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[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

[–]Jesus 15 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 0 fun16 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Donors:

Lilly Endowment, Inc. Robert Frederick Smith The Oprah Winfrey Charitable Foundation

Capstone Donors ($10 million and above)

The Atlantic Philanthropies Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation The Rhimes Family Foundation David M. Rubenstein

Cornerstone Donors ($5 million and above)

3M American Express The Boeing Company Ford Foundation GE Robert L. Johnson Michael Jordan and Family

Kaiser Permanente The Rockefeller Foundation Smithsonian Channel Target UnitedHealth Group Walmart

21st Century Fox and News Corp Bank of America Carnival Corporation* James I. Cash, Jr. and the Walton Family Foundation The Walt Disney Company GlaxoSmithKline Johnson & Johnson* W.K. Kellogg Foundation Kovler Foundation John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Medtronic Foundation The Moore Charitable Foundation/    Louis Moore Bacon Stavros Niarchos Foundation NIKE Foundation Northrop Grumman* Prudential Earl W. and Amanda Stafford Patty Stonesifer and Michael Kinsley Time Warner Foundation Toyota United Technologies Corporation Anthony and Beatrice Welters and the Vincent Wilkinson Foundation

AARP Rodney and Michelle Adkins Aetna Foundation, Inc. Aflac Alfred Street Baptist Church Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated Altria Group Apple* AT&T, Inc. BET Networks/Viacom* Jeff & MacKenzie Bezos BlackRock Bloomberg Philanthropies Dr. and Mrs. T.B. Boyd III and Family/    The R.H. Boyd Company Brown Capital Management, LLC Kobe and Vanessa Bryant Family Foundation The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Maverick Carter* Caterpillar Kenneth I. and Kathryn Chenault The Coca-Cola Foundation Dr. N. Anthony, Robyn, Andrew, Taylor and Evan    Coles Michael and Susan Dell Dignity Health The Dow Chemical Company* Andreas C. Dracopoulos Sandra J. Evers-Manly* The Executive Leadership Council Exelon Foundation* FedEx Corporation Roger W. Ferguson, Jr. and Annette L. Nazareth Ford Motor Company Fund Andréa and Kenneth Frazier Patricia and Phillip Frost William J. and Brenda L. Galloway & Family David Geffen Foundation General Mills Foundation General Motors James T. George and Juliette J. George Goldman Sachs Google.org* The Hartford Mellody Hobson and George Lucas Cathy Hughes and Alfred C. Liggins III Hyundai IBM Intel Corporation* LaTanya, Zoe and Samuel L. Jackson LeBron James Family Foundation* Earvin and Cookie Johnson and Family James A. Johnson   pending documentation Johnson Publishing Company JPMorgan Chase & Co. Robert and Arlene Kogod Debra L. Lee, Quinn S. Coleman, Ava L. Coleman Dale L. LeFebvre Loida Nicolas Lewis, Leslie Lewis    and Christina Lewis Halpern The Reginald F. Lewis Foundation, Inc. The Links Foundation, Incorporated Lowe's Companies, Inc. Victor and Thaderine MacFarlane and Family The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation McDonald’s Corporation Rose A. McElrath-Slade Mattie McFadden-Lawson, Michael A.    Lawson, Esq., and Family James L. and Juliette McNeil MetLife Foundation MGM Resorts International Microsoft Corporation Michael and Lori Milken Mark & Brenda Moore and Family Morgan Stanley National Basketball Association National Basketball Players Association National Football League Nationwide Foundation New York Life Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated The David and Lucile Packard Foundation Richard D. and Laura A. Parsons The PepsiCo Foundation Tyler Perry William F. Pickard Family Group Colin and Alma Powell J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation Franklin D. Raines and Denise Grant Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Deborah Sara Santana Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity/Boulé Foundation William and Tish Slattery & the Slattery    Family Foundation Gerald B. and Anita Smith Family Southern Company Charitable Foundation, Inc. Stephen J. Stoute Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation* Reginald Van Lee Verizon Craig and Diane Welburn and Family Wells Fargo Robert L. Wright Xerox Foundation

Oh wow

https://nmaahc.si.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/nmaahc_founding_donors_list_-_as_of_9-13-16_0.pdf

Museum Council Kenneth Irvine Chenault Chair Chairman and managing director, General Catalyst   N. Anthony Coles Vice Chair of Advancement Committee Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Cerevel Therapeutics   Franklin D. Raines Vice Chair of Finance Committee Former chairman and CEO, Fannie Mae; former director, U.S. Office of Management and Budget   Ruth J. Simmons Vice Chair of Nominating and Governance Committee President, Prairie View A&M University; President Emerita, Brown University   Elizabeth Alexander President, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation   Rosalind Brewer COO and Group President, Starbucks   Lonnie G. Bunch, III Secretary, Smithsonian Institution   Laura W. Bush Former first lady of the United States of America   Maverick Carter Principal, LRMR Ventures   James I. Cash, Jr. James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration Emeritus, Harvard Business School   Kenneth L. Coleman Chairman, Saama Technologies, Inc.   Edith Cooper Board Director, Etsy, Slack, and EQT Partners   Kenneth C. Frazier President and CEO, Merck & Co.   LaTanya R. Jackson Actress, director, and producer       Linda Johnson Rice Chairman, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc.   Robert L. Johnson Founder and Chairman, The RLJ Companies; founder and former Chairman, Black Entertainment Television, Inc.   Quincy D. Jones Producer and CEO, Quincy Jones Productions, Inc.   Ted Leonsis Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Monumental Sports   Doris Matsui (D-CA 6th District) Member, United States House of Representatives   Brian T. Moynihan Chairman and CEO, Bank of America Charles Edwards Phillips, Jr. CEO, Infor   General Colin L. Powell Retired General, United States Army; former Secretary of State, United States of America   Earl W. Stafford CEO, The Wentworth Group, LLC   H. Patrick Swygert President emeritus, Howard University   Darren Walker President, Ford Foundation   Anthony Welters Executive chairman, BlackIvy Group, LLC   Oprah Winfrey Chairman and CEO, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network and Harpo, Inc.    Robert L. Wright Co-chairman emeritus, SENTEL Corporation   Emeritus Members Richard Dean Parsons

[–]magnora7 17 insightful - 2 fun17 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

So literally Oprah and Bill Gates made this happen. Whew. There should be a limit to the number of organizations that a person can donate to. These billionaires have their fingers in too many pies.

[–]EATADlCK 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I see something else than billionaires here.