โ The world's richest person made the single-largest charitable contribution in 2020, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of top donations, a $10 billion gift that is intended to help fight climate change.
Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos, whose โreal-timeโ worth Forbes magazine estimates at roughly $188 billion, used the contribution to launch his Bezos Earth Fund.
According to the left-leaning Americans for Tax Fairness and the Institute for Policy Studies, from March 18 through Dec. 7, 2020, Bezos' wealth surged by 63%, from $113 billion to $184 billion.
Bezos and the Zuckerbergs made up the next spots on last year's top 10 list, with $100 million donations โ Bezos for Feeding America to aid food banks across the country and the Zuckerbergs to the same election security group.
In February, the Chronicle will publish its list of the 50 biggest donors, which counts cumulative donations, not individual gifts.