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6. LARRY PAGE 9. SERGEY BRIN
$53.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: * $52.4 BILLION S
SOURCE: GOOGLE SELF-MADE SCORE: (
AGE: 45 RESIDENCE: PALO ALTO, CA SOURCE: GOOGLE
AGE: 45
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
RESIDENCE: LOS ALTOS, CA
Page cofounded search engine PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Google with Sergey Brin (No. 9) in
September 1998, with a mission to Brin, who lived in the Sovi-
organize the world’s information. et Union until he was 6, has
Twenty years later, Google’s parent said that being in a country
company, Alphabet (Page is CEO), that curbed free speech influ-
announced 7 guiding principles (for enced how he and Page would
example, avoid reinforcing unfair run Google. This led Google
bias) in June to chart the company’s to shut down its China-based
move into artificial intelligence and search engine in 2010 after it
other advanced technologies. His learned the government was
Carl Victor Page Memorial Founda- spying on the Gmail accounts
tion, named after his late father, has of human rights activists
nearly $2 billion in assets; in the last there. Now Brin, as Alphabet’s
5 years, the foundation shifted $365 president, is back in the hot
million to donor-advised funds, seat after leaked documents
making it impossible to track details reportedly showed its engi-
on most of his giving. Among his neers working on a censored
few direct charitable donations were 7. CHARLES KOCH version of Google for China.
$15 million in emergency funds to Brin has given over $1 billion
combat Ebola in 2014 and roughly $53.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: % to his family foundations.
$3 million to Shoo the Flu, a flu vac- SOURCE: KOCH INDUSTRIES
AGE: 82 RESIDENCE: WICHITA, KS
cine program for students in public 10. MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
schools in Oakland. PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
His Koch Industries, the second-largest private $51.8 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: *
company in the U.S., with $100 billion in sales, is SOURCE: BLOOMBERG LP
AGE: 76 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
looking to Silicon Valley for growth. In Novem-
ber the industrial conglomerate launched Koch PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
Disruptive Technologies, a venture arm headed by The cofounder of financial information and media giant Bloom-
Koch’s son Chase. The subsidiary led a $125 mil- berg LP has given away $6 billion. His foundation is spending
lion fund raising round in May for cloud-comput- $200 million to support U.S. mayors and cities, more than $100
ing startup Mesosphere. Koch, who took over the million to reduce coal usage globally and millions more on glob-
family business after his father’s death in 1967, has al health and education. A Democrat turned Republican turned
given more than $1 billion to charity, with a focus independent, Bloomberg served as mayor of New York City
on education and criminal justice reform. Some of for 3 terms. He published an op-ed in June stating that he will
the nonprofits he supports include Hudson Link, support the Democrats in 2018. In September, he announced
which offers college prep courses and degrees to he would be spending a record amount of money on behalf of
prison inmates, and the Phoenix, which uses ac- women candidates.
tivities like hiking, yoga and CrossFit to help peo-
ple who are recovering from alcohol or substance
abuse stay sober.

7. DAVID KOCH
$53.5 BILLION S SELF-MADE SCORE: %
SOURCE: KOCH INDUSTRIES
AGE: 78 RESIDENCE: NEW YORK CITY
PHILANTHROPY SCORE:
The former executive vice president of
Koch Industries stepped down from
the company in July. Koch also retired
from his position at the Seminar Net-
work—founded by brother Charles and
known for its activities in politics—cit-
ing health concerns. The prostate can-
cer survivor pledged $100 million to
New York-Presbyterian Hospital for a
new ambulatory center, which opened
in April; his $150 million pledge to Me-
morial Sloan Kettering will result in a
cancer outpatient facility in 2019. His
$1.2 billion lifetime giving also includes
about $185 million to his alma mater,
MIT, and $110 million to New York’s
Lincoln Center.
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