
Philipp Patch
In memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel
Terrance D. Paul
Lena Pepper
Ahmet Peynircioğlu
Daniel Perlman
In honor of Nick Peter
Bryce and Shonni Peterson
Duane Phillips
In memory of Andrew Phillips
Phlebotomy Careers
In memory of Donald R. Pieper
Gustavo Pierini
Rahn Pitzer
Ekaterina Podossinnikova
Dan and Gail Powell
Stephen Powelson
Vipul Ved Prakash
Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
Rob and Anna Prestezog
Thomas G. Pretlow II
Steve G. Privette
PromoPro
Marcel Przymusinski
Max J. Pucher
Lawrence P. and Teresa L. Pulliam
Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
Quality Logo Products
B S Ramamurtie
Venkat Ramdass
Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
Raymond Family Foundation
Rear Admiral Gametools
ReferenceMe
Richard and Lisa Reichman
Ax T. Remus
Nancy B. Coleman & Paul M. Resch
Stevan Rich
Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
Stephen Revilak and Julie Rioux
Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
Kevin Riggle
Green Rives
Roca Markets
Tom Rocklin, in memory of Kim Ephgrave
Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller
Ileana Roman & Sam Roman
Donald Rosenfeld
Jesse I Rosenthal
Wayne Rosing
Dennis Rossman
Richard Royce
Matt Rudary
Lorne Runge
M. Duane Rutledge
Runtime Design Automation
Rusty and Stormy
Barbara Ryan
S5 Consulting
Richard Saada
Stephen Sacks
Yacine Saidji
Kavita Saini
Paul Salaets
Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
Dr Steven G. Sanders
David Sassen
Scott Satterwhite
John and Susan Savva
In memory of Dr. Matis Scheinberg
E. Schmale
Richard Schmidt
Aaron Schrader
Josh Schripsema and Kresta Austin
Mick Seaman
In memory of Judy Sena
Jiseon Shin
Michael Shimoide
Edward and Elaine Shoben
Brett Simmers
Russel Simmons
Simply Science, LLC
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Wilmar Siqueira
www.ski-epic.com
skiprobert
Petr Skrla
Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia
Verbeck Smith
Will Smith
Sara Smollett
Anne Soder
Abraham & Marian Sofaer
The Solera Family
Jordan Sorensen
Juha Sorva
P. Clark and Margaret Souers
Joel Spiegel
Sprague Foundation
Squiddershins
David Squire
James Stanard
denise stockman
David Sunderland
G. & M. Swaminathan
Terry Tai
Steve Tak-Shu Tai & Kin-Ching Wu
Yew-Koon Tan
Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
Peter Taubkin
Tesla Government Inc.
Texas Gulf Bank
Thanksgiving Fund
Thatai Family
The Spirit of the Sixties
Rabbi Rob and Lauren Thomas
Thomas Thomas
Januaca Tjandra 张贻新 and Family
Jonathan Tobert
Stephen Todd
Kit Transue
E. Trewitt
Timothy Tully
Bobby and Natalie Tulsiani
In memory of Alan Turing
Christopher R. Turner
Rui Ueyama
Peter Ungar
Jason Ursaner
James Uttley
Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
Erik Vaaler
David L. Van Brunt
Vanessa and Bob
In Memory of Caryl Van Houten
Jason VanWees
Hal Varian
Genevieve Vaughan
David Vaughn
Vergelijkdirect.com
VMware Foundation
Vivaxis
Ernst Volgenau
Steven Wade
Ted Waitt
Chad and Kim Wagner
In memory of Jack Wahl
Robert Wares
Jim and Judy Warner
Rich Warner
丁磊
Steven Weinstein
Thomas Wentzler
Kaz Westen
The Wexler Family, Maryland
Janet White and Michael Clark
Zack White
Robert Whitehair
Endymion Wilkinson
Ms. Caryl and Janice McNeilly and Dr. Robert E. Williamson
William Wilby
James & Denise Wilson
Wil Wilstro
Josh Wiseman
In memory of Frank and Helen Wolf
The Wolff Family
Daniel Wong - Stand back, I'm going to try SCIENCE!
Worldcare Travel Insurance
Oliver Wright
Xie Wu
Dr. W. Scott Wycoff
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
Stanley Yamane
Xuejun Yang
Jeff Yass
Brian Ho Tze Yew
Alice Young
Jonathan Young
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Greg Zeschuk
Yanda Zhang & Xin Xu
Jianhong Zhou & Ben Escoto
Anonymous Donors (661)

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