List of the 600 largest Philanthropy Single Family Offices [2025]

List of 3 large philanthropy single-family offices

Philanthropy is another important focus for many family offices, alongside wealth management and building a lasting family legacy. Family offices use philanthropy to contribute to social, cultural, and environmental goals through foundations, donor-advised funds, or direct giving. Overall, the philanthropic activities of family offices are often central to their strategy and often involve large sums of money. We have analyzed our global family office database for philanthropy-related keywords. In the following, we are presenting you three interesting family offices from the list.

1. Flora Family Office Foundation (United States)

The Flora Family Foundation is a philanthropic family office that was created by the Hewlett family in 1998. William R. Hewlett was the co-founder of the famous technology firm Hewlett-Packard. The foundation is named after Hewlett’s wife, Flora Lamson Hewlett. The foundation is mainly active in grantmaking and impact investing. Important topics for the family office are, amongst others, climate protection, marine conservation and black maternal health.

2. Van Leer Group (Netherlands)

The Van Leer group is a Dutch single-family office that oversees an investment portfolio targeted to support three different foundations and non-profit organizations. These are, in detail, the Bernard van Leer Foundation, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and the Jerusalem Film Center. The Bernard van Leer Foundation is focused on improving the health and well-being of “babies, toddlers and the people who care for them”.

3. BVC Ventures (India)

BVC Ventures is an Indian single-family office that mainly invests in jewellery, logistics, and tech ventures. The wealth of the family behind the family office is based on BVC Logistics, a leading Indian logistics firm. The philanthropic activities are the firm are bundled within the BVC Foundation, which was founded in 2001. The foundation mainly supports healthcare and education projects.

Keyword Crawler Methodology

Searching our entire database manually for philanthropic keywords would be impossible due to its size. Therefore, we have developed a Python-based search tool that makes our work easier. The process behind it is a three-step procedure.

1. Similar to a Google crawler, our tool searches each family office website from our database for subpages.
2. We then check each of the previously identified subpages to see whether they contain philanthropy keywords. The number of keywords is counted and compared to the total number of words on the page. This allows us to calculate various statistics (see below) and highlight the most important subpages.
3. Comparing the results allows us to create a specific list for your area of interest. We have crawled the family office websites for the keywords:
4. We have crawled the family office websites for the keywords:

• philanthropy
• philanthropic
• donations
• foundation

The most often found keyword was “foundation” with over 20,000 occurrences.

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