Frank Batten Sr. gift list

Since the mid-1990s, Frank Batten Sr., who died Sept. 10, 2009, at age 82, had donated more than $223 million to schools and other educational organizations. Here are some of them:

1999
Gives $60 million in 1999 to the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia.

2000
Gives $10 million to Virginia Wesleyan College.

2003
Gives $32 million each to Old Dominion University in Norfolk and Harvard Business School; $20.8 million to Culver Academies in Indiana; $20 million to the Norfolk Foundation; $11.3 million to the College of William and Mary; $11.2 million to Virginia Wesleyan.

2003
The Tidewater Scholarship Foundation's ACCESS Program (now called the ACCESS College Foundation), which helps students from local high schools go to college, also receives $11.2 million from the Battens.

2006
Gives $7 million to the Virginia Zoo and $1 million gift to Tidewater Community College.

2007
Gives $100 million to U.Va. to begin the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.

2008
Gives $20 million to help develop a new main public library in downtown Norfolk

2008
Gives up to $70 million to Culver Academies.

Compiled by Jakon Hays and Maureen Watts, Pilot news researchers