Thanks a reader who alerted us to a nice read on David Koch in Conde Nast Portfolio.
The story talks about how he is ranked seventh in the magazine’s Generosity Index, just behind the likes of Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. His most recent gift is the $100 million he donated during the summer to the New York State Theater at Lincoln Center,
It also talks about his marriage and how he survived a plane crash and cancer.
He says the motive for much of his giving can be traced to that February evening on the tarmac in L.A. “When you’re the only one who survived in the front of the plane and everyone else died—yeah, you think, My God, the good Lord spared me for some greater purpose,” he says. “My joke is that I’ve been busy ever since, doing all the good works I can think of so he can have confidence in me.”