Christy Walton
$38 billion
- Profiled by Condé Nast Portfolio magazine in The Giving Index, she is ranked as the highest female philanthropist according to the amount she gives as a percentage of her wealth.
Christy Walton is the wealthiest woman the world, $1 billion wealthier than L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt. Christy married into what is now the richest family in the world (The Walton family still hold more than half the Walmart shares and are worth a combined total of US$152b.) and inherited her wealth when husband John Walton, a former Green Beret and Vietnam war medic, died in an airplane crash in 2005. She's the wealthiest of the Waltons thanks to a side investment by John that turned into a major score: solar energy company First Solar.
Alice Walton
$34.9 billion
Alice Walton is one of the heirs of the Wal-Mart fortune, founded by her father Sam back in 1962. With her billions, Alice has long focused on curating art, culminating in the opening of the Crystal Bridges Art Museum in her hometown of Bentonville, Ark., in 2011. This year, she reportedly agreed to purchase a New Jersey home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and have it moved down to the museum's campus.
Jacqueline Mars
$22 billion
Jacqueline Mars and her two brothers, Forrest Jr. and John, own the secretive ($33 billion) candy maker Mars. All three siblings serve on its board of directors, but the family has no role in day-to-day operations. Their grandfather Frank started Mars in 1911 in his Tacoma, Washington kitchen.
Laurene Powell Jobs
$16.6 billion
Laurene Powell Jobs is making more of a name for herself as a political and social influencer, three years after the death of her husband Steve Jobs. She is the founder and chair of the Emerson Collective, an organization that focuses on using entrepreneurship to advance social reform and help under-resourced students, and College Track, a nonprofit college completion program. Powell Jobs is among the top donors to Ready for Hillary, a super PAC that has already raised some $6 million to support a Hillary Clinton presidential run.
Anne Cox Chambers
$16.1 billion
Board member and majority owner of Cox Enterprises, with revenues of nearly $16 billion from cable TV, broadband, newspapers, radio stations and online car sales, among other businesses. Her father, James M. Cox (d. 1957), founded the group in 1898 when he purchased the Dayton Evening News.
Abigail Johnson
$13.3 billion
Heir apparent at Fidelity, Johnson has studied the business at the feet of her CEO father, Edward Johnson, III. , including serving as president for the past two years. (Dad had the same job before replacing his father, Edward Johnson II, the company’s founder.) Abigail began working at Fidelity before she even started college—working as a gofer in the summer before her freshman year at Hobart and William Smith, taking down telephone orders. She joined the firm full-time in 1988.
Blair Parry-Okeden
$8 billion
Siblings each got 25% stake in media giant Cox Enterprises in 2007 when their mother, Barbara Cox Anthony, died. Jim Kennedy, who is chairman, is turning Cox into a car megabrand: It bought back 25% of AutoTrader.com this year. Sister Blair lives in Australia and has no role in company.
Dannine Avara
$7 billion
Sister to Randa Williams and Milane Frantz, with as many shares. Not involved in the company.
Milane Frantz
$7 billion
Sister to Randa Williams and Dannine Avara, with as many shares. Not involved in the company. Sits on the board of the Hermann Park Conservancy in Houston and the Baylor College of Medicine Board of Trustees.
Nancy Walton Laurie
$4.2 billion
Daughter of Bud Walton (d. 1995), who cofounded Wal-Mart with his brother Sam, inherited Wal-Mart shares. She also owns Missouri’s Providence Bank and founded a performing arts school in Columbia, Mo.
Elaine Wynn
$2.3 Billion; Age 71
Elaine Wynn cofounded casino empire Wynn Resorts with ex-husband Steve three decades ago and still sits on the board.
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