Sue Gross (born in February 1950) is an American billionaire philanthropist. She was formerly the President of the William and Sue Gross Foundation until creating the Sue J. Gross Foundation in 2017. Her net worth is estimated at $1.3 billion. Early life and education Sue Gross was born in February 1950 in Phoenix Arizona. She has two sisters: Sally Warpinski and Sandra Stubban. In 1985, Sue moved to Laguna Beach, California, where she has been a resident since. Career Sue has served on the following Boards: UCI Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing Dean’s Cabinet, OC Teacher of the Year, and Irvine Cove Community Board. Philanthropy Sue Gross is a known and dedicated philanthropist. As president of the William and Sue Gross Family Foundation, Sue was in charge of and directed the more than $700 million the foundation gave to worthy causes in healthcare, medical research, and education. Bill Gross publicly acknowledged Sue Gross’ leadership and contributions to the family foundation in an interview with Bloomberg in 2016 stating, “Sue’s in charge of that [the foundation]. She spends all her time looking for opportunities, a lot of it local. I report to her." Sue is no longer connected to the foundation, a representative said, and runs another under her own name. On January 21, 2005, Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, announced a $23.5 million gift from Bill and Sue Gross to endow undergraduate and medical school scholarships, as well as support business school faculty members. “Now [Bill] and Sue are making an investment in the lives of countless students, whose Duke education will benefit them and all those it will enable them to serve. Continuing to attract excellent students and enlarging the endowment to support our ‘need-blind’ admissions policy are among my highest priorities, and I am profoundly grateful that the Grosses have so generously supported these important goals,” said Duke president Richard H. Brodhead. Their fortune placed the couple among the preeminent philanthropists in Orange County—in 2010 they made a gift of $10 million in seed money to fund a stem cell laboratory at UC Irvine. After seeing a heart-wrenching “60 Minutes” report in 2012, the couple reportedly started writing anonymous $15,000 checks to workers laid off from the Space Shuttle program after NASA ended it. Bill and Sue Gross’s largest gift was $40 million to the University of California, Irvine in 2016 to establish a nursing