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Emerson Collective

Laurene Powell Jobs’s LLC, which gives, invests and publishes.

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Inside Philanthropy says it hosts no grants database. Its website says that anonymous giving is “in keeping with our view of the proper spirit of giving and to honor the work of our grantees,” as Inside Philanthropy quotes it.

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  • Philanthropic LLC 2011 Scholarship & press 23

    The Colorado report is the Colorado Sun’s, as the Chronicle reports it; the story did not read the Sun’s piece or the company’s reply.

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  1. 2011 Laurene Powell Jobs founded Emerson Collective
  2. 2011 Emerson Collective adopted Philanthropic LLC
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  1. These 6 Major Funders Are LLCs, Not Foundations, Inside Philanthropy, 23 Apr 2026. Scholarship & press
    Founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs, Emerson Collective has backed important work, but is among the least transparent of the major philanthropic LLCs.
  2. Emerson Collective, Inside Philanthropy, 26 Jun 2025. Scholarship & press
    the Emerson Collective is a limited liability corporation (LLC)
    The Emerson Collective’s website states that this type of anonymous giving is “in keeping with our view of the proper spirit of giving and to honor the work of our grantees.”
  3. Who Will Get Laurene Powell Jobs’s $3.5 Billion Gift for Climate Work?, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (with the Associated Press), 18 Oct 2021. Scholarship & press
    She collected data every five years but halted her research in 2015 as LLCs — like Zuckerberg’s CZI and Emerson — became more prominent donors.
    Without having them represented in the data that I was trying to collect and analyze, it would be an extremely incomplete picture of what’s going on,
    Emerson’s grants also drew some scrutiny last year when a report by the Colorado Sun revealed the company used the Silicon Valley Community Foundation to secretly pass through a donation to Colorado Governor Jared Polis that allowed him to hire a special adviser on immigrants and refugees.
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