Gary Magness
Profile Summary
Gary Magness is a U.S. media-industry billionaire born in 1954 and based in Colorado, with an estimated net worth of ~$1.4 billion RTB.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists Gary D. Magness as a reporting person with 26 insider-related filings, including filings connected to Workhorse Group Inc., General Communication Inc., and GCI Inc. SEC EDGAR Recent records include Form 3/A, an amended initial statement of beneficial ownership; Forms 4 and 4/A, which report insider securities transactions and amendments; Form 5, an annual insider transaction report; and Schedule 13D filings, which disclose ownership of more than 5% of a company and related amendments SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Gary Magness Family Foundation in Denver reported $2,100,334 in total assets and $312,468 in grants paid for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. It reported $192 in revenue and $326,111 in total expenses that year ProPublica 990.
Political Activity
FEC records show 15 contributions totaling $11,433 from 1980 through 2023 FEC. The party breakdown was $5,400 to Republican recipients, $5,200 with no party listed, $500 to Democratic recipients, and $333 classified as unknown FEC. The largest listed recipients were Marianne Williamson for Congress ($5,200), Aadland for Colorado ($2,900), John McCain 2008 Inc. ($1,000), Friends of Senator Don Nickles ($1,000), and Andy Coats for U.S. Senate ($500) 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.
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $11,433.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source.