Marc Benioff
American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist
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Profile Summary
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Marc Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist, born in 1964, with an estimated net worth of ~$9.1B. He is associated with Salesforce, Inc. (CRM), a technology company. Wikidata
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR identifies Benioff as an insider connected to Salesforce, Inc. (CRM). His SEC record includes 1,000 insider filings, with recent Form 4 filings dated from October 2025 through April 2026; Form 4 is the disclosure insiders use to report transactions in their company’s securities. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
Benioff is a signatory to the Giving Pledge. RTB
Political Activity
FEC records show at least 100 federal contributions in the most recent 100 records on file, totaling $363,782.66 from June 30, 2016 through October 15, 2025; these sampled records are not his complete contribution history. The sampled total breaks down as $196,882.66 to recipients with unknown party designation, $144,500 to Democratic recipients, and $22,400 to Republican recipients. His largest listed recipients in the sample were the DCCC ($67,300), Californians for Opportunity ($50,000), the Nancy Pelosi Victory Fund ($44,300), Rhode Island Senate Victory 2018 ($39,300), and the DSCC ($33,900). 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
Recent coverage included reports on Salesforce’s AI-related results and a report that Benioff backed a global effort to conserve and restore 1 trillion trees, with later climate giving reported at $300 million. NewsAPI
U.S. Presence
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 218 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 $363,782.66.
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.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
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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