Making an Impressionism on Denver
The Denver Art Museum has been admired for its contemporary, Native American, and Western art. In 2006 the building gained a major Daniel Libeskind-designed expansion, thanks to a $20 million Read more…
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Foundations Rescue Detroit’s Accumulated Art
In a development extraordinary in its intentions, its scope, and its emergency nature, 15 Michigan and national foundations announced that they would pool together $466 million of philanthropic funds to Read more…
A Supertanker of Anti-cancer Funding
Daniel Ludwig grew up on the shores of Lake Michigan near Ludwig’s Pier, built by his grandfather in a little port, from which four of his uncles captained vessels plying Read more…
Mind-Body Links Uncovered by Templeton
After noticing that the mental and physical health of many of his patients was deeply entwined with their spiritual state of mind, a Duke-trained M.D. named David Larson founded the Read more…
Carving Out New Urban Oases
Much of Houston was built on marshland, and the hundreds of miles of natural streams and man-made ditches that drain the area were converted in many places to simple storm Read more…
World’s Most Powerful Telescope
The most influential tool in astronomy and astrophysics over the last generation has been the Hubble Space Telescope. In 2014, construction began on a new instrument, to be located atop Read more…
Largest Cash Gift to National Parks
More than 70 of our national parks have established cooperating nonprofit membership associations to help them raise donated funds for park improvements. In 2013, one of these linked nonprofits—the Golden Read more…
Lufkin Prize
Wall Street investor Dan Lufkin grew up in small-town New York, studied at Yale as a naval reservist, joined the Marines, and then earned his MBA at Harvard Business School Read more…
High-adventure Haven for Boys
The Boy Scouts of America had a problem. Fort A. P. Hill in Virginia had for nearly two decades been home to the Scouts’ national jamboree, which draws 45,000 boys Read more…
Rolling Restoration of Smithsonian’s Natural History Museum
The Smithsonian Institution was a product of philanthropy (a bequest from James Smithson), and about 30 percent of its budget continues to come from private donations (which play a particularly Read more…
Putting the Bayou Back in Bayou City
The city of Houston was founded on Buffalo Bayou, which runs from the surrounding prairie through downtown to the port lands. A 158-acre park hugging its banks has long been Read more…
Saving America’s Mustangs
Wild horses, or mustangs, have roamed free in the American West since the days of the Spanish conquistadors. Because they have almost no natural predators today, they multiply rapidly and Read more…
Garden in a Quarry
Andrew Hodges developed oil and gas fields in Louisiana, then became interested in the cutover timberlands of northwest Louisiana, from which all the virgin longleaf pine trees had been harvested, Read more…
Transforming Parks in Memphis, Atlanta, and Beyond
Shelby Farms is a huge oasis (4,500 acres, or five times the size of Central Park in New York) inside Tennessee’s largest city. For most of its life it has Read more…
Trust for the National Mall
After opening his commercial real estate firm in the nation’s capital in 1974, John “Chip” Akridge developed more than 11 million square feet of office space. Disturbed by the increasingly Read more…
Sanford Underground Research Facility
The Homestake gold mine extends a mile underground in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Its deep shafts had previously been used by physics professors for scientific experiments, and when Read more…
A Noah’s Ark in the Sunshine State
Brad Kelley—a college dropout whose discount cigarette empire made him a billionaire—brews his own bourbon, never uses e-mail, sometimes wears a kilt, and owns more land than there are acres Read more…
Acres Across America
In an example of what is called “cooperative conservation,” Walmart made a ten-year, $35 million commitment, in partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, to conserve at least one Read more…
World’s Largest Aquarium
Not surprisingly for the man who brought the big-box store to the hardware business, when Bernie Marcus decided that Atlanta needed an aquarium, he wanted it to be large. And Read more…
Maine North Woods
In the mid-1970s, Roxanne Quimby relocated to rural Maine to live close to the earth, without electricity or running water. A decade later, she partnered with beekeeper Burt Shavitz and Read more…