Pierre Omidyar

The eBay founder pledged 250 million dollars in 2013 to create First Look Media, which launched The Intercept with Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras to report on the Snowden files. Actual spending fell well short of the pledge, and The Intercept was later spun off as an independent non-profit after deep cuts. His Omidyar Network and Democracy Fund have since become major funders of other newsrooms, so the record mixes a stumbling flagship with steady wider support.