Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and Cornell University’s most generous donor, died Oct. 9 in San Francisco. He was 92.
There will soon be a second “Feeney Way” at Cornell: a central thoroughfare at Cornell Tech to be named in honor of the transformative impact and legacy of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, the university’s most generous donor.
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President Martha E. Pollack presented Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56, Cornell’s most generous donor, with a lifetime achievement award named in his honor during a virtual ceremony April 30.
April 23, 2021
Today, April 23, 2021, marks both the 90th birthday of Charles F. “Chuck” Feeney ’56 and the official unveiling of Feeney Way on Cornell’s Ithaca campus, honoring the man who has been called the university’s “third founder.”
Feeney, the founding chairman of The Atlantic Philanthropies and the university’s most generous donor, quietly devoted his fortune to worldwide causes for decades, and through the foundation invested nearly $1 billion in Cornell over a four-decade period.
His giving was anonymous for years and, even after the impact of his philanthropy was revealed in the late 1990s, Feeney still chose not to connect his name in any form to the many institutions he supported; consequently, until now, neither his name, nor Atlantic’s, had ever appeared on a building, program, scholarship, professorship or any other entity at Cornell.