The 50 Biggest Givers

1. Bill & Melinda Gates

Net worth: $74 billion
Total giving 2012: $1.9 billion (2.6% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $28 billion

2. Warren Buffett

Net worth: $58.7 billion?
Total giving 2012: $1.87 billion (3.2% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $25 billion

3. George Soros

Net worth: $20 billion
Total giving 2012: $763 million (3.2% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $10 billion

4. Mark Zuckerberg

Net worth: $23.4 billion
Total giving 2012: $519 million (2.2% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $549 million 

5. Walton Family

Net worth: $144.4 billion
Total giving 2012: $432 million (0.3% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $4.6 billion

6. Eli & Edythe Broad

Net worth: $6.9 billion
Total giving 2012: $376 million ($5.5% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $3.5 billion

7. Michael Bloomberg

Net worth: $31 billion
Total giving 2012: $370 million (1.2% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $2.4 billion

8. Paul Allen

Net worth: $15.9 billion
Total giving 2012: $327.7 million (2.1% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $2 billion 

9. Chuck Feeney

Net worth: $2 million
Total giving 2012: $313 million (15,650% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $6.3 billion

10. Gordon & Betty Moore

Net worth: $4.9 billion
Total giving 2012: $250.5 million (5.1% of net worth)
Lifetime giving: $2.3 billion

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The 50 Biggest Givers

Most Power women CFOs - 9

Gina Wilson

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• Company: TIAA-CREF
• Revenue: $32.2 billion

As both CFO and EVP, Wilson heads up financial strategy for the retirement fund giant. It's a very big job: She leads a team of 600 employees overseeing financial management and planning, plus actuarial, accounting, and financial reporting. Wilson, 59, came to TIAA-CREF in 2010 after more than three decades in the industry. Under her watch, assets under management have ticked steadily upward from $426 billion to a whopping $523 billion today.

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Most Power women CFOs - 8

Ruth Porat

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• Company: Morgan Stanley
• Revenue: $32.1 billion

Ruth Porat became one of Wall Street's top women when she took Morgan Stanley's CFO spot shortly after the crisis. This year, her influence ticked upward with Morgan Stanley's deal to buy out the rest of Citigroup's stake in their brokerage joint venture. Porat has said that the deal will help boost the firm's deposits from $82 billion to $138 billion by mid-2005. Well respected both on Wall Street and off, Porat was reportedly a top candidate for the No. 2 job at the Treasury Department before she withdrew her name from consideration.

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Most Power women CFOs - 7

Safra Catz

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• Company: Oracle
• Revenue: $37.1 billion

Catz's responsibilities at the software giant are far-reaching. She has been the company's president since 2004, a title she now shares with ex-HP chief Mark Hurd. In 2011, she also took on the CFO job -- a position she held before, in the mid-2000s. As if that weren't enough, Catz also heads up the company's prolific mergers and acquisitions machine. She can take credit for close to 100 deals representing tens of billions of dollars. It's little wonder, then, that Catz regularly tops the ranks of highest paid women. According to Oracle's latest proxy, her compensation for the last fiscal year exceeded $50 million.

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Most Power women CFOs - 6

Sharon McCollam

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• Company: Best Buy
• Revenue: $49.1 billion

Analysts cheered when McCollam came out of retirement last year to try to turn around the struggling retailer. On the day of her appointment, Best Buy shares rose 4.2%. Credited with helping revive home goods company William Sonoma with an increased focus on online sales, McCollam is now regarded as one of Best Buy's best chances at climbing out of its current slump. The retailer lost $441 million last year. So far, she has acted quickly to cut costs: Best Buy slashed 400 jobs last year and enacted tougher rules with vendors when dealing with unsold merchandise.

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Most Power women CFOs - 5

Carol B. Tomé

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• Company: Home Depot
• Revenue: $74.8 billion

The housing bust might have spelled the end for a chain like Home Depot. Yet conservative plays by Tomé have helped the chain not just survive, but thrive despite the weak recovery. She scaled back the pace of new-store growth before the crisis, and invested heavily during the downturn. The result? The chain has handily outstripped the S&P over the last five years. Tomé's performance and her role, unusually broad for a CFO, have prompted speculation she may be in line for the top spot.

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Most Power women CFOs - 4

Marianne Lake

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• Company: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
• Revenue: $108.2 billion

Reeling after a $6 billion loss in the London Whale debacle, last year the top bank rearranged its executive lineup. Lake emerged as a top player in November, taking the CEO job and instantly becoming one of the most powerful women on Wall Street. The accountant by training was previously CFO of the company's consumer businesses and served as controller of its investment banking business. In her new job, U.K.-raised Lake works closely with CEO Jamie Dimon and is one of only two women on the bank's operating committee.

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Most Power women CFOs - 3

Catherine (Cathie) Lesjak

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• Company: Hewlett-Packard
• Revenue: -$12.65 billion

In more than two decades at HP, Lesjak has held a variety of positions at the computing behemoth, including interim CEO, SVP, and treasurer. She started her current job as EVP and CFO in 2007. Known in the company for her level head, she was a lone voice of reason when she vigorously counseled against HP's disastrous 2011 acquisition of Autonomy. The board overruled her and subsequently took a $8.8 billion loss on the deal.

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Most Power women CFOs - 2

Susan McFarland

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• Company: Fannie Mae
• Revenue: $127.2 billion

In 2011, McFarland landed what seemed from the outside to be an unenviable job. She came on as the third post-bailout CFO at Fannie Mae as the troubled mortgage giant was hemorrhaging cash. Since the bank entered conservatorship, it has cost taxpayers more than $85 billion. Last year, though, Fannie Mae began to turn a profit. In the second quarter of this year, it pulled in $10 billion, its sixth consecutive quarter of not losing money.

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Most Power women CFOs - 1

Patricia (Pat) Yarrington

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• Company: Chevron
• Revenue: $233.9 billion

Yarrington has played the long game at Chevron. She joined the company in 1980 after earning her MBA at Northwestern, and spent three decades climbing the ranks to the CFO spot in 2009. One of her core business beliefs, she said in a recent speech, has been persistence. "Take the long view," she said. "Don't get caught up worrying about climbing the career ladder as fast as you can." The fruits of her patience? One of the most important jobs at the country's second-largest oil company, and the fourth highest paid.

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