[vinceguidry]

Everything large organizations and ultra-rich people do is PR.

[melling]

Especially the anonymous super rich.

http://m.philanthropy.com/article/Donors-Increasingly-Make-T...

[frandroid]

Nice, better than my response. :)

[cma]

the anonymous veneer can just be used to make the donator seem even more selfless and impressive:

http://youtu.be/gqncCjxGqGw

[melling]

No enthusiasm. Just demonstrating that that person was obviously wrong. It was the quickest thing I could come up with in 15 seconds. I was just giving a proof by contradiction. All I need is one, right? I can give you other reasons people give to charities. They might want to see a cure for a disease they might get, for example.

$125m to Stanford: http://cancer.stanford.edu/research/documents/scinewswinter2...

Didn't one or both of the Google founders donate to help some conditions that they have?

Howard Hughes gave a lot of his money to his medical institute simply because he didn't want to give it to the government.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institu...

[vinceguidry]

Staying out of the public eye is very much a PR strategy as well.

[frandroid]

Like ordering protesting student-teachers to be ridden of by gang members... Making other companies bankrupt through leveraging your OS near-monopoly... Colluding with the SEC to not get criminally charged for your financial fraud... Investing your future memristors... Eradicating Malaria...