Which companies and individuals are listed as donors to the White House ballroom and what, if anything, have they publicly acknowledged giving?
Executive summary
The White House released a list of 37 corporate and individual donors who are funding President Trump’s privately financed ballroom project, a roster that mixes Big Tech, defense contractors, crypto billionaires, longtime GOP patrons and wealthy neighbors; however, almost none of the donors publicly disclosed exact dollar amounts and only a handful have acknowledged specific payments [1] [2] [3]. The clearest, repeatedly reported public acknowledgment is that Alphabet/YouTube will put $22 million toward the project as part of a legal settlement; most other donors either declined to specify amounts, gave noncommittal statements about routing gifts through the Trust for the National Mall, or remain opaque while some names have been reported as withheld or not yet publicly confirmed [4] [5] [6].
1. Who appears on the 37-donor list and the broad categories they represent
The names provided by the White House and reported across major outlets include major technology firms — Amazon, Apple, Alphabet/YouTube, Microsoft, Meta — as well as defense and government-contracting companies such as Lockheed Martin, Booz Allen Hamilton and Palantir; communications and media companies like T‑Mobile and Comcast; crypto investors and executives including Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss and Coinbase; wealthy GOP donors such as Miriam Adelson and Stephen Schwarzman; energy and oil figures like Harold Hamm; and private individuals including Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and family and Chicago entrepreneur Konstantin Sokolov [2] [5] [7] [8] [9].
2. The lone explicit dollar figure publicized: Alphabet / YouTube’s $22 million
Multiple outlets trace a concrete pledge to Alphabet/YouTube: as part of a legal settlement around Trump’s 2021 YouTube suspension, YouTube/Alphabet agreed to a $24.5 million settlement with $22 million earmarked to support the ballroom project via the Trust for the National Mall, a detail spelled out in reporting by Time, Al Jazeera and others [4] [10] [5].
3. Firms that have acknowledged involvement but not amounts
Several corporations publicly confirmed they are donors without specifying sums: outlets report that Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Palantir, Micron, Coinbase, Lockheed and Comcast were listed by the White House and that many of those companies declined to disclose the size of their contributions when asked [11] [2] [5]. T‑Mobile told CBS News it gave to the Trust for the National Mall but insisted it had “no role in the use of those funds or decisions related to the construction” [5].
4. Donors who accepted invitations and symbolic recognition but kept financial details private
The White House hosted a donors’ dinner and invited corporate representatives from firms such as Google, Amazon and Lockheed Martin, which signals public recognition of support even where monetary transparency is missing; reporting emphasizes the administration provided a donor list but largely withheld per-donor amounts [12] [2] [1].
5. Crypto, finance and individual patrons: named but tight-lipped
Crypto billionaires (the Winklevoss twins), prominent financiers (Stephen Schwarzman, Harold Hamm, Miriam Adelson), and private individuals tied to the administration or to Trump’s social orbit are on the list, yet most have not publicly broken out specific donations — a pattern noted across AP, CNN, The Guardian and TIME coverage [1] [7] [4] [2].
6. Names reported as withheld and transparency disputes
Reporting and compiled sources note the White House initially withheld some donor names or has been slow to disclose full details; Wikipedia and The New York Times reporting flagged reportedly withheld donors including BlackRock, Nvidia and investor Jeff Yass, while Senate Democrats and oversight voices have pressed for clearer accounting of who gave what and whether donors received any promised recognition or access [6] [13] [1].
7. What donors have publicly acknowledged giving — the narrow truth
Factually, the only consistently documented monetary acknowledgment across the available reporting is Alphabet/YouTube’s $22 million commitment from that settlement; a few firms have publicly confirmed they appear on the donor list or that they routed gifts through the Trust for the National Mall, but the White House and most donors have not disclosed per-donor amounts so virtually all other contributions remain unspecified in public records cited by news outlets [4] [3] [1].