Sentence examples for top giver from inspiring English sources

Goldman is Barack Obama's number one contributor, and Merrill is the top giver to all-but-certain Republican nominee John McCain.

Last year, America's top giver, according to The Chronicle of Philanthropy's rankings, was William Barron Hilton of the Hilton hotel chain, who pledged $1.2 billion.

Kong Leung of APA Investments, a real estate investment group, was the top giver at $35,000, followed by $30,000 from the California Real Estate PAC. Former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan and Robert Fisher, managing director of investment firm Pisces Inc., each gave $25,000.

While Anthony and The Smiths ranked high on the list, which also includes writers, producers, musicians and comedians, the top giver was actress Jami Gertz and her husband Antony Ressler whose donations totaled more than $10.5 million given to their Ressler Gertz Foundation.

Top givers included political action committees and individuals affiliated with FedEx and Vanderbilt University, which donated $30,000 each, and HCA, with $25,000.

C1 Top Earners Were Top Givers The top 400 American earners in 2000 provided nearly 7percentt of all the charitable gifts reported on income tax returns for that year.

Among them, the top givers include Jeffrey A. Forbes, Mr. Baucus's former Finance Committee staff director, who has donated a total of at least $25,000 to Mr. Baucus, his political action committee or the Montana Democratic Party.

To capitalize on the popularity of Mr. Bush, the second-term Texas governor, the party has created a new level of top givers -- the Regents, individuals and companies who have given the party at least $250,000 since January 1999.

In a reflection of how once-reluctant Democrats have fully embraced the big-money system, the top givers were split roughly equally along party lines, with five Republicans, four Democrats and one independent, former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg.

Many of the party's top givers sent checks to Restore Our Future, the pro-Romney group, underwriting an advertising campaign that battered Mr. Romney's Republican rivals even as Mr. Romney himself struggled to win the trust of the party's restive conservative base.

Higher education is another popular cause among the top givers.