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Major Giving  Recognition Societies
The Lifetime Giving Societies honor those exceptional donors who have made total lifetime commitments of $100,000 or more to Johns Hopkins.
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Johns Hopkins Founder's Society
$7 million and above
A bequest of $7 million from merchant Johns Hopkins established the University and the Hospital, a remarkable legacy that was the largest single act of private philanthropy in the United States up to that time.
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Daniel Coit Gilman Society
$3 million to $6,999,999
The University's first president, Daniel Coit Gilman, provided the vision that made Johns Hopkins the nation's first true research university.
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Milton S. Eisenhower Society
$1 million to $2,999,999
Milton S. Eisenhower, eighth president of the University, is recognized as an outstanding educator and leader. He was noted for a capacity to view problems with a singular clarity and from the broadest possible perspective.
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Mary Elizabeth Garrett Society
$500,000 to $999,999
As the founder and core member of the Women's Fund Committee that raised the $500,000 endowment needed to establish the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Mary Elizabeth Garrett gave 70% of the total. Her Baltimore friends and associates -- joined by women throughout the United States -- presented their gift on condition that the School of Medicine admit women on the same terms as men. The School opened in 1893 as the first major U.S. medical school to admit women and quickly became a national model for medical education.
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Woodrow Wilson Society
$100,000 to $499,999
The 28th president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson is the only American commander-in-chief to have earned a Ph.D., which was awarded in 1886 by Johns Hopkins University. President Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919, the first of more than two dozen Johns Hopkins-affiliated Nobel winners.
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