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“Jacinda could be tapped by any number of United Nations, or charitable, or philanthropical, or other kinds of organizations,” Hoadley said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 19, 2023

From 1985 to 1999, Mr. Ross was director of the Rockefeller Family Fund, a philanthropical organization founded by the heirs of oil company executive John D. Rockefeller.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2022

“A circle of like-minded philanthropical ladies, meeting, as was their habit, at Dr. Bombay’s Underwater Tea Party in Candler Park.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 22, 2019

ExxonMobil heads the list with a donation of between $1m and $5m that it claimed was purely philanthropical.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015

A people’s library was founded by members of the family of Dickson, several of whom have taken a prominent part in philanthropical works in the city.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various