Ken Griffin
Founder & CEO, Citadel, Miami
Griffin’s Citadel continues to rake in the bucks for investors while Griffin doles out more of his personal fortune — $35 billion in a recent reckoning — for philanthropy. Griffin in the last year launched nonprofit Griffin Catalyst to fund education, enterprise and innovation, science and medicine, communities, upward mobility, freedom and democracy. He, of course, still wields a big funder’s stick in national politics. He also opines on Fed policy, U.S. debt and his alma mater Harvard. Just a sample of his giving: $2.1 million to Cristo Rey, a young North Miami Catholic prep school for students with limited means, $50 million for research at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami, $50 million to Baptist Health South Florida for research on Alzheimer’s and other neuro diseases, the largest single gift in Baptist history, $25 million for a surgical tower at Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, $9 million for math tutoring at Miami-Dade County public schools, $5 million to the Underline linear park in Miami, $5 million for 50 mini-soccer fields in low-income communities, $7 million to restore a Palm Beach park.
