The Most Generous Celebrities

Parade magazine has released its Most Generous Stars list. Here are the top 10 (out of 30):

1. Oprah Winfrey — $50,200,000: The Oprah Winfrey Foundation and Oprah’s Angel Network – education, health care, and advocacy for women and children worldwide.

2. Herb Alpert — $13,000,000: The Herb Alpert Foundation – music education, including the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.

3. Barbra Streisand — $11,000,000: The Streisand Foundation – the environment, women’s issues, civil rights, AIDS research and advocacy.

4. Paul Newman — $10,005,000: Scholarship for Kenyon College, his alma mater, in Gambier, Ohio.

5. Mel Gibson — $9,899,654: Holy Family Church in Malibu, Calif.

6. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — $8,400,000: The Jolie-Pitt Foundation – New Orleans reconstruction, refugee aid, cross-cultural understanding.

7. (tie) Lance Armstrong — $5,000,000: The Lance Armstrong Foundation – cancer research, education and advocacy.

7. (tie) Michael Jordan — $5,000,000: Hales Franciscan High School, a historically black all-boys school in Chicago.

7. (tie) Eric Lindros — $5,000,000: London Health Sciences Centre, a Canadian hospital where the former hockey player was treated.

10. Rush Limbaugh — $4,200,000: Financial assistance to the children of Marines and law-enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.

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