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ed about $315,000 to Republican 153. AUSTEN CARGILL II services for immigrants. He also co-
causes; Dirk and his wife, Natasha, founded the Everglades Foundation,
donated more than $365,000 to $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! to help conserve Florida’s Everglades.
Democratic super PACs, including SOURCE: CARGILL
AGE: 67 RESIDENCE: LIVINGSTON, MT
progressive organization Swing Left.
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. 153. TERRENCE PEGULA
150. DAVID FILO $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: (
SOURCE: NATURAL GAS
153. JAMES CARGILL II AGE: 67 RESIDENCE: BOCA RATON, FL
$4.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: *
SOURCE: YAHOO $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
AGE: 52 RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CA SOURCE: CARGILL
AGE: 69 RESIDENCE: BIRCHWOOD, WI The perennially disappointing Buffalo
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Bills are the least valuable team in the
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
In June 2017, Verizon bought Yahoo’s NFL; the franchise is worth just $1.6
core operating business for $4.5 bil- billion, less than half of the league’s
lion. The other assets—its 15% piece 153. MARIANNE most valuable club (the Dallas Cow-
of Alibaba and 35% of Yahoo Japan— LIEBMANN boys). Pegula bought the NHL’s Buffa-
morphed into Altaba, in which Filo lo Sabres in 2011 and added the Bills
has a nearly 7% stake. He cofounded $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! 3 years later. The Penn State alumnus
153. DAGMAR DOLBY Yahoo with Jerry Yang in 1994. He SOURCE: CARGILL donated $102 million to the universi-
AGE: 65 RESIDENCE: BOZEMAN, MT
& FAMILY and his wife’s Yellow Chair Founda- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: ty to launch a NCAA Division I hock-
tion donated $30 million to his alma ey program.
$4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ! mater, Tulane University, for engi- These three siblings each inherit-
SOURCE: DOLBY LABORATORIES ed an estimated 7% stake in Cargill,
AGE: 77 neering and computer science schol- 153. GARY ROLLINS
RESIDENCE: SAN FRANCISCO arships. More recently, they have giv- the global agribusiness giant. Aus-
en $3.9 million to the American Civ- ten started working at the compa- $4.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: #
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
il Liberties Union and $1.6 million to ny in 1984 and retired as vice presi- SOURCE: PEST CONTROL
Dolby has given more than $250 the Global Fund for Women. dent in 2001. AGE: 74 RESIDENCE: ATLANTA
million to her family foundations, PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
which support causes like Alzheim- Rollins is CEO of America’s biggest
er’s research and drug develop- 150. TAMARA 153. TILMAN FERTITTA pest-control conglomerate, Rollins
ment. Her husband, Ray, the found- GUSTAVSON $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ( Inc. His older brother, Randall (No.
er of audio-equipment maker Dol- SOURCE: HOUSTON ROCKETS, 163), chairs the board. It has 19 sub-
by Laboratories, suffered from the $4.6 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: @ ENTERTAINMENT sidiaries (the best-known is Orkin).
disease before his death in 2013. SOURCE: SELF-STORAGE AGE: 61 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
AGE: 56 RESIDENCE: MALIBU, CA
Dolby pledged about $110 million PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
in December 2017 to Cambridge PHILANTHROPY SCORE: His Post Oak development in Hous- 153. WALTER SCOTT
University to fund the new home Gustavson is the largest individu- ton opened in March with a 250- $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: &
for its world-renowned physics re- al shareholder of Public Storage, the room hotel, a conference center, 6 res- SOURCE: UTILITIES, TELECOM
search center, Cavendish Laborato- world’s largest self-storage compa- taurants and bars, and a Rolls-Royce AGE: 87 RESIDENCE: OMAHA
ry—where Ray got his Ph.D.—and ny, and American Homes 4 Rent dealership. He also owns restaurant PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
name it the Ray Dolby Centre. (both of which her father, B. Wayne and entertainment group Landry’s, Warren Buffett’s (No. 3) friend and a
Hughes, No. 280, cofounded). She the Golden Nugget casinos and the
began working at Public Storage in Houston Rockets. Fertitta bought the fellow Omaha native, Scott ran con-
143. DANIEL ZIFF 1983 and rose to vice president be- basketball team last year for $2.2 bil- struction giant Peter Kiewit for 19
fore leaving in 2003. years before retiring in 1998. Most
$4.8 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: $ lion, the highest price paid for an NBA of his fortune comes from his near-
SOURCE: INVESTMENTS franchise. In 2016 he and his wife, ly 9% stake in utilities company Berk-
AGE: 46 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY Paige, gave $20 million to the Univer-
150. JEFF SKOLL shire Hathaway Energy, which is 90%
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: sity of Houston, where Fertitta is on owned by Berkshire Hathaway. Today
$4.6 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: ^ the board of regents.
SOURCE: EBAY Scott devotes most of his time to his
143. DIRK ZIFF AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CA foundation, which supports Omaha-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: 153. PAUL TUDOR based causes.
$4.8 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: $
SOURCE: INVESTMENTS Early in 2018, Skoll’s Participant JONES II
AGE: 54 Media and Mark Cuban’s (No. 153. RUSS WEINER
RESIDENCE: NORTH PALM BEACH, FL $4.5 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: &
190) Magnolia Pictures picked up
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: the worldwide rights to RBG, an SOURCE: HEDGE FUNDS $4.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
AGE: 64 RESIDENCE: PALM BEACH, FL
SOURCE: ENERGY DRINKS
award-winning documentary film PHILANTHROPY SCORE: AGE: 48 RESIDENCE: DELRAY BEACH, FL
143. ROBERT ZIFF about U.S. Supreme Court justice The famed macro trader is now work- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg; coproducer
$4.8 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: $ CNN aired the film over Labor Day ing to get people to invest more mind- Weiner rolled out an all-natu-
SOURCE: INVESTMENTS fully. JUST Capital, which Jones co- ral, non-GMO energy drink called
AGE: 52 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY weekend. Skoll, who built his for- founded, has partnered with Goldman Yachak Organic in October 2017.
tune as the first full-time employ-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Sachs to release an ETF that tracks He says he plans to donate profits to
ee and the first president of auction
The brothers inherited their father website eBay, has donated near- companies on factors such as work- wildlife conservation. When his for-
William Ziff Jr.’s publishing fortune ly $1.3 billion to his Skoll Foun- er welfare, customer service and en- mer boss, Skyy Vodka founder Mau-
in 2006 and put it into their hedge dation and to the Skoll Fund, a re- vironmental impact. The fund began rice Kanbar, rejected his idea for an
funds, which operate quietly as Ziff lated charitable fund. The founda- trading in June. Jones, who started a energy drink, Weiner used a $50,000
Capital Partners and Ziff Broth- tion supports social entrepreneurs hedge fund at age 26, set up the Rob- mortgage on his condo in Sausalito,
ers Investments. Though they may who work to tackle poverty and in Hood Foundation shortly after the California, to launch Rockstar ener-
be family, they don’t agree on poli- improve education, among other Black Monday stock market crash of gy drinks in 2001. Last year, Rock-
tics: Since 2017, Robert has donat- knotty issues. 1987; the anti-poverty nonprofit funds star sold an estimated $745 million PATRICK FALLON/REUTERS
everything from food pantries to legal worth of its fizzy drinks.
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