Jack Dangermond
American businessman and founder of ESRI
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
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Jack Dangermond is an American businessman, born in 1945, who founded ESRI and is associated with the technology industry. His estimated net worth is ~$14.1B Wikidata. He is a signatory to the Giving Pledge Wikidata.
Political Activity
FEC records show at least 100 federal contributions in the most recent 100 records on file, covering only a sampled period from 2017-03-23 to 2026-03-03. Those sampled contributions total $452,600: $186,100 to Democratic recipients, $146,800 to Republican recipients, and $119,700 with an unknown party designation; the largest listed recipients were the Democratic National Committee ($100,000), NRCC ($90,000), CA LUV PAC ($45,800), Eureka Political Action Committee ($40,000), and Ken Calvert for Congress Committee ($27,000) FEC.
These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
In the News
A June 12, 2026, Directions Magazine article reported that Dangermond received the IFCE Green Development and Sustainability Award NewsAPI.
U.S. Presence
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 183 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $452,600.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
Giving score
Not graded — insufficient data
We hold no charitable giving record for this person that we can count toward a score: no foundation filing we can tie to them and no sourced record of their direct giving. A gift reported elsewhere on this page, in the news or the summary, is not one we have recorded as a giving record yet. Without a record, a score would reflect how much data we hold about them and any Giving Pledge signature rather than recorded giving, so we do not give one. That says nothing about how much they give.
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