This story appears in the January 18, 2015 issue of Forbes. Subscribe
Among the many perks of being a billionaire: your choice of spots on the boards of the nation's prominent companies and nonprofits. Which ones have the most Forbes 400 members around the table? Relationship Science analyzed our list of the 400 wealthiest Americans and compiled data on all their corporate and nonprofit board memberships.
TOP COMPANIES
5 Forbes 400 members ($70.2 billion total net worth)
Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt, John Doerr, Kavitark Ram Shriram
Berkshire Hathaway
4 ($160.9 billion)
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Walter Scott Jr., David Gottesman
Apollo Global Management
4 ($14.2 billion)
Leon Black, Robert Kraft, Joshua Harris, Marc Rowan
Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo
4 ($11.7 billion)
Jeffrey Hildebrand, Tilman Fertitta, Robert McNair, Drayton McLane
National Basketball Association
4 ($14.4 billion)
Micky Arison, Mark Cuban, Herbert Simon, Glen Taylor
The Museum of Modern Art
12 Forbes 400 members ($50.6 billion total net wealth)
Ronald Perelman, Eli Broad, Leon Black, Jerry Speyer, Ronald Lauder, Joan Tisch, David Rockefeller Sr., Noam Gottesman, Sid Bass, Thomas Lee, Glenn Dubin, Pete Peterson
Robin Hood Foundation
10 ($43.3 billion)
Steve Cohen, David Tepper, Dirk Ziff, Paul Tudor Jones, Daniel Och, Stanley Druckenmiller, Glenn Dubin, David Einhorn, Larry Robbins, William Ackman
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
9 ($53.5 billion)
Ronald Perelman, Stephen Schwarzman, Philip Anschutz, Herbert Kohler Jr., David Rubenstein, Ron Burkle, Romesh T. Wadhwani, Elaine Wynn, Marilyn Carlson Nelson
Conservation International
8 ($74.2 billion)
S. Robson Walton, Laurene Powell Jobs, Gordon Moore, William Wrigley, Victor Fung, Robert Fisher, Stewart and Lynda Resnick
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
8 ($66.2 billion)
David Koch, Stephen Ross, Bruce Kovner, Daniel Och, Julian Robertson, David
Rubenstein, James Dinan, Thomas Lee
The Partnership for New York City
8 ($60 billion)
Rupert Murdoch, John Paulson, Stephen Schwarzman, Richard LeFrak, Henry Kravis, Jerry Speyer, Mortimer Zuckerman, Wilbur Ross
Net worths as of December 22.
SOURCE:Relationship Science (RelSci). www.relsci.com.
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