Topping the list is a gift from Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings, whose net worth Forbes estimates at more than $5 billion. Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave 2 million shares of Netflix stock valued at $1.1 billion in January to their Hastings Fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
The couple started their fund in 2016 and have primarily supported education organizations, a special focus for Hastings, who taught high school math when he was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1980s and served as president of the California State Board of Education in the early 2000s.
Hastings co-founded the video streaming platform in 1995 as a DVD subscription service. It started streaming films and television series in 2007 and later began creating its own content. He stepped down as co-CEO last year and currently serves as the company’s chairman.