Pierre Omidyar
American entrepreneur and philanthropist; founder of eBay
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
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Pierre Omidyar is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded eBay. He has an estimated net worth of ~$8.1B Wikidata.
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 100 insider-related filings connected to Omidyar, involving eBay and PayPal. Recent filings include Form 4 reports, which disclose an insider's transactions in company securities, and Schedule 13G filings and amendments, which report certain large ownership positions SEC EDGAR.
Philanthropy
Pierre and Pam Omidyar have given over $4B since founding Omidyar Network in 2004, according to Omidyar Network; the reported annual giving figure is $181,818,182 RTB. Omidyar Network uses an LLC-plus-foundation structure, and the data notes that much of its giving does not have attributable Form 990 filings. Omidyar is a Giving Pledge signatory RTB.
Political Activity
Federal records show 60 contributions totaling $1,692,600 from July 8, 1999, through March 18, 2024. The party breakdown was $1,545,300 categorized as Unknown, $143,300 to Democratic recipients, and $4,000 to Republican recipients FEC. Major listed recipients include the ACLU Voter Education Fund ($1,000,000), Never Means Never PAC ($250,000), Not Who We Are PAC ($200,000), the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee ($71,700), and eBay Inc.-Committee for Responsible Internet Commerce ($55,000) 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.
U.S. Presence
Direct Giving
Pierre and Pam Omidyar have given over $4B since founding Omidyar Network in 2004 — an LLC-plus-foundation structure, so much files no attributable 990.
Direct gifts made outside a private foundation (no 990 filing) — counted in the giving score.
Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $1,692,600.
Top Recipients
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
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. View on Wikidata