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10 billionaires who are giving generously to the world

New Delhi: Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a

India TV Business Desk Updated on: February 13, 2014 6:25 IST
#6 Charles Johnson



Amount donated in 2013: $250 million

Net worth: $5.6 billion

Beneficiary: Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

Background: Charles Johnson headed Franklin Resources, the parent company of Franklin Templeton Investments, which his father founded. Johnson graduated from Yale in 1954, and recently gave the biggest donation the university has ever received from a living donor.

 

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