the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise. Raikes joined with other local business leaders to purchase the team, keeping them "safe at home" for the enjoyment of Northwest baseball fans. Philanthropy Raikes has a wide range of philanthropic interests. He and his wife are co-founders of the Raikes Foundation. He is a trustee at the University of Nebraska Foundation, funded a professorship in agronomy, and was a designer of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. He has been active in United Way for several years. In 2006–2007, he co-chaired the annual campaign of United Way of King County with his wife, setting a national record for funds raised. Raikes is a major donor to the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity at Stanford University where he also established the Jeff and Tricia Raikes Undergraduate Scholarship Fund to ensure that students admitted to Stanford from rural and inner-city schools have an opportunity to attend the university. He was selected as a trustee of the university in 2012 and in 2017 was elected chair. In June 2008, Raikes donated approximately $10 million to the University of Nebraska's JD Edwards Honors Program, which officially changed its name to the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management shortly thereafter. In July 2017, Jeff Raikes and his wife Tricia Raikes inspired the creation of Giving Tech Labs and joined their board. Personal life Raikes and his wife, Tricia Raikes née McGinnis, have three children: Michaela, Connor, and Gillian. References External links Raikes Foundation Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management Giving Tech Labs 1958 births Living people American computer businesspeople American computer programmers American philanthropists Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation people Businesspeople in software Microsoft employees People from Ashland, Nebraska Stanford University alumni Stanford University trustees