Legacy Updates

As information is received from beneficiaries, we will post short updates here, along with attachments to more complete information.  Inquiries are welcome.

Weiland Estate beneficiaries include:

$46m to a donor advised fund at the Pride Foundation to be distributed to LGBT organizations that include: Lambda Legal Defense, the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG), Project Inform, In the Life Media, the Service Members Legal Defense Network (SLDN), the Task Force (NGLTF), and the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commision (ILGHRC)

$45m to Stanford University (plus another $15m in stock gifts and unmet pledges)

$19.2m to the Pride Foundation

$8m to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center

$8m to the United Way of King County

$8m to Seattle Children's Hospital

$6.4m to the Nature Conservancy of Washington State

$6.4m to the Nature Conservancy's Global Programs

$3.2m to the Lakeside School

$3.2m to Environmental Defense Fund

$3.2m to National Wildlife Federation

$3.2m to the Sierra Club Foundation

Weiland Conference Room: Audubon Environmental Center, Seward Park/Seattle

Ric was not a "bricks and mortar" donor and there are only two conference rooms named to acknowledge his family's  philanthropy (the other is at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center).  The main floor conference room in the newly refurbished Audubon Environmental Center was walking distance from Ric's childhood home - and in his day was the local ice cream hangout.  Today the room can host about 35 people and is open to the public.