That lump sum donation now makes a lot of sense.
The lump sum donation is in addition to the company's collection of monetary support from iTunes customers and Apple employees.
The huge volume of low-sum donations to the site suggested that the public, while hard-pressed financially, were giving as much as they could manage, she added.
This clause is often influenced by why the donors created a family foundation in the first place, rather than simply making lump-sum donations to charities in their wills, she said.
Ms. Combe, for instance, says that while she makes a good salary and her husband has a job in finance, they cannot afford such a large lump-sum donation.
He said that Mr. Leffler had advised one of his contributors, Rita Stark, a Queens real estate executive, to break up her lump sum contribution into 38 smaller donations under the names of 38 different individuals so that the funds would be eligible to be matched by public money.
The fact that both the number and total amount of donations summed up in an unprecedented way was of course induced by the dimension of the disaster.
The organization regularly receives a smaller sum of donations, and brings in less over-all revenue, than the Boy Scouts.
The good news is that the sum of donations from Jamie Dimon's firm is small relative to the total fund-raising of Columbia University.
The reporter, James Bush, made the connection between a relatively large sum of donations to Ms. Nicastro's campaign for re-election and Mr. Colacurcio, who has been lobbying the council for several years to allow him to expand the parking lot.
Two New Zealand women who were ordered to pay damages by an Israeli court for their role in Lorde cancelling a Tel Aviv concert have raised the sum through donations – but plan to give the money to the Gaza Mental Health Foundation instead.
