Jon Lloyd Stryker was born on c 1958 and is an American architect, philanthropist, and billionaire heir to the Stryker Corporation medical technology company fortune.
38 Facts About Jon Stryker
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Jon Stryker is the youngest grandchild of Homer Hartman Stryker, founder of the medical supply company Stryker Corporation.
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Jon Stryker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in biology from Kalamazoo College in 1982.
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Jon Stryker now serves on the college's Board of Trustees and was the recipient of the college's 2010 Distinguished Service Award.
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Jon Stryker received a Master of Architecture degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Jon Stryker is a registered architect in Michigan and is president of Depot Landmark LLC, a development company specializing in the rehabilitation of historic buildings.
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Jon Stryker is a founding board member of Greenleaf Trust, a privately owned bank in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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Jon Stryker is the founder and president of the Arcus Foundation, a private international philanthropic organization primarily supporting great ape conservation efforts and LGBT causes, as well as other social justice endeavors.
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Jon Stryker was named one of the nation's Top 50 donors by the Chronicle of Philanthropy every year from 2006 to 2012 and again in 2014.
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Jon Stryker was named to Forbes' list of America's Top 50 Givers in 2018.
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In 2017, Jon Stryker donated $1.275 Million to expand Virgin Islands National Park with the purchase of an 11.8-acre property on St John, US Virgin Islands.
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Jon Stryker is a donor of The New York Community Trust, which announced in 2020 that it would donate $75 million to the city's social services and cultural non-profit organizations that were affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jon Stryker, who is openly gay, is one of the world's leading philanthropic donors to the LGBT community.
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In 2015, Jon Stryker spearheaded, together with Jurek Wajdowicz, the ongoing international series of LGBT-themed photography books published by The New Press.
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Jon Stryker is one of the leading funders of great ape conservation efforts around the world.
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Jon Stryker is a founding board member of the Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy, a 90,000-acre not-for-profit wildlife conservancy in central Kenya's Laikipia County.
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Jon Stryker is the co-founder and Board Chair of Save the Chimps, the world's largest chimpanzee sanctuary located in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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In 2023, Jon Stryker joined the Jane Goodall Legacy Foundation's Council for Hope.
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Jon Stryker has made significant contributions in the name of conservation and social justice causes to his hometown of Kalamazoo, Michigan, and his alma maters Kalamazoo College and the University of California at Berkeley.
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In 2000, Jon Stryker established the Arcus Endowment at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design.
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In 2016, Jon Stryker was named the inaugural recipient of the college's Catherine Bauer Wurster Award for Social Practice.
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In January 2012, Jon Stryker's foundation awarded a $23 million endowment grant to support the center's operations and programming into the future.
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Jon Stryker makes contributions in support of the college's study abroad programs and enrollment diversity efforts.
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In 2001, Jon Stryker made a $5 million grant in support of the college's highly ranked study abroad programs.
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In 2018, Jon Stryker donated $20 million to Kalamazoo College to establish a 10-year scholarship program for students of color, first-generation students and those from lower-income families.
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Jon Stryker has donated $66 million to the college in total.
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In 2015, Jon Stryker donated 22-acres of land running along the west fork of Portage Creek in Kalamazoo, Michigan, to the Kalamazoo Nature Center.
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Previously, Stryker donated to the school's L Lee Stryker Learning Hall, named for his father, and the Stryker family played a critical role in funding the medical school, which is named to honor Stryker's grandfather, Dr Homer Stryker.
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In 2017, Jon Stryker joined the board of trustees of The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
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From 2018 to 2021, Jon Stryker served on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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Jon Stryker married his long-time partner Slobodan Randjelovic in December 2016.
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Jon Stryker previously owned a Mediterranean-style house in Palm Beach, Florida, designed by famed American architect Marion Sims Wyeth.
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In June 2010, Jon Stryker expanded the property where the house sits by purchasing an adjoining ocean-access lot that included the former residence of Jimmy Buffett and Jane Buffett for $18.5 million.
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Jon Stryker owns multiple properties in his native Kalamazoo, and is credited with built-space revitalization efforts in the city.
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Jon Stryker unknowingly purchased the commercial building that once housed his grandfather's Orthopedic Frame Co.
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Jon Stryker maintains a home in Garrison, New York, along the Hudson River.
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In June 2013, Jon Stryker purchased the 129-acre property and placed it under a conservation easement to protect against any future development of the riverfront land.
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Jon Stryker briefly owned an apartment in the Time Warner Center in New York City's Columbus Circle before selling it in 2007.