The philanthropic spirit among IEEE Foundation donors reflects a strong desire to personally “give back” to IEEE. Our donors are loyal, giving consistently throughout their career and lifetime. We recognize this level of ongoing commitment from our Honored Philanthropists to the IEEE Foundation in the IEEE Heritage Circle.

Honored Philanthropists are donors to the IEEE Foundations whose gifts total US$25,000 or more since 1 January 1995. Automatically recognized as members of the IEEE Heritage Circle, donors are categorized respectively within five named giving levels ranging from US$25,000 to more than US$1M. In 2017, 10 donors were upgraded to a higher recognition level and 11 new members joined the Circle.

Alessandro Volta Society – ($1,000,000.00 + )

S&C Foundation
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc.
The Grainger Foundation ^

Michael Faraday Society – ($500,000.00 – $999,999)

Anonymous
G&W Electric
Intel Foundation
Nokia Bell Labs

James Clerk Maxwell Society – ($250,000.00 – $499,999)

Doble Engineering Company
IBM Corporation
Valentin T. Jordanov
Thomas Kailath ^
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Qualcomm Incorporated
Raytheon Company
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. ^
Simons Foundation *
Texas Instruments, Inc.

Alexander Graham Bell Society – ($100,000 – $249,999)

Anonymous
Bimal K. Bose
Burns & McDonnell ^
Alberta M. Dawson Larsen ^
Axel N. Eliasen
John W. Estey
Finn Partners *
Clinton R. Gilliland ^
James O. Gray Fieldbus Foundation Scholarship Fund
Keithley Instruments, Inc.
Raymond S. Larsen ^
Peter A. Lewis ^
MathWorks
McMurtry Family Foundation
NEC Corporation
Pearson
Emerson W. Pugh
James C. Rautio
Ulrich L. Rohde ^
S&C Electric Company
Edmund O. Schweitzer
Sony Corporation
Robert W. Steenberge ^
The Boeing Company
The Dorsey & Whitney Foundation
The Motorola Solutions Foundation
The Royal Society of Edinburgh
Sandra M. Willard
Wolong
James Wong
Norman Zada
ShivKrupa

Nikola Tesla Society – ($25,000 – $99,999)

Anonymous
George B. Adams *
Alstom Grid
Edward E. Altshuler
Esther Antler
Eleanor Baum + *
Murty P. Bhavaraju
Virginia A. Birdsall
Gina Burk
Terri L. Craig
F. P. De Mello
Robert A. Dent
David L. Donoho *
Anthony Durniak
Marylyn Goutmann
Richard J. Gowen
Gale G. Hannigan
Donald N. Heirman
Narain G. Hingorani
David A. Hodges
John Impagliazzo +
Irwin M. Jacobs
Leah H. Jamieson +
Ronald J. Jaszczak
Gladys Knoll
Susumu Kobayashi
Aud Kristiansen *
Matthew S. Loeb
John D. McDonald *
James D. Meindl
Fred C. Mintzer + *
Raj Mittra
Seth Myers
Robert W. Newcomb
Roberto Padovani
Philips Electronics N.V.
E. J. Prendergast
Ramachandra Ramakumar
Peter W. Sauer *
Keith R. Schroeder
Donald R. Scifres
Ravi Seethapathy
Lotfollah Shafai
Robert D. Smith
Jerome J. Suran
Lewis M. Terman *
Gary L. Tooker
Orlin D. Trapp *
Andrew J. Viterbi
Stephen S. Yau

* New to Circle
^ Circle Upgrade
+ 2017 IEEE Foundation Board Member