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(as of January 20, 2011)
The Museum of Nature & Science has secured more than $153 million in funds towards its current Expansion Project goal of $185 million, which will fund the site acquisition, exhibition planning and design and construction of the new building, education programs and an endowment. Major gifts include the following:
The Perot Children in honor of their parents, Margot and H. Ross Perot |
$50 million |
The Rees-Jones Foundation |
$25 million |
Hunt Petroleum |
$10 million |
The Hoglund Foundation & Family |
$10 million |
Mr. T. Boone Pickens |
$10 million |
The Honorable and Mrs. William P. Clements, Jr. |
$5 million |
Mr. and Mrs. Edward W. Rose III |
$5 million |
Anonymous |
$5 million |
David and Emily Corrigan, and Catherine Corrigan |
$2.5 million |
Anonymous |
$1 million |
Harry W. Bass, Jr. Foundation |
$1 million |
Beal Bank |
$1 million |
Mr. and Mrs. Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. |
$1 million |
The Costello Family |
$1 million |
The David M. Crowley Foundation |
$1 million |
Exxon Mobil Corporation |
$1 million |
Mrs. Nancy B. Hamon |
$1 million |
The Hersh Foundation |
$1 million |
Kathryn Hiett Jordan |
$1 million |
The Eugene McDermott Foundation |
$1 million |
Pioneer Natural Resources |
$1 million |
The Rosewood Foundation |
$1 million |
Harold Simmons Foundation |
$1 million |
Texas Instruments Foundation |
$1 million |
American Airlines, Inc. |
$1 million |
Asher Resources Partnership, Castex Foundation, Brenda and Glenn Picquet |
$500,000 |
The Boone Family Foundation and Family Gift |
$500,000 |
James. M. Collins Foundation, Dee Collins Torbert, Michael J. Collins, Dorothy C. Weaver |
$500,000 |
EOG Resources, Inc. |
$500,000 |
Hillcrest Foundation |
$500,000 |
Hoblitzelle Foundation |
$500,000 |
Swank Capital, LLC |
$500,000 |
The Mike and Mary Terry Family Foundation |
$500,000 |
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, L.L.P |
$300,000 |
Haynes and Boone, LLP |
$300,000 |
Rollin and Mary Ella King |
$300,000 |
AT&T |
$250,000 |
Forest Oil Corporation |
$250,000 |
McManemin Family Fund of Communities Foundation of Texas Megan and Casey McManemin |
$250,000 |
Museum Allocations from receipts from the Body Worlds exhibitions |
$250,000 |
Vick Charitable Foundation |
$250,000 |