The Largest Healthcare Gifts of 2026
A running list of the biggest gifts and grants to US hospitals and health systems in 2026, from individuals, estates, foundations and companies.
Updated · 21 gifts
US hospitals and health systems have drawn a run of large gifts in 2026, from estates, individual donors and corporate donors. This list ranks the largest gifts and grants to healthcare that WYDE Newsroom has reported on or verified this year.
Dates are when each gift was announced or reported. The list updates whenever a new gift is covered.
| # | Donor | Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bill Ackman and Neri Oxman | Ackman Oxman InstituteTo launch the Ackman Oxman Institute, a New York brain research, rehabilitation, recovery and longevity center, with a donation of 10 million shares of Pershing Square Inc. | $400 million |
| 2 | Boston Celtics ownership group | Boston Children's HospitalA pediatric mental health facility, research into childhood diseases, advanced training for pediatric nurses, an innovation fund and family programs. The total of more than $200 million includes Rob and Karen Hale's $100 million from December | $200 million |
| 3 | Harold Hamm | University of OklahomaHealth education and research, the diabetes center, and the health campus that will be renamed for Hamm | $150 million |
| 4 | Felicia and Ben Horowitz | Intermountain HealthCommitment to Nevada's first stand-alone children's hospital in Las Vegas, to be named the Intermountain Health Felicia and Ben Horowitz Children's Hospital and expected to open in 2030 | $150 million |
| 5 | Dean Weidner (estate) | EvergreenHealthPlanning for a new patient-care tower on EvergreenHealth's Kirkland campus; the largest gift in the public hospital district's history | $100 million |
| 6 | George E. Norcross III | Cooper University Health CareInvestments in the City of Camden and Cooper's service area in South Jersey, prioritizing education and community programs that create jobs, training, and opportunity, benefiting the health system and the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Cooper. | $100 million |
| 7 | Anonymous donor | The Princess Margaret Cancer FoundationSupports the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre's highest-priority needs across research, education and care | $100 million |
| 8 | The Duke Endowment | North Carolina Children's HospitalGrant to help develop a new pediatric health system in North Carolina, toward the hospital's creation in Apex | $100 million |
| 9 | Gates Foundation | Uzima: A Stillbirth Prevention ProgramCommitment to the Uzima stillbirth prevention program, over the first three years | $50 million |
| 10 | Wellcome Leap | Uzima: A Stillbirth Prevention ProgramCommitment to the Uzima stillbirth prevention program, over the first three years | $50 million |
| 11 | Linda T. and John A. Mellowes and the Charter Manufacturing Foundation | Medical College of WisconsinExpand precision medicine research, develop genomic data infrastructure and recruit leading medical talent, per BizTimes | $50 million |
| 12 | Farmer Family Foundation | The Christ HospitalModernization and expansion of facilities at the Mt. Auburn campus | $50 million |
| 13 | Peter Gilgan Foundation | The Ottawa HospitalC$50 million, the largest philanthropic gift in Ottawa's history, naming the Peter Gilgan Critical Care Tower at The Ottawa Hospital's new campus, toward the C$500 million Campaign to Create Tomorrow | $35.7 million |
| 14 | John and Ann Tickle | Ballad HealthTo support the future of local health care in Bristol, Tennessee, through the Ballad Health Foundation | $25 million |
| 15 | Coca-Cola Consolidated | North Carolina Children's HospitalGift to build and expand behavioral health programs; the first significant gift toward a goal of more than $1 billion for the campus in Apex | $25 million |
| 16 | Richard Levy | Dartmouth HealthLaunching Dartmouth Health at Home, which brings primary and palliative care into patients' homes, and a Family Caregiver Institute | $20 million |
| 17 | Larry and Judy Tanenbaum Family Foundation | Terry Fox FoundationC$25 million, the largest single donation in the Terry Fox Foundation's history, announced at the launch of Powered by Terry and unlocking Government of Canada matching funds for cancer research | $17.8 million |
| 18 | R. William (Bill) Cornell Jr. and Chloe T. Cornell | Case Western Reserve UniversitySupport for the Cornell Center and oral healthcare for people with special healthcare needs | $15 million |
| 19 | Bank of America | Boston Children's HospitalConstruction of a new pediatric psychiatric campus at the Franciscan Children's site in Brighton, part of a $640 million project | $10 million |
| 20 | Bank of America | Boston Children's HospitalHelp build a new pediatric behavioral health campus at Franciscan Children's in Brighton | $10 million |
| 21 | Tecsys Inc. | Prisma HealthBehavioral health hospital near Easley, South Carolina, paid over five years | $5 million |
This list covers gifts WYDE Newsroom has reported on or verified against a primary source. It is not a complete census.