Most Generous Celebrities

Oprah Winfrey tops a list of the 30 most generous celebrities, compiled by The Giving Back Fund and published in the Sept. 14 issue of Parade. Here is a list of the top 14 most generous celebs. 1. Oprah Winfrey — $50,200,000 The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah's Angel Network: education, health care, and advocacy for women and children worldwide 2. Herb Alpert — $13,000,000 The Herb Alpert Foundation: music education, including the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music 3. Barbra Streisand — $11,000,000 The Streisand Foundation: the environment, women's issues, civil rights, AIDS research and advocacy 4. Paul Newman — $10,005,000 Scholarship for Kenyon College, his alma mater, in Gambier, Ohio. 5. Mel Gibson — $9,899,654 Holy Family Church in Malibu, Calif. 6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — $8,400,000 The Jolie-Pitt Foundation: New Orleans reconstruction, refugee aid, cross-cultural understanding 7. (tie) Lance Armstrong — $5,000,000 The Lance Armstrong Foundation: cancer research, education and advocacy 7. (tie) Michael Jordan — $5,000,000 Hales Franciscan High School, a historically black all-boys school in Chicago 7. (tie) Eric Lindros — $5,000,000 London Health Sciences Centre, a Canadian hospital where the former hockey player was treated 10. Rush Limbaugh — $4,200,000 Financial assistance to the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty 11. Rosie O'Donnell — $3,515,512 Early education centers and other child-related programs, including the RBKids Initiative. 12. Richard Jefferson — $3,500,000 University of Arizona for a new basketball/volleyball facility 13. Jerry Seinfeld — $3,000,000 The Seinfeld Family Foundation 14. (tie) Hugh Hefner — $2,000,000 The University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts



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