{"id":366580,"date":"2026-08-09T01:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366580\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T01:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T01:54:12","slug":"miami-billionaires-donate-millions-to-history-and-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366580\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami billionaires donate millions to history and wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two of Miami\u2019s wealthiest residents are directing major philanthropic gifts toward American history and endangered wildlife.<\/p>\n

Citadel CEO Ken Griffin and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced separate donations totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

\"Citadel Citadel Founder and CEO Ken Griffin recently donation for $26 million to help complete a private library for President Theodore Roosevelt in the Badlands in North Dakota. D.A. Varela dvarela@miamiherald.com <\/p>\n

FULL STORY: Two Miami billionaires just donated millions. Here\u2019s where the money is going<\/a><\/p>\n

Here are key takeaways:<\/p>\n

Griffin pledged $26 million to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library<\/a>, which opened in July in North Dakota\u2019s Badlands. The library\u2019s west wing will bear Griffin\u2019s name in recognition of the gift, one of the largest in the institution\u2019s history. \"Jeff Jeff Bezos has long been involved in conservation issues and is now joining force with actor Leonardo Di Caprio to help rescue endangered species. Bezos and his wife, Lauren Sanchez Bezos, are teaming up with actor and environmentalist Leonardo DiCaprio to launch the Phoenix Species Project, a $200 million initiative aimed at saving 100 of the world\u2019s most critically endangered species from extinction, Variety reported. \"Jeff Jeff Bezos has long been involved in conservation issues and is now joining force with actor Leonardo Di Caprio to help rescue endangered species. The organizations behind the Phoenix Species Project called it the largest single fund in history dedicated exclusively to recovering critically endangered species.Florida has dozens of native animals on federal and state endangered species lists, including the Florida panther, West Indian manatee, smalltooth sawfish, hawksbill sea turtle and Everglades snail kite. \"leonardo Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is joining forces with Miami billionaire Jeff Bezos to donate millions to try to save the world\u2019s endangered species. FREDERIC J. BROWN AFP via Getty Images Both billionaires have deep Miami ties: Griffin relocated Citadel\u2019s headquarters to the city in 2022, and Bezos made Miami his primary home after buying properties on Indian Creek Island in 2023 and 2024.<\/p>\n

This report was produced with the assistance of a proprietary tool powered by artificial intelligence and using our own originally reported, written and published content. It was reviewed and edited by our journalists.<\/p>\n


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Luisa Yanez covers real estate and the impact of wealth migration in South Florida for the Miami Herald. In her work, she will be using both traditional reporting and AI tools.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two of Miami\u2019s wealthiest residents are directing major philanthropic gifts toward American history and endangered wildlife. Citadel CEO…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366581,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-366580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}