17 Facts About Barre Seid

Barre Seid was born on 1932 and is an American businessman from Chicago.

Barre Seid was the owner of Tripp Lite, an electrical products manufacturer.

Barre Seid was born in 1932 to Reuben and Anne Barre Seid, who were Russian Jewish immigrants.

Barre Seid attended the University of Chicago under a special bachelor's degree program.

In 2010, Barre Seid was given an honorary degree by Israel's Bar-Ilan University.

Barre Seid then returned to Chicago to take a job as an assistant to investor and businessman Graham Trippe, owner of Trippe Manufacturing.

Barre Seid held that position for more than 50 years.

Barre Seid gave at least $775 million in charitable donations between 1996 and 2018.

Barre Seid opposed the ban of DDT and funded activists and researchers who opposed the ban.

Barre Seid's giving reflects his belief that global warming is not the result of human emissions.

Barre Seid has donated to the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics and the Heartland Institute.

In 2020, Barre Seid donated all Tripp Lite stock to the newly created nonprofit group Marble Freedom Trust headed by Leonard Leo, a conservative legal activist.

The donation was made anonymously, but Barre Seid's identity was first confirmed by The New York Times based on public financial disclosures.

From 2007 to 2008, Barre Seid gave $825,000 to Shimer College as an anonymous donor through his foundation.

Barre Seid's donation was later made public by a former student who examined tax filings.

In 1976, he established the Adrienne Gruber Barre Seid Memorial Scholarship at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in memory of his late wife, who was a student there in the early 1960s.

Barre Seid has used the pseudonym Ebert or Elbert Howell.