megadonor

English

Etymology

From mega- +‎ donor.

Noun

megadonor (plural megadonors)

1. Someone who donates a lot, or who is responsible for a large amount of the donations flowing to a person or entity.
   • 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:

     [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.

   • 2022 May 5, Shane Goldmacher, Maggie Haberman, “Tucker, Thiel and Trump: How J.D. Vance Won in Ohio”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

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

   • 2024 May 11, Alex Rogers, “Trump donors flock to Rubio as top pick for running mate”, in FT Weekend, page 2:

     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 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times‎^[3], →ISSN:

     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.

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