Atlantic's Chuck Feeney Tops Forbes List of 'Most Generous' Givers
A new ranking by Forbes puts Warren Buffett at the top the list of the fifty U.S. philanthropists who gave the most in 2015, while Chuck Feeney, co-founder of the Duty Free Shoppers Group and founder of Atlantic Philanthropies, ranks as the most generous in terms of lifetime giving.
To come up with its list of the most generous philanthropists, Forbes calculated which of the wealthy Americans on its annual Top 50 Givers list gave the most over their lifetimes as a percentage of their current net worth. Feeney, who ranked seventh in 2015 giving with $427 million, has given a total of $7.46 billion to philanthropic causes since 1984, or 373,000 percent of his current net worth. Buffett, who donated Berkshire Hathaway shares worth $2.84 billion in 2015, the bulk of them to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has given $25.54 billion, or 39 percent of his current net worth, over his lifetime and is ranked as the tenth most generous giver...