The Top 100 Political Donors Ranked by Ethnicity

Documenting my column yesterday in Taki's on Jewish and gentile campaign contributors, here are the names of the Top 100 donors.

My latest Taki’s Magazine column tries to get a feel for changes of attitude among Jewish elites between the 2020 and 2024 elections by looking at OpenSecrets.org’s list of the 100 biggest political donors in each year and then estimating ethnicities from online sources.

As I reported yesterday, among the top 100 donors who are Jewish, giving to Democrats dropped 33% from 2020 to 2024, while big Jewish donors gave 29% more to Republicans.

But who exactly are these Top 100 Donors? I didn’t have room to list them all in Taki’s Magazine, so I will list their names here now.

In case you are interested here, are eight tables ranking the gentile and Jewish big givers to the Democrats and the Republicans in 2024 and 2020.

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Major gentile donors to the Democrats in 2024:

Fred Eychaner, a gay Chicago TV and newspaper entrepreneur, is sometimes listed as a Jewish zillionaire, but he was raised in a Methodist family.

Reid Hoffman, founder of Linked-In, is often assumed to be Jewish because whoever heard of a high-achieving person with a German surname who isn’t Jewish? But he’s not.

Wayne D. Jordan is a black real estate developer in the East San Francisco Bay area. He appears to be the only black on the top 100 list.

Chris Larsen is a Bay Area tech founder.

James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch. Yes, he being a Democrat and Rupert a Republican has caused a bit of friction within the family.

Patty Quillin is the wife of Reed Hastings, co-founder of Netflix. Reed Hastings is often confused with Reid Hoffman, and like Hoffman is assumed to be Jewish. After all, Hastings might be the most powerful man in Show Biz, so he has to be Jewish, right? But, instead, Hastings is about as pure Boston WASP as still exists. His father Wilmot Reed Hastings Sr. was an active Congregationalist and his mother was one of the Boston Brahmin Loomis family.

Jay Scheide lists his occupation as “unemployed,” although he composes classical music. He is a scion of an old money Presbyterian family whose fortune goes back perhaps before the Civil War to the 1859 Pennsylvania oil bonanza.

Karla Jurvetson, née Tinklenberg, is a doctor who was married to Steve Jurvetson, a big early investor in SpaceX and Tesla. They’ve been divorced for a decade.

Wendy Schmidt, née Boyle, is the wife of Eric Schmidt, long the CEO of Google. Eric Schmidt is another high-achiever with a German surname who is widely assumed to be Jewish but is not. A friend who had worked for Google once said that if you are looking for the central figure in the informal American power structure, Schmidt might be the best candidate.

Amos Hostetter sometimes shows up on Jewish publications lists of Jewish billionaires, but he’s not.

The next seven tables will appear after the paywall.