Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, were the most generous American philanthropists in 2013, with a donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock, valued at more than $970 million, to a Silicon Valley nonprofit in December 2013
The Chronicle of Philanthropy reported on Monday Feb 10,2014 that Zuckerberg's donation was the largest charitable gift on the public record in 2013 and put the young couple at the top of the magazine's annual list of 50 most generous Americans in 2013
The top 50 contributors made donations last year totaling $7.7 billion, plus pledges of $2.9 billion.
Over the past two years, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have donated about 36 million Facebook shares to the foundation.
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