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Benefactors

Thank You from the Wikipedia Community

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Gracias. Merci. Shukran. 谢谢你. In every language, it means thank you. Thank you for sustaining Wikimedia and benefiting readers around the world. We are proud to list your name on this page, which celebrates those who gave at a very high level. Thank you again. We are honored to have you with us.

Become a Benefactor

Have questions about our giving levels or donating to the Wikimedia Foundation? Please send an email to benefactorswikimedia.org.

Legacy Gifts

Your gift to the Wikimedia Foundation ensures that Wikipedia is here for the next generation. Learn more about Legacy Gifts.

This page reflects gifts received as of July 1, 2012. See 2011–2012 Benefactors.

Major Benefactors

Stanton Foundation (Press release)
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (Press release)
Peter Baldwin and Lisbet Rausing
Pavel Durov (Announcement)
Brin Wojcicki Foundation (Press release)
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
Michael Chastain
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Charina Endowment Fund
Craigslist Charitable Fund
Anonymous Donors (3)

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

Apple Matching Gift Program
JoeBen Bevirt and Jennifer Barchas
Elmira Choopani & Khanh Vu
In Memory of Timothy J. Cronin
de Ramel Foundation
George Jankovic
Goldman, Sach, and Co. Matching Gifts Program
Google Matching Gift Program
Keel Foundation
MathWorks
Microsoft Matching Gifts
Newsmax Media
Kimberly Sweidy & Raymie Stata
Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation
Wargaming.net
Yardi Systems
Anonymous Donors (3)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

Adobe Matching Gifts Program
In memory of Tim Allen
In memory of Yousef A. AlSager
Michael & Xochi Birch
Annette Campbell-White
Donors to the National Combined Federal Campaigns
Disruptor Foundation
Fenwick & West LLP
Toni Godfrey
Marc Haas Foundation
James Heilman
Abdulah Ibne Atiq
InstaForex Companies Groups
Jizo, Tallulah, Heathcliff and Bob
Ravi Kalidindi
Takashi Kousaka
Richard Lounsbery Foundation
Greg & Liz Lutz
Peter Wheeler and Elizabeth Munro
NEUBOX LLC
Frank Palmans
RetailMeNot
Nicholas & C Joan Riesland
Shaked Family, Tel Aviv
Mark Heising and Liz Simons
John Templeton Foundation
James and Angela Thompson Foundation
Tripling Elephants
Charles Vollum
Malon & Susan Wilkus
Scott Wolf
Donors of YourCause
Anonymous Donors (8)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

AIG Matching Grants Program
Alza.cz a.s.
In honor of Rashid & Dulce Afzal
Prakhar Prerak Akta Pravin
Saeed Ahmed Al Otaiba
Fatima Al-Sabah
America's Charities
American Express Company Employee Giving Program
Amgen Foundation
Anurag Acharya
The Anderson Family
Chris Anderson
Dave Arneson
Vadim Asadov
Auto Insurance EZ
Jesse Ausubel
G.P. "Buzz" Avery
Awareness Publishing
R & A Bandela
Scott Banister
Cindy L. Barber
Jack Baylis
Norma Bell
Graeme Birchall
The Blackburn Family
Boeing Co. Matching Gifts
Will Brall
Roger E. Broughton
Thomas Brown
Thomas Buhr
Barry Buzan
Alex Ezra Cable
Brian Cairns
John Cameron
Card Hub
Raul Carmenate
Andrea F. Carret
Adam Carte
Crystal Chen, MD
Chevron Humankind Matching Gifts Program
James Cho
Michael Choy and Shannon Moffett
Dave and Dani Coleman
CouponAlbum.com
Oisin Crawley
Credit Card Forum
Ad Davidse & Cathie Schrier
De Giorgi
Carl de Marcken
In memory of Alida Desselle Hebert
Stephen & Elizabeth Detwiler
Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation U.S. Matching Gifts Program
John G. Dove, Revere, Massachusetts
Michael and Denise Doyen
Ken & Hara Durkin
Mark Duttweiler and Christine Pajak
Nathaniel P. and Lacy Edmundson Turner Fund of The Dallas Foundation
Charles Engelke and Laurie White
Mike Estee
Damian Farry
Stephen Fleming
Charlie and Carla Flournoy
William Ford
Freeman Foundation
Friends of The Web
Kevin Gamble
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Matching Gifts Program
GE Foundation Matching Gifts
John Giannandrea
Global Impact
Richard Goldman
Grainger Matching Gifts Program
Alexandre Haag
Hamilton Foundation
Sean Hammons
The Harrity Family
Chris and Nicole Heathwood
H.N. Hoffman, III Foundation
Kenneth Holden
Adrian Holovaty
Hotger Corp.
Ying-Sheng Hu
Aaron Hung
IBM Employee Donations
William S. Ingles
INSERTO
Insiders Finland Oy Ab
Intetics Co.
Douglas Jaffe
Will Janacek
Kent Janér
The Jellyvision Lab, Inc.
The June and Ed Fund
Jay Jones
Richard Kandarian
Steve Kass
Aruna and Sudhakar Kaveeshwar
In honor of SJ Klein, Jr. and Jimmy Wales
Donald and Jill Knuth
Eric Koegler
Igor Kopylov
Kutemann Foundation
En souvenir de Réal Labelle
Jeffrey Lamkin
乐进会
Leon Levy Foundation
Gregg and Libby Lindahl
Richard and Suzanne Liu
John Longres & Jeff Graham
Monique Lusse
Joseph Lyons
In memory of Shaynon MaGee Jordan
Sara and Josh Margulis, Honeyfund.com, Inc.
MassageSchool.org
Soham Mazumdar
Marc McCoombe
In memory of Marc Meilleur's teachers and mentors
Eugene Mesgar
Kelly T. Miller
Timothy Mott
Ty Mulroy and Ellen Ray
David Mumford
National Instruments
Donors of Network for Good
In memory of Richard Newton, Dean of Engineering UC Berkeley
Alexey Novgorodov
NPO Science and Technology for Society, Japan
Candice O'Denver
On behalf of the Scientists of Huntsville, Alabama
In memory of Colin A. Park
Dylan Parker
Patterson
Lena Pepper
Bryce and Shonni Peterson
In memory of Donald R. Pieper
Joseph Pistritto
Rob and Anna Prestezog
PSW GROUP
Jennifer Kapila and Anis Qizilbash
Qualcomm Matching Gifts Program
For Tejas and Taarika Raghuram
Mike Ranta
Tom and Xiaoling Rawson
Rear Admiral Gametools
Reservoir Labs, Inc.
Alex Rigopulos
In memory of our beloved and inquisitive son, Cassidy Ringwald
In honor of H.W. Roberson
Kathleen Rogers & Rick Teller
Philip Rogers
Matt Rudary
Salesforce.com Foundation Matching Gifts
www.ski-epic.com
skiprobert
Sara Smollett
Nicolas Spadaro
Kim Spitznagel
Doug and Carrie Standley
Victoria Steinmetz
H. Scott Stillings
StrongAuth, Inc.
Sugar Loaf Guild
Terry Tai
Jacob Taylor and Jean Park
Luigi Tempini & Family
Texas Gulf Bank
Trendsales
Laurent Tu
Jason Ursaner
Vafa Family
VMware Foundation
In memory of Jack Donald Wahl
Claudia and Joseph Walter
Alex and Lily Wang
Washakie Foundation
Faris bin Wateeha
Dr. Jack Widrich Foundation
John and Lacey Williams
In honor of Kellie Wilson
Xie Wu
Yahoo Employee Funds Matching Gifts
Jonathan Young
Becky Zatsman
Zephyr Charitable Foundation
Greg Zeschuk
Anonymous Donors (48)

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Become a Benefactor

Legacy Gifts

Major Benefactors

Patrons ($15,000 – $49,999)

Leading Donors ($5,000 – $14,999)

Sustaining donors ($1,000 – $4,999)

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