Nicolas Berggruen
Profile Summary
Nicolas Berggruen is a California-based billionaire associated with the real estate industry, born in 1961. He has an estimated net worth of ~$2.9B RTB.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR records list 60 insider filings under Nicolas Berggruen's personal CIK, including filings connected to Platform Specialty Products Corp., Sunlink Health Systems, Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp., Promotora de Informaciones SA, and Franklin Martin E SEC EDGAR. The recent records include Form 3 filings, which report an initial ownership position, and Form 4 filings, which report changes in an insider's holdings; the listed filings run from July 2009 through January 2014 SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
The Nicolas Berggruen Charitable Foundation, based in Los Angeles, reported $11,095,566 in assets, $35,707 in revenue, $35,637 in expenses, and $35,637 in grants paid for tax year 2023 ProPublica 990. Berggruen is also listed as a signatory to the Giving Pledge Wikidata.
Political Activity
FEC records show 8 contributions totaling $93,300 from May 2000 through May 2009 FEC. The party breakdown was $64,800 to Democratic recipients and $28,500 categorized as Unknown; top listed recipients included the Obama Victory Fund ($28,500), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ($28,500), DNC Services Corporation/Democratic National Committee ($26,200), Friends of Schumer ($5,800), and Obama for America ($2,300) 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 $93,300.
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.