Clippers owner Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, are donating more than $25 million through the Ballmer Group for COVID-19 relief efforts in Los Angeles, Seattle and Eastern Michigan, the organization announced Friday.
$10 million of that will be going to the University of Washington Medicine’s Emergency Response Fund to speed up testing for a possible coronavirus vaccine, according to the group through ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk.
As of the end of March, Ballmer was worth nearly $58 billion. He was ranked No. 9 in Forbes' most recent 400 ranking in terms of richest Americans.