megadonor

plural megadonors · alternative mega-donor

1. Someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of donations flowing to a person or entity.

   Mr. Thiel’s $15 million appears to be the most ever spent by an individual megadonor to elect a single Senate candidate.

   2022 May 5, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, “Tucker, Thiel and Trump: How J.D. Vance Won in Ohio”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

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   [Leslie] Wexner is among a small number of Jewish community megadonors, billionaires who provide an outsize and growing proportion of funding for communal organizations and to a large extent determine what those organizations look like.

   2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents

   Businessman megadonor Art Pope, who backed Nikki Haley's primary bid against Trump this year, said the running mate pick would determine whether he backed the former president.

   2024 May 11, Alex Rogers, “Trump donors flock to Rubio as top pick for running mate”, in FT Weekend, London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 2

   Reed Hastings, the co-founder of Netflix, was one of the first Democratic megadonors to explicitly call for a new nominee, a case he is continuing to make privately to other media and technology executives.

   2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times, →ISSN