Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1908 — $48,000,000 in Benefactions. [ARTICLE]

$48,000,000 in Benefactions.

According to statistics collected by the Chicago Tribune, the sum of $148,902,130 was given away for the good of mankind during the year 1007. Of this amount educational institutions rgpeived $70,015,542; religious institutions, $0,343,802; museums, art galleries and public improvements, $17,247,400, and libraries, $2,043,000. Tbe heaviest donors were John D. Rockefeller. Mrs. Rosseli Wage and Andrew Carnegie, in tbe order named, although there were more than a dozen others who gave amounts above $1,000,000 each, and it is noted that over $30,000,000 of the total sum was contributed by women.