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179. BERT BEVERIDGE 1.68 million acres of timberland
in California and 291,000 acres in
$4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * Washington. His sons George and
SOURCE: VODKA Mark run Sierra Pacific as presi-
AGE: 56 RESIDENCE: AUSTIN, TX
dent and chairman. When Emmer-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. son’s kids gave Oregon State Uni-
The founder of Tito’s Handmade Vod- versity $6 million to build a forest-
ka—Beveridge’s nickname is Tito— ry lab and name it in his honor, he
started his company in 1997 using quipped: “That’ll take you all the
$88,000 racked up on credit cards. He way to the poor farm. Better not
sold an estimated 60 million-plus bot- do it very often.”
tles of vodka last year, up from an es-
timated 45 million in 2016. Tito’s says
it donates 100% of net proceeds for all 179. JEFFERY
items purchased in its online store to HILDEBRAND
nonprofits.
$4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
SOURCE: OIL
179. NEIL BLUHM AGE: 59 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
$4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: )
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE This past year his Hilcorp solidi-
AGE: 80 RESIDENCE: CHICAGO fied its position as the biggest pri-
179. DAN FRIEDKIN
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: vately owned oil and gas company
$4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: $ The graduate of Northwestern’s law in America, with $4.5 billion of
SOURCE: TOYOTA DEALERSHIPS acquisitions in old natural gas
AGE: 53 RESIDENCE: HOUSTON school has given $25 million to the fields and pipelines in the Four
school and $10 million to North-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: Corners region of New Mexico.
western Medicine, which named a
Friedkin’s philanthropy has taken him around the globe: In Tanzania his cardiovascular institute after him. In Alaska, off the North Slope in
conservation fund is responsible for preserving 6.1 million acres of pro- In June he pledged an addition- the Beaufort Sea, Hilcorp plans
tected wildlife areas. In South Carolina, he and Robert McNair (No. 200) al $25 million to Northwestern to build a gravel island to develop
run a golf club that helps kids who aspire to play golf in college but lack the Medicine to create a center for us- the Liberty field, which, if all goes
means to do so. A pilot who has flown search missions, he also helps fund ing artificial intelligence to treat well, could pump 60,000 barrels
Project Recover, which looks for lost aircraft, ships and associated MIA sol- cardiovascular disease. Bluhm, per day by 2022.
diers from World War II. Friedkin’s fortune stems from Gulf States Toyota, whose father abandoned the fami-
the $9 billion (sales) car distributor built by his father, Thomas (d. 2017). ly when he was 13, became a part- 179. MARIAN ILITCH
He owns Gulf States and has diversified into hotels and a film studio. ner in a law firm but quit to start a
real estate business with his college $4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: (
SOURCE: LITTLE CAESARS PIZZA
roommate. Today he owns mar- AGE: 85
177. JACK square feet of office space and quee properties in downtown Chi- RESIDENCE: BINGHAM FARMS, MI
cago, like 900 North Michigan,
12,000 residential units across five

PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
DANGERMOND states. His daughter and heir appar- plus casinos across the Midwest. Little Caesars, the pizza chain co-
ent, Natalia Ostensen, 37, is execu- He is also a minority owner of the
$4.1 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * founded by Ilitch and her late
SOURCE: MAPPING SOFTWARE tive vice president in the firm. She Chicago Bulls and the Chicago husband, Mike, is nearing com-
AGE: 73 RESIDENCE: REDLANDS, CA is also the owner of Andrei’s Res- White Sox. pletion of its $150 million, 9-sto-
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: taurant in Irvine, California, named ry headquarters in downtown De-
Jack and his wife, Laura, gave after her late brother, who died in 179. RICK CARUSO troit, complete with pizza-shaped
$165 million in December to a car accident in 2005. Through a windows. It’s the latest feature in
the Nature Conservancy to pur- memorial fund in his name, the $4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: & the family’s $1 billion-plus Dis-
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
chase and permanently protect family supports programs to help AGE: 59 trict Detroit development project,
24,000 acres of undeveloped coast- those affected by blindness and vi- RESIDENCE: BRENTWOOD, CA which includes Little Caesars Are-
al habitat near Point Conception, sion impairment. PHILANTHROPY SCORE: na and a new Mike Ilitch School
California; it will be renamed the Owner of The Grove, a Los Angeles of Business at Wayne State Uni-
Jack and Laura Dangermond Pre- 179. BEN ASHKENAZY shopping mall that gets more visi- versity. Little Caesars sells more
serve. Jack founded digital-map- tors per year than Disneyland. than $4 billion worth of pizza
ping software company Esri in $4 BILLION WX SELF-MADE SCORE: * worldwide.
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE
1969 while he was attending Har- AGE: 49 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
vard. The mapping technology is 179. ARCHIE ALDIS “RED” 179. JAMES LEPRINO
used in 137 countries by business- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: EMMERSON & FAMILY
es and governments alike, and pro- The real estate titan purchased Bos- $4 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
vides the digital infrastructure for ton’s Fairmont Copley Plaza hotel in $4 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: ( SOURCE: MOZZARELLA CHEESE
AGE: 80
FEMA’s Hurricane Incident online December. In July he sold his minori- SOURCE: TIMBERLAND, LUMBER RESIDENCE: INDIAN HILLS, CO
MILLS
dashboard. ty stake in New York’s Plaza Hotel. The AGE: 89 RESIDENCE: REDDING, CA
Israeli native, who made his name in- PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A.
vesting in properties such as Union PHILANTHROPY SCORE: His $3.5 billion (est. sales) Lep-
177. IGOR OLENICOFF Station in Washington, D.C., owns or Emmerson cofounded and owns rino Foods is the world’s largest
co-owns more than 100 properties timber outfit Sierra Pacific In- maker of mozzarella, supplying
$4.1 BILLION T SELF-MADE SCORE: )
SOURCE: REAL ESTATE through his Ashkenazy Acquisition. dustries. It opened a $100 million cheese to Domino’s, Papa John’s
AGE: 76 He bought his first building at age 17 sawmill, among the nation’s larg- and Pizza Hut. It also makes
RESIDENCE: LIGHTHOUSE POINT, FL after he went to a Bronx shopping cen- est, in western Washington State whey protein, used in protein
PHILANTHROPY SCORE: N.A. ter to check out a site for a fast-food in 2016. He is also the country’s bars, Yoplait yogurt and Pillsbury
Olenicoff owns some 8 million restaurant. third-largest landowner, with Toaster Strudel. SPLASH NEWS/NEWSCOM
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