The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Heising-Simons and the Ballmer Group are among the philanthropies that in part fund Times education coverage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
“A lot of the big philanthropies, you know, they’ll spend inordinate amounts of resources trying to retire a handful of coal plants in one country,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
The Oracle of Omaha reiterated his support for his successor Greg Abel, and said he would step up the pace of gifts to his three children’s philanthropies.
From Barron's ● Nov. 11, 2025
Their targets include billionaire George Soros, whose Open Society Foundations are among the country’s largest philanthropies, and the Ford Foundation, another of the nation’s top grantmakers.
From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2025
So they founded philanthropies to give part of it away.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
