Last Updated: 28 Mar, 2024 | Views: 306
Age: 79
Profession: Business Men
Famous For: Executive chairman, Kinder Morgan
Higher Education: University of Missouri (BA, JD)
Net Worth: $7.2 Billion
About (Profile/Biography):
Richard Kinder was born October 19, 1944. Richard Kinder is an American businessman. Richard Kinder is the co-founder and executive chairman of Kinder Morgan Inc., an energy and pipeline corporation. Richard Kinder received a BA in 1966 and a JD in 1968, both from the University of Missouri. In college, he was a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity.
Richard Kinder Career:
Richard Kinder Founded For Kinder Foundation:
• Richard Kinderfounded the Kinder Foundation in an effort to support Greater Houston as a model city for economic.
• Richard Kinderisproviding transformation grants in the areas of urban green space, education and quality of life.
Richard Kinder Supports the Community Development
• Kinder Foundation actively supports the community development and preservation of Houston’s historic Third Ward.
• It provided $750,000 for the Emancipation Park Conservancy’s rededication of Emancipation Park in 2016, $2 million in 2018 to PRH Preservation, Inc. to maintain and enhance existing buildings.
Richard Kinder Work As Urban Greenspace
• Along with several other Houston philanthropies, Kinder Foundation founded Discovery Green, downtown Houston’s notable 12-acre park, in 2008.
• Richard Kinderapproached then-Mayor Bill White with an idea to acquire the Houston Center Gardens adjacent to downtown Houston’s George R. Brown Convention Center property.
Richard Kinder Work For Education Field
• A $25 million grant from the Kinder Foundation to the University of Missouri in October 2015 went to establish the university’s Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy.
• The foundation granted an additional $10 million to support new degree opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy and the College of Arts and Science.
Richard Kinder Involved in Political Activities
• In 2015, Richard Kinderand his wife Nancy donated $2 million to a Super PAC supporting Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush.
• Richard Kindergave an additional $25 million in November 2022 to expand faculty and popular program offerings.
Richard Kinder Unknown Facts:
• Support and rename the Kinder Institute: Through the foundation, Richard Kinderdonated $15 million to Rice University in 2010 to support and rename the Kinder Institute for Urban Research.
• Announced a $50 million gift: In January 2015, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston announced a $50 million gift from the Kinder Foundation for the redevelopment of the museum’s 14-acre campus.
