Just read an interesting article on an anonymous donor who just gave away $45M to help stimulate the economy in a trickle-down college grad effect.  Made the schools promise not to try and even find out who they were.

Very strange way of doing it, and questionable implications, but I still like the idea:

http://www.uscollegesearch.org/blog/college-life/mysterious-educational-superhero-donates-over-45m-to-college-campuses/