Laurene Powell Jobs

Laurene Powell Jobs is an American business executive, philanthropist, and political activist based in California, with an estimated net worth of ~$18.6B Wikidata. She is identified in the data as a billionaire heiress and philanthropist Wikidata.

Business & SEC Activity

The available data does not include detailed business holdings or operating-company roles. News coverage in the dataset links her to investment activity, including a reported film project and broader family-office interest in AI investments, but those articles do not provide specific transaction details for her personally NewsAPI.

Philanthropy

Her foundations reported total grants paid of $5,395,812 in 2023 and 2022, with total foundation assets of $6,652,905 across the listed entities ProPublica 990. The Jobs Foundation reported $4,607,345 in grants paid on $5,912,055 of assets in 2023, the Ada Jobs Foundation reported $785,994 in grants paid on $693,453 of assets in 2023, and the Oakland Jobs Foundation reported $2,473 in grants paid on $47,397 of assets in 2022 ProPublica 990.

Political Activity

Federal Election Commission records show $4,295,500 in contributions from 2023-09-20 to 2025-09-26 FEC. Of that total, $1,443,500 was categorized as DEM and $2,852,000 as PAC/Other, with the largest recipients including the Harris Victory Fund ($1,852,000), HMP ($1,000,000), and the Democratic National Committee's services corporation ($536,900) FEC.

In the News

Recent coverage in the dataset focuses on her reported backing of a climate-change-related film project and broader family-office investment trends, including AI NewsAPI. Other items are commentary or unrelated headlines, and one article contains an unverified allegation; the dataset does not provide corroborating evidence for that claim NewsAPI.