Dolly Parton

Health and research

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A recipient-confirmed research gift illustrates a sourced transaction even when comprehensive lifetime data is unavailable.

Documented record (USD)

$1M

One documented completed gift, April 2020; not a lifetime total

Giving share

Unknown

No compatible net-worth observation in this preview.

Annual giving (2026)

Unknown

No current-year paid total verified.

Private impact

Unknown

Unknown is not zero.

Scope, period, as-of

Scope: Recipient reported completed personal gift. Period: Single COVID-19 research gift. As of: 2020-04. Remaining net worth: Unknown.

VUMC explicitly attributes a previous completed $1M April 2020 gift to Parton. Other gifts are not rolled into this transaction.

The 2022 source also announces another $1M gift using present-progressive wording. This seed conservatively counts only the explicitly completed previous 2020 gift.

Sources

S01 Dolly Parton donates $1 million to pediatric infectious disease research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt University Medical Center · 2022-06-15 · primary_recipient_statement “Parton made a previous $1 million gift to VUMC in April 2020” A completed, attributable research gift. This is not a total lifetime giving number.

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