Sergey Brin

Who?

From co-founder of Google to CEO of parent tech firm, Alphabet, Sergey is responsible for creating PAGERANK, an algorithm used by Google Search to measure the importance of web pages.

Net worth in 2018? $52 billion.

Charitable focus?

Saved from an anti-Semitic regime as a child, Sergey went on to create the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society with a donation of $1million, before starting the Brin Wojcicki Foundation with his wife. Beneficiaries cover a variety of NPOs including Ashoka, which invests in social entrepreneurs, and the Tipping Point Community, tasked with fighting poverty in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Additionally, the couple have donated $32 million to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s research.

Biggest donation?

$382.8 million to Brin Wojcicki Foundation.