The Silicon Valley Business Journal
October 24, 2018
By Lynn Peithman Stock, Deputy Managing Editor, Silicon Valley Business Journal
 


The 50 top corporate philanthropists donated $156 million in 2017 in Silicon Valley. That’s an increase of 22 percent over the previous year.

Who is No. 1 on this year’s list? Last year, Alphabet parent Google knocked off the perennial top Silicon Valley corporate giver: The Sobrato Foundation. Will this year's rankings reveal any surprises?

To find out who gave the most money in the area, attend our Corporate Philanthropy event on Thursday, Nov. 8, at the Corinthian Grand Ballroom in downtown San Jose. Event details can be found at this link.

Here are Silicon Valley’s most generous corporations, according to their cash contributions to Silicon Valley charities in 2017, ranked alphabetically:

  • Adobe Inc.
  • Agilent Technologies Inc.
  • Alphabet/Google Inc.
  • Anritsu Company
  • Applied Materials Inc.
  • Bank of the West
  • Brandenburg Family Foundation
  • Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Citrix Systems Inc.
  • Comerica Bank
  • Cupertino Electric Inc.
  • Cypress Semiconductor Corp.
  • DLA Piper LLP
  • eBay Inc.
  • EY
  • Fairmont San Jose
  • Fremont Bank
  • Gilead Sciences Inc.
  • Heritage Bank
  • IBM Corp.
  • Intel Corp.
  • Intero-A Berkshire Hathaway Affiliate
  • Kaiser Permanente Northern California
  • KLA-Tencor Corp.
  • KPMG LLP
  • Lam Research Corp.
  • Lockheed Martin
  • Maxim Integrated Products Inc.
  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • MUFG Union Bank Foundation
  • NetApp Inc.
  • Nvidia
  • Oracle Corp.
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
  • Republic Family of Companies
  • Robson Homes LLC
  • San Francisco 49ers
  • San Jose Sharks/Sharks Foundation
  • SAP
  • Sares Regis Group of Northern California
  • Sereno Group
  • Silicon Valley Bank
  • The Sobrato Organization
  • Star One Credit Union
  • Tech CU
  • Texas Instruments
  • Varian Medical Systems Inc.
  • Vodafone Americas Foundation
  • W. L. Butler Construction Inc.
  • Wells Fargo Bank N.A.
  • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC