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#Philanthropy

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People (12)

  • Bill Gates Bill Gates is the Microsoft co-founder who met Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly from 2011 to 2014 over a proposed JPMorgan charitable fund, and whom Epstein later pressed over a relationship with a Russian bridge player.
  • Cari Tuna Former Wall Street Journal reporter, wife of Dustin Moskovitz, president of Good Ventures and chair of Coefficient Giving, formerly Open Philanthropy, and a director or major donor in its web of linked entities.
  • Debra Black Wife of Leon Black, trustee in the Black family's 2007 restructuring, co-donor of Harvard and Arizona State gifts that Jeffrey Epstein arranged, and holder of accounts that wired Epstein's fees.
  • Eric Schmidt Eric Schmidt is the former Google chief executive turned billionaire investor and architect of US national-security artificial-intelligence policy, who chaired two Pentagon advisory bodies while privately funding the AI and defense startups those bodies promoted.
  • Eugene Jhong Eugene Jhong holds Harvard A.B. and J.D. degrees and a Stanford master's in computer science, and is listed on the Galileo Project's Philanthropic Advisory Board.
  • Frank Laukien Frank Laukien has been chairman, president and chief executive of Bruker Corporation since February 1991 and is its largest stockholder; he co-founded the Galileo Project with Avi Loeb in 2021.
  • Igor Kurganov Russian-born former professional poker player who advised Elon Musk on charitable giving during the pandemic, was the subject of a reported FBI preliminary inquiry, and left Musk's foundation in May 2022.
  • John D. Rockefeller Jr. Son of the Standard Oil founder, Colorado Fuel and Iron director during the 1913 to 1914 strike, Rockefeller Foundation chairman, and largest Chase National Bank stockholder who financed Jackson Hole and the United Nations site.
  • Leon Botstein Conductor and president of Bard College from 1975 to 2026 who courted Jeffrey Epstein as a donor after his conviction, took 150,000 dollars from Epstein's charity, and retired after a 2026 review.
  • Marc Gunther Former Fortune senior writer who covers foundations, effective altruism and psychedelics, and whose 2018 Stanford Social Innovation Review article mapped the entities around Cari Tuna and Open Philanthropy.
  • Rob Reich Stanford political scientist who sat on the GiveWell board from 2013, wrote in 2015 that effective altruists are technocrats, and was senior advisor to the U.S. AI Safety Institute in 2024 and 2025.
  • Rockefeller family American family whose Standard Oil fortune endowed the Rockefeller Foundation and Chase, and whose sons Nelson and David ran wartime propaganda, covert-action coordination and hemispheric banking.

Organizations (17)

  • Black Family Foundation Private foundation of Leon and Debra Black, established in 1997 with Jeffrey Epstein among its initial directors, which listed him on its tax returns until 2012 and funded Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics.
  • Effective Ventures Effective Ventures was the umbrella charity that legally housed the central effective-altruism organizations, took roughly 27 million dollars from Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX in 2022, repaid all of it to the FTX bankruptcy estate in a 2024 settlement, and then resolved to spin out all of its projects into independent bodies.
  • GiveWell GiveWell is a charity evaluator founded in 2007 by former Bridgewater Associates analysts Holden Karnofsky and Elie Hassenfeld, whose cost-effectiveness rankings of global-health charities and whose GiveWell Labs project, funded by Good Ventures, became Open Philanthropy.
  • Giving What We Can Pledge society launched at Oxford in November 2009 by Toby Ord and William MacAskill, later housed under Effective Ventures, which repaid 26.8 million dollars of FTX money in 2024.
  • Good Ventures Private foundation of Dustin Moskovitz and Cari Tuna, founded in 2011 within a web of LLCs and donor-advised funds, which built GiveWell Labs into Open Philanthropy and held about 10 billion dollars in 2025.
  • Gratitude America Jeffrey Epstein's St. Thomas private foundation, recognized by the IRS in 2012, which took 10 million dollars from Leon Black in 2015 and paid Bard president Leon Botstein 150,000 dollars in 2016.
  • John Templeton Foundation Foundation established in 1987 by Sir John Templeton that granted Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics 1.5 million dollars in 2015 after receiving a false Jeffrey Epstein matching-funds letter.
  • Mega Group Private circle of wealthy Jewish American businessmen founded in 1991 by Leslie Wexner and Charles Bronfman as the Study Group, disclosed by The Wall Street Journal in 1998.
  • Mellon Family The Mellon family of Pittsburgh includes Andrew W. Mellon, Paul Mellon, Richard Mellon Scaife and Christopher Mellon, the Senate and Pentagon intelligence staffer who later became a UAP disclosure figure.
  • Omidyar Network Philanthropic investment firm of The Omidyar Group, run through an LLC and a private foundation, which bought Anthropic shares from the FTX estate in 2024 and funds AI-policy groups including Americans for Responsible Innovation.
  • Rockefeller Brothers Fund Foundation established in 1940 by the five Rockefeller brothers whose Special Studies Project of 1956-61, directed by Henry Kissinger until 1958, produced the Rockefeller Panel Reports on security, economy and foreign policy.
  • Rockefeller Foundation The Rockefeller Foundation, endowed from the Standard Oil fortune in 1913, ran public-health and agricultural campaigns across Latin America that eased the social costs of American corporate expansion, supplied a pipeline of trustees into the State Department, and in 1943 funded the McGill psychiatric institute where CIA depatterning experiments were later conducted.
  • Schmidt Futures Schmidt Futures is the philanthropic venture Eric and Wendy Schmidt launched in 2017 to fund science and technology talent, which paid the salaries of White House science staff before consolidating its core programs into Schmidt Sciences in 2024.
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review Quarterly on philanthropy and nonprofits launched in spring 2003 by the Center for Social Innovation at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, a Hewlett Foundation grantee.
  • University of the Virgin Islands Public land-grant university of the U.S. Virgin Islands whose research park declined Jeffrey Epstein around 2012, while its president kept soliciting him for a medical-school gift and its classes enrolled women connected to him.
  • Wexner Foundation Ohio private foundation of the Wexner family, formed in 1973, on whose board Jeffrey Epstein sat from 1992 to 2007 and which paid Ehud Barak 2.3 million dollars between 2004 and 2006.
  • World Transhumanist Association Transhumanist membership organization founded in 1998 by Nick Bostrom and David Pearce, later renamed Humanity+, which received Jeffrey Epstein money in 2010 and from his Gratitude America in 2018.