philanthropist

noun

1. A person who loves humankind in general.
2. A person or institution who seeks to improve the world, especially by monetary gifts.

   “[…]and with a passing vague wonder as to what manner of man the ‘philanthropist’ might be who had more money than he knew what to do with,[…]”

   “He was a noted philanthropist, and played a public-spirited part in the support of the Army during the Crimean War.”

   “It is not uncommon for young philanthropists to retool their giving as they learn from their mistakes. Many other charities have only a single focus. But it has been jarring to allies of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to see such a wholesale discarding and downplaying of its prior work, especially given how public it had been about its goals.”