Benefactors

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Gracias. Merci. Shukran. 谢谢你. In every language, it means thank you. Thank you for sustaining Wikimedia and benefiting readers around the world. We are proud to list your name on this page, which celebrates those who gave at a very high level. Thank you again. We are honored to have you with us.

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Legacy Gifts

Your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation ensures that Wikipedia is here for the next generation. Learn more about Legacy Gifts.

This page reflects gifts received as of July 1, 2013. See Benefactors 2013-2014.

Major Benefactors

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Laura and John Arnold
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
Brin Wojcicki Foundation
Cards Against Humanity
Craigslist Charitable Fund
Google Matching Gifts
Mary Graham
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Microsoft Matching Gifts Program
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Stanton Foundation
Anonymous Donors (6)

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

John E. Abele
Apple Matching Gift Program
Caulkins Family Foundation
Charina Endowment Fund
Dalio Foundation, Inc.
Goldman, Sachs & Co. Matching Gifts Program
Keel Foundation
The Lehoczky Escobar Family
MathWorks
Miller-Wehrle Family Foundation
Newsmax Media
Kimberly Sweidy & Raymie Stata
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Two Sigma Investments, LLC
Yardi Systems
Anonymous Donors (17)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

The Bitcoin Community
The Blackburn Family Fund
Tor Braham
The Brightwater Fund – Gloria Jarecki, President
Chris Brown
Annette Campbell-White
Anurag Acharya and Madhuri Chattopadhyay
Karen & F.T. Chong
CNCRepair.com
Liam Connell
John Caulkins
David Dacus
Carl de Marcken
William Deramus
Ranae DeSantis
Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
Jennifer Ann Eckstine
Douglas Ferguson
Michael Fine (Mediander)
Fund for Second Nature
Graphics Press, LLC
The Gray Family (Calgary, AB)
Holly Gray
Michael and Andrea Hale
David Marin and Amanda Halpin
Michael Hollihan-Sarmiento
John Horne
Ying-Sheng Hu
Interlude
In memory of Jizo
Steve Kass
Takashi & Saori Kousaka
Level 39
Yael Taqqu and Jeremy Levine
Nicholas Logothetis
In memory of the late Colin Marks
Bill and Marilyn McCune
Joseph K. McLaughlin
Metz Family Foundation
Roberto Mignone
Sheila Mossman
Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro
Anton Murashov
Newgen KnowledgeWorks
The Nia/Zahiri Foundation
Open Data Institute
Jim Pacha
Shyam Patel
P&C Collins Fund at the Bessemer Trust
Yana and Stephen Peel
Post Investment Group
Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
Rear Admiral Gametools
RetailMeNot
Rick and Susan Goings Foundation
Philip Rogers
Bow Ruggeri
Ruth and Peter Metz Family Foundation.
Richard Saada
In memory of Jerry Salo
Scooter Software
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
Silverleaf Foundation
Mark Heising and Liz Simons
Stack Exchange
TheLadders
The Montgomery Family Foundation
Tungare Manohar Family Foundation
Tupperware
Evelien & Maarten Vaandrager
Hal Varian
Donors of YourCause
David and Monica Zwirner
Anonymous Donors (112)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

May-Ling Gonzales and Leith Abdulla
ACON Laboratories, Inc.
AIG Matching Grants Program
Alex Aizman
David R. Albrecht
In memory of Tim Allen
Sean Rhea and Lucy Almers
Fatima Al-Sabah
America's Charities
American Express Company Employee Giving Program
Amgen Foundation
Professor T. R. Anantharaman of Kerala, India
The Anderson Family
Chris Anderson
Dalibor Antonić
Greg Apodaca
Etienne Ardant
Ansel, Alison & Alden Ashby
Josh Schripsema and Kresta Austin
Jesse Ausubel
Prabhu Balasubramanian
R & A Bandela
Andrew Barcus and Cheryl True
Baseline Telecom, Inc
Douglas Bates and Mini Pathria
Kathy Bates
Peter Baumann
Ben Bayer
Jack Baylis
Beach Audio
Heather Bendler
William Benter
Jayashree and K.S. Bhaskar
Butch Biendara
Big Wheel Brigade
Graeme Birchall
BluePromoCode
Blue Sun Fund
Boeing Co. Matching Gifts
David Bohnett Foundation
Beverly & George Bond
James S. Bostwick
Antoine Boulin
BMT Micro, Inc.
Joseph C. & Carol M. Brandt
Brickell Analytics LLC
David Bydeley
In honor of Glen Cain
Brian Cairns
Nina Callas
Cameron Foundation
In honor of Donald Thomas Campbell
Craig Campbell
Rob Capps
Card Hub
Timothy Carey
Raul Carmenate
In Memory of Andrea F. Carret
Jason Carroll
Adam Carte
The Casey Kelsey Family
Casual Connect
Vint Cerf
Ian Chan
Nathan Chan
ChatContacts.com
Crystal Chen, MD
Jim Chervenak
Stuart Cheshire
Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
James Cho and Sophia Kim
Michael Choy and Shannon Moffett
Nicholas Chu
Charles Clark
In memory of Mattie Ruth Galloway Clark
Code for Progress
Edouard Cole
John and Lenore Cooney
Thomas Cooper
Tom Cooper
Ryan Conlon
CouponAlbum.com
CouponFollow
CouponLawn
Ardelle Cowie
CRAIC Technologies Inc.
Kevin Cramer
Credit Card Forum
Cyan
Daboosh Family, Israel
Fred Dart, FTDI
Claudine Co and Danny Dawson
Ad Davidse & Cathie Schrier
Carl de Marcken
In memory of Alida Desselle Hebert
Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
Dev Bootcamp
Hester Diamond
Alex Dingle
Sibbald Doan
In Memory of Paul L. Donoho
Matthew Dorton
Kathleen Doster
Michael and Denise Doyen
DreamHost and its Customers
Susanne Durst
Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak
Kenneth Eddings
Ron Bailey and Bill Edwards
Larry and Kas Eldridge
Evgenia Emets
Todd Enders
entumovil.net
Davide G. Erro
EWCY Foundation
Extra Space Storage
Peter Farrell
Damian Farry
In memory of Joseph A Fleck Jr
Margaret Flickinger
Flipit
Carla and Charlie Flournoy
Norm Fogelsong
Marc Forand
William Ford
Gregory Fox
Gale H. Freeman, President, Freeman Foundation
Janet and Lloyd Frink
In memory of Amie Frischer
David Fry and Meidee Goh
Paul Funk
Kevin Gamble
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
GE Foundation Matching Gifts
Ken Geib
Alan George
James S George
Betty Harrell Gerlack
John Giannandrea
Richie Goldman
Robert J Gordon
J. Alex Graeffe
Grainger Matching Gifts Program
Brad Grantham and Kris Ingram
Lawrence Greenfield
Rakesh and Kirti Gupta
Mary Beth Guard
Russ & Barbara Guard
Linne Ha
Paul Haahr
Alexandre Haag
Joanna Haas
The Hamilton Foundation
Josh Bernoff and Kimberley Harding
In honor of Tom and Shoshana Harper
The Harrity Family
Aaron and Stacy Harsh
Janet and Richard Hart
Shabbir Hassan
Wayne Hathaway
healthinsurance.org
Healers Who Share
Charles F. Hebert and Marie Alida Desselle Hebert
Paul Henry
Nathan Herring and Ms. Miller Sherling
In honor of B. Hesper
Nick Hodulik & Jonathan Taylor
Zach Hoeken
Kenneth Holden
Jay Hormel
Chris Horning
In loving memory of William B. Howland
Lisha and Andy Hu
Celia and Daniel Huber
Ted Huber
Aaron Hung
Robert and Beth Hurt
IBM Employee Donations
Carla and Philippe Ifrah
Imperial Reach
Indie Prize
INSERTO
Insiders Findland Oy Ab
Intetics Co.
Tetsuya Isozaki
IT WORKS Inc.
Douglas Jaffe
Dirk Jagdmann
Kent Janér
The Jellyvision Lab, Inc.
John P. McCaskey Foundation
Dan Jones
Jay Jones
Boyan Jovanovic
Joy is one's fuel
In memory of our smart, loving Grandma Judy
Lucian Kafka and aura.travel
Ellen Karaku
James Kelley
Jack Kessler
In honor of SJ Klein, Jr. and Jimmy Wales
Ernest L. Bruns Jr. and Sue Ann Kendall
Michael W. Kidd
Bennett Killmer & Julie Hirschfeld
Ben Kim and Jullie Myung
In honor of Harold King
Sam King
Nanette Kinkade
The Kipping Family
Ficus and Beth Kirkpatrick
The KlickEx Group
Knowledge. Collaboration. Progress. |M|
In Memory of George Steven Knowles
Igor Kopylov
Corey Kosak
Mr. & Mrs. Steve Kropla
Semyon Kruglyak
Pradhan Kumar
Gene Kusmiak
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
乐进会
Linda Lee
Yanfang Lei
Elizabeth and Jon Leonard
In memory of Mary Lew
The Leon Levy Foundation
Leong & Richards
Seonhee An & Vincent Leung
Shawn Ligocki
Lincoln Loop
Liza Loop
Gregg and Libby Lindahl
Christopher J. Lingle
Little Johnny Koerber
Richard and Suzanne Liu
Pete Large & Mandy Loomis
John Longres & Jeff Graham
Erin Lowry
Marilyn Lucht
Yonghao Luo
Greg & Liz Lutz
MABTOOLS
William and Christina Maddox
In memory of Shaynon MaGee Jordan
Nathan Mak
Make-A-Website
Anup Mantri
Darrin Massena
May Family Foundation
Lenza McElrath
Elizabeth McGlynn
In memory of Nadia L. Mead, Mandarin, Florida
Steve and Carole Memishian
Sam Meshberg
Helen and Stephen Mildenhall
Kelly T. Miller
J. Michael Miller, President Sebastian Brown Productions, Inc.
Ryan Mills
In honor of Trudy Milne
Dr. L. David Mirkin
Alan Mishchenko
Jamie Molaro and Ian Reasor
Miles Morland
In memory of Carmen and Andrew Moore
Kenneth Brandon Moore
David Moore Boulware
For Sam Mott
Amy D. Mullen
Ty Mulroy and Ellen Ray
Umesh Nagarkatte
National Instruments
In memory of Robert Neale
Seth Neiman
Gregory Nelson
Donors of Network for Good
Netmail & Messaging Architects Employee-Owners
In loving memory of Elissa Newlander
Jerrold Newman/Willowridge Partners, Inc
In memory of Marjorie Yospin Newman
Hélène Nivoix, Besançon, France
Nordic Naturals, Inc.
North American Herb and Spice
Northwater Capital Management, Inc.
No Starch Press
Diya Obeid
In honor of Tom Oliver
Lennox Olney
On behalf of the Scientists of Huntsville, Alabama
John and Rita Ousterhout
Kurt Overley
Jhilmil Pandit & Punchhi Pandit
Gideon G. Panter, M.D.
Dylan Parker
Philipp Patch
In memory of my beloved mother, Pravina Patel
Terrance D. Paul
PCH Integrated Regulatory Services, Inc.
Lena Pepper
Drew Perkins
Daniel Perlman
In honor of Nick Peter
Bryce and Shonni Peterson
In memory of Andrew Phillips
Duane Phillips
In memory of Donald R. Pieper
Joseph Pistritto
Doug Pitcock
Rahn Pitzer
Ekaterina Podossinnikova
Alexander Polsky
Stephen and Diane Post
Stephen Powelson
Vipul Ved Prakash
Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
Rob and Anna Prestezog
In Honor of Tom Pretlow
William Prinzmetal
Steve G. Privette
Marcel Przymusinski
Max J. Pucher
Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
Quality Logo Products
Radon.com
PVS Raju
B S Ramamurtie
ReferenceMe
Richard and Lisa Reichman
Stevan Rich
Paul Resnick and Caroline Richardson
Stephen Revilak and Julie Rioux
Deborah and Peter Rieman
Kevin Riggle
Green Rives
Gaspar Cabrera Roca
Roca Markets
Arnold G. Rogers
Rohini and Prasana Family Trust
Dennis Rossman
Alexander and Jeannine Rubenstein
Robert Rubenstein
Matt Rudary
Runtime Design Automation
Mark Russinovich
Rusty and Stormy
Stephen Sacks
Kavita Saini
Paul Salaets
Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
Dorothea and Hartmut Samtleben
Dr Steven G. Sanders
John and Susan Savva
In memory of Dr. Matis Scheinberg
E. Schmale
Roy Schneiderman (Bard Consulting)
Aaron Schrader
Anna Scott
SelectAware
Michael Shimoide
Brett Simmers
Russel Simmons
Simply Science, LLC
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
Wilmar Siqueira
www.ski-epic.com
skiprobert
Petr Skrla
Dick Smith, Sydney, Australia
Minyoung Sohn
Solera Family
P. Clark and Margaret Souers
Spellbook
Joel Spiegel
Squiddershins
H. Scott Stillings
denise stockman
Stratos
Studio Alchemy
SumoCoupon
David Sunderland
Roger Suss
G. & M. Swaminathan
Bronwyn Miriam Syed
Terry Tai
In memory of Andrea Tallant
Yew-Koon Tan
Targit
Peter Taubkin
Luigi Tempini & Family
Texas Gulf Bank
Thanksgiving Fund
Thatai Family
Sudhir Thomas
Min Thu
Viajes Tierra Sinai
Tim Thousand, Scooter Software
Tikvah Philanthropic Fund
TisBest Charity Gift Cards
Jonathan Tobert
E. Trewitt
In memory of Alan Turing
Christopher R. Turner
Rui Ueyama
Peter Ungar
Jason Ursaner
James Uttley
Erik Vaaler
David L. Van Brunt
Sami Vanhatalo
Jason VanWees
Ajit Varki
Genevieve Vaughan
David Vaughn
VMware Foundation
R.K. Vincent
Vivaxis
Ernst Volgenau
Steven Wade
Ted Waitt
Chad and Kim Wagner
In memory of Jack Wahl
Robert Wares
Jim and Judy Warner
Rich Warner
Faris bin Wateeha
丁磊
Web Hosting Coupon Codes
Steven Weinstein
Janet White and Michael Clark
Zack White
Dr. Jack Widrich Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation Staff
Endymion Wilkinson
Ms. Caryl and Janice McNeilly and Dr. Robert E. Williamson
William Wilby
Joseph Willis
In honor of Kellie Wilson
Wil Wilstro
Wisdom and Compassion
Josh Wiseman
The Wolff Family
Christine Wright
Oliver Wright
Eddie Wu
Xie Wu
Dr. W. Scott Wycoff
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
Jeff Yass
Brian Ho Tze Yew
Alice Young
Becky Zatsman
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Greg Zeschuk
Anonymous Donors (163)

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