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John D. Rockefeller Sr.
≈54%
John D. Rockefeller Sr.: $540M in giving, a historic GiveRate of ≈54% (Lifetime giving ÷ approx. 1913 peak fortune).
- Historic GiveRate
- ≈54%
- Giving
- $540M
- Basis
- Lifetime giving ÷ approx. 1913 peak fortune
- Status
- Calculated benchmark
- Sources
- Rockefeller Archive Center · Historical record
The math
The Rockefeller Archive Center reports approximately $540M in lifetime charitable giving and describes Rockefeller's fortune as roughly $1B by 1913. $540M ÷ $1B ≈ 54%. This is explicitly a giving-to-peak-fortune benchmark, not a claim that 54% of every dollar Rockefeller ever controlled went to charity.
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