https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koch
He gave away millions to:
medical research...
Between 1998 and 2012, Koch contributed at least
$395 million to medical research causes and institutions
the arts....
In July 2008, Koch pledged
$100 million over 10 years to renovate the
New York State Theater in the
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, now named in his honor
[70] and pledged
$10 million to renovate fountains outside the
Metropolitan Museum of Art.
[71]
education....
From 1982 to 2013, Koch contributed
$18.6 million to
WGBH Educational Foundation, including
$10 million to the
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) show
Nova.[76][77] Koch was a contributor to the
Smithsonian Institution in
Washington, D.C., including a
$20 million gift to the
American Museum of Natural History, creating the David H. Koch Dinosaur Wing and a contribution of
$15 million to the
National Museum of Natural History to create the new
David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, which opened on the museum's 100th anniversary of its location on the National Mall on March 17, 2010.
[78] He also served on the executive board of the
Institute of Human Origins.
[79] In 2012, Koch contributed
$35 million to the
Smithsonian to build a new dinosaur exhibition hall at the
National Museum of Natural History.
[80][81]
Koch also financed the construction of the
$68 million Koch Center for mathematics, science and technology at the
Deerfield Academy, a highly selective
independent,
coeducational boarding school in
Deerfield, Massachusetts,
[82][
non-primary source needed] and was named its first and only Lifetime Trustee.
[82]
...and was even commended by Bronco Bama for his efforts regarding prison reform to help prevent recidivism.
He was a great man by any measure.
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