Haim and Cheryl Saban, outspoken defenders of Israeli government policies, gave $3 million. San Francisco Bay area philanthropist Laure L. Woods, former World Savings Bank CEO Herbert Sandler and hedge fund manager Donald Sussman each gave $1.5 million. Jay Robert and Mark Katherine Pritzker, of the
partner in business, David Packard, similarly gave $1.65 billion to his Packard Humanities Institute the year before. Herbert Sandler gave $1.3 billion to the Sandler Family Supporting Foundation, and the Stowers, of American Century, gave more than $1 billion to their medical research institute.