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Massachusetts’ $1M Donors - cbl
Posted January 4, 2012
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Gustave and Rita Hauser
By Brian Wolak
BOSTON -- Of the 513 Americans who gave gifts of $1 million or more in 2011, seven were Massachusetts residents, topped by Robert and Myra Kraft's $20 million donation to Partners HealthCare.
Another three donors (who gave gifts of $1 million or more) to Massachusetts-based institutions resided out of state. Rita and Gustave Hauser, from New York, led that group with a $40 million gift to Harvard University.
Below is a chart with data provided by The Chronicle of Philanthropy that shows gift amounts greater than $1 million where either the donor or recipient state was Massachusetts.
Footnotes are provided beneath the table.
Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., has received a pledge of $40-million from Rita E. and Gustave Hauser to innovate learning and teaching. Ms. Hauser is a lawyer and former senior partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, in New York. Mr. Hauser is the chairman and chief executive officer of Hauser Communications, in New York, a private investment and operating company in cable television, international satellite, and other electronic communications. He was also the former chairman and chief executive officer of Warner Cable Communications. The couple both graduated from Harvard Law School, she in 1958, he in 1953.
Partners HealthCare, in Boston, has received a $20-million pledge from Robert K. and Myra Kraft, to establish the National Center for Leadership and Training in Community Health. The gift will create a fellowship program focused on training community-based physician leaders. The Krafts are owners of the Kraft Group, an investment-holdings company in Foxborough, Mass., and the New England Patriots football team. They have been patients at this heath-care system.
Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston, has received $10-million from Henri A. Termeer, former chief executive officer of Genzyme Corp., a pharmaceutical company in Cambridge, Mass., that makes drugs to treat rare genetic disorders, to establish and name the Center for Targeted Therapies, which will focus on treating cancer.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: $5-million from Ronald Druker, president of the Druker Company, a real-estate firm, for its new contemporary-art wing.
U. of Massachusetts at Lowell: approximately $5-million pledge from Robert and Donna Manning for a new College of Management building, the School of Business, and its nursing program. Mr. Manning is the chairman and chief executive officer of MFS Investments, in Boston. The couple both graduated from the university.
U. of Rochester Simon Graduate School of Business (N.Y.): $3-million pledge from Mark S. and Carolyn C. Ain for entrepreneurship education and scholarships. Mr. Ain is the co-founder and chairman of Kronos Incorporated, a workforce-management company in Chelmsford, Mass. He earned a master's degree in business administration from Simon in 1967.
Boston U.: $3-million from Arthur Marciano for dining facilities at a new student center. Mr. Marciano is the former owner of Electric Razors Inc., which he sold in 2000. He received a bachelor's degree in public communication from the university in 1951.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.): $2.5-million pledge from Robert and Martha Berman Lipp to endow a senior curator position. Mr. Lipp is a senior adviser at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Ms. Lipp is a member of Clark's Board of Trustees.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, Mass.): $2-million pledge from Sylvia Marx and Leonard Marx Jr. to endow the position of director of collections and exhibitions. Mr. Marx is the former chairman and chief executive officer of Merchants' National Properties, a real-estate development and management firm in New York.
Swampscott Public Schools (Mass.): $1-million pledge from Mark Gelfand, a co-founder of Intex Solutions, in Needham, Mass., to improve its science, technology, engineering, and mathematics program by hiring teachers, providing professional development, and purchasing equipment.
Pennsylvania State U. at U. Park: $1-million gift from John Gilmartin, retired chief executive officer of Millipore Corp., a provider of products and services to bioscience research and biopharmaceutical manufacturing companies, based in Billerica, Mass., to provide scholarships for students in the College of Education. He graduated from the university in 1965 with a bachelor's degree in finance.
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