The Largest Donation

The Largest Donation made to an AIDS Organizations

Fifteen percent of the $25-million Michael Bennett estate. When director-choreographer Michael Bennett died as a result of AIDS in July 1987, he fifteen percent of his estate to be distributed to organizations “involved in the research of or the cure or treatment of patients afflicted with the disease known as AIDS.” Previously, the largest receipt to been from the profits from Dionne Warwick’s recording “that’s what friends are for” which went to the American Foundation of AIDS Research (AmFAR)