Sequoia Capital while also being elevated to the position of chairman. Philanthropy Moritz is a signatory of The Giving Pledge, committing himself to give away at least 50% of his wealth to charitable causes. In June 2008, Moritz and his wife announced a donation of US$50 million to Christ Church, his Oxford college, the largest single donation in the college's history. In July 2012, it was announced that Moritz had donated £75m to Oxford University to provide £11,000 scholarships to students from families with an annual income below £16,000. The donation is the largest financial donation to an undergraduate university in European history. In February 2013 he gave $5 million for Juilliard School's Music Advancement Program. In September 2013 he and his wife gave $30 million to the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) to create the UCSF Discovery Fellows Program, the largest endowed programme for PhD students in the history of the University of California; UCSF will raise $30 million in matching funds. In February 2016 he and his wife gave $50 million to the University of Chicago (UC), benefiting the Odyssey programme, which supports lower-income students with outstanding potential; UC will raise $50 million in matching funds. In October 2016, The Guardian reported that Michael Moritz "donated $49,999 to a divisive ballot measure intended to clear San Francisco’s streets of homeless encampments, according to campaign filings". Moritz later wrote an Op-Ed for the Wall Street Journal opposing a homelessness funding measure. In May 2018, Moritz donated $20 million to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the largest donation the organization has received. In 2019, it was announced that his and his wife's charity Crankstart would be sponsoring the Booker Prize for novelists for the next five years. The couple did not want the name of their charity to be attached to the prize, which subsequently reverted to its old name of the Booker Prize. References External links Sequoia Capital Website 1954 births Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Giving Pledgers 21st-century philanthropists Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Living people Businesspeople from Cardiff Time (magazine) people British venture capitalists 21st-century American businesspeople 20th-century Welsh businesspeople Welsh billionaires Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania alumni Welsh people of German-Jewish descent Welsh emigrants to the United States