Rotman Gets $30 Million Gift For Big Ideas

David Booth remains the largest single benefactor to a business school with his $300 million gift to the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. A graduate of the business school, he co-founded the maverick investment firm Dimensional Fund Advisors, one of the largest institutional fund managers in the U.S.

David Booth remains the largest single benefactor to a business school with his $300 million gift to the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. A graduate of the business school, he co-founded the maverick investment firm Dimensional Fund Advisors, one of the largest institutional fund managers in the U.S.

Largest Donors To Business Schools

Gifts School Years Donors
$300 million Chicago (Booth) 2008 David Booth
$200 million Michigan (Ross) 2013, 2006 Stephen Ross
$150 million Stanford GSB 2011 Robert & Dorothy King
$105 million Stanford GSB 2006 Philip Knight
$100 million Florida State 2015 Jim Moran
$100 million UCLA (Anderson) 2015 Marion Anderson
$100 million UC-San Diego (Rady) 2015 Rady Family
$100 million Columbia Business School 2013 Ronald Perelman
$100 million Columbia Business School 2010 Henry Kravis
$80 million Cornell (Johnson) 2010 David & Patricia Atkinson
$75 million Florida (Warrington) 2014 Al & Judy Warrington
$69 million Hawaii (Shidler) 2014 Jay Shidler
$67 million Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) 2013 David Tepper
$66 million Toronto (Rotman) 2016 – 1993 Joseph Rotman
$62 million Virginia (Darden) 1999 Frank Batten
$60 million Michigan (Ross) 2015 The Zell Family
$60 million Northeastern (D’Amore-McKim) 2012 Richard D’Amore & Alan McKim
$60 million Thunderbird 2004 Sam & Rita Garvin
$50 million Queen’s (Smith) 2015 Stephen Smith
$50 million Boston Univ. (Questrom) 2015 Allen & Kelli Questrom
$50 million Rice (Jones) 2015 John Doerr
$50 million Tennessee-Knoxville (Haslam) 2015 Jim Haslam
$50 million Georgia Tech (Scheller) 2012 Ernest Scheller Jr.
$50 million Harvard Business School 2010 Tata Group
$50 million Yale SOM 2010 Ned Evans
$50 million Arizona State (Carey)/td>

2003 William P. Carey
$50 million Texas-Austin (McCombs/td>

2000 Red McCombs
$50 million Arkansas (Walton)/td>

1998 Walton Family

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