“We spend our days at organizations pursuing different missions, but with a shared belief in an individual’s right to dignity, agency, justice and self-determination,” The Actons write in their 2019 Giving Pledge letter. Acton Family Giving and Solidarity Giving complete the philanthropic flush for this family, giving in support of building empathy and policy and systems change, respectively. Sunlight Giving focuses locally on the Bay Area and provides services to children and their families. The combined asset valuation of these charities is over $1 billion, as of the end of 2020.
Tegan Acton, in a recent interview, told me turning to large-scale giving after this windfall was by design. The Actons engage in philanthropy through three sister entities, all under the umbrella entity Wildcard Giving. In 2009, the duo released WhatsApp, which sold to Facebook (now Meta) for $22 billion in cash and stock in 2014. Stanford computer science graduate Brian Acton worked at Yahoo! with Jan Koum, where the two would link up for ultimate frisbee games and later traveled to South America together.
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This article was originally published on December 20, 2021.Įditor’s Note: This article is part of an ongoing series on the many forms of family philanthropy, in partnership with the National Center for Family Philanthropy, and produced by Inside Philanthropy’s editorial team.īrian and Tegan Acton, in their 40s and worth some $3 billion, are among a new cohort of Silicon Valley donors engaging in major philanthropy.
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