AFP Outstanding Philanthropist
This award is presented to an individual or family with a proven record of exceptional generosity who, through direct financial support, has demonstrated outstanding civic and charitable responsibility, and whose generosity encourages others to take philanthropic leadership roles on a community, national and / or international level. Your nomination should include the following information with specific examples:
- Evidence of direct gift support.
- Description of impact of gift support.
- Evidence of encouragement and motivation given to others to take leadership roles in philanthropy.
- Description of participation in and gift support of other not-for-profit organizations, in the community, nationally and / or internationally.
- Evidence of philanthropic support of innovative approaches to solving problems.
Past Honorees
Outstanding Philanthropist 2023 - Diane and John Scovell
| 2024 | Kelcy Warren |
| 2023 | Diane and John Scovell |
| 2022 | Jorge Baldor |
| 2021 | Kaleta Doolin |
| 2020 | Carl and Mary Ice |
| 2019 | Donna Wilhelm |
| 2018 | Jack D. Furst |
| 2017 | Sandra & Henry Estess |
| 2016 | Mike Myers |
| 2015 | Cecilia and Garrett Boone |
| 2014 | Katherine Perot Reeves |
| 2013 | Lyda Hill |
| 2012 | Abby & Todd Williams |
| 2011 | Diane & Hal Brierley |
| 2010 | The Hallam Family |
| 2009 | Mary and Mike Terry |
| 2008 | Charles & Dee Wyly |
| 2007 | Robert S. Folsom |
| 2006 | Nancy McMillan Dedman & T. Boone Pickens |
| 2005 | Louise Gartner |
| 2004 | Ray Nasher |
| 2003 | William and Margot Winspear |
| 2002 | Bob and Myrna Schlegel |
| 2001 | Jane and Jack Hamilton |
| 2000 | Robert J. Wright |
| 1999 | Linda Wertheimer Hart & Milledge A. Hart III |
| 1998 | Roger and Carolyn Horchow |
| 1997 | Dorothy Dee Collins Torbert |
| 1996 | Peter and Waldo Stewart |
| 1995 | Charles E. and Sarah M. Seay |
| 1994 | Louis A. Beecherl, Jr. |
| 1993 | Beatrice (Bea) Haggerty |
| 1992 | Nancy B. Hamon |
| 1991 | Mrs. Allen M. (Jeannette) Early |
| 1990 | Mrs. Edmund J. (Louise) Kahn |
| 1989 | Bill Barrett |
| 1988 | The Haggar Family |
| 1987 | Ida M. & Cecil H. Green *94 |
| 1986 | The Meadows Foundation |
| 1985 | H. Ross Perot *86 |
| 1984 | Ruth Sharp Altshuler *99 |
| 1983 | Theodore P. Beasley |
* Dallas Chapter Award honorees who became international AFP Awards for Philanthropy Honorees
