Monday, May 14, 2007

Carmelo Anthony Makes Top Donor List

GivingBack.org compiled a list of the largest charitable donations by celebrities in 2006 and Carmelo Anthony was in the top ten. Kinda makes him cuter don't it? Did he get married yet? To see the rest of the list click here.

Ranking
Donor
Amount Donated or Pledged
Recipients
1
Oprah Winfrey
$58,300,000
Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy, Oprah's Angel Network, and other groups
2
Geoffrey Beene
$44,000,000 (bequest)
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
3
Jack and Marie Lord
$40,000,000(bequest)
Hawaii Community Foundation
4
Barbra Streisand
$11,750,000
Barbra Streisand Foundation, numerous civil liberties, environmental, and civil rights organizations "dedicated to democratic values"
5
Tiger Woods
$9,500,000
Tiger Woods Learning Center, Earl D. Woods Sr. Scholarship Fund, and other Tiger Woods Foundation programs
6
Rosie O'Donnell
$5,700,000
Katrina Relief efforts including Renaissance Village (a temporary shelter for Katrina victims), day care centers, a rehabilitation center in San Antonio, and a Habitat for Humanity sub division in Baton Rouge
7
Martha Stewart
$5,000,000
New York's Mt. Sinai Hospital for a center on healthy aging
8
Carmelo Anthony
$4,282,000
CAF Youth Center in Baltimore, AAU Basketball, Syracuse University Recreational Center, and other charities
9
Pat and Shirley Boone
$3,000,000
Pepperdine University for the Graduate School of Education and Psychology Center for the Family
10
LeRoy Neiman
$3,000,000
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago to support a Master's class in figure drawing