Top 15 Charitable Companies

6. Microsoft

The software company, Microsoft could give over $949 million out of its pretax profit of $23,150,000,000 in 2011. It invested 57.4 percent more in the year than in it did in 2010.

Microsoft the American MNC, develops, manufactures, licenses and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing. The company, founded by Bill Gates and Paul Allen on April 4, 1975, is the world’s largest software maker measured by revenues.

The company was established to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800. From there it grew to dominate the personal computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems and it is soon to release the latest in the series, Windows 8. In June 2012, Microsoft also announced that it would be entering the PC vendor market for the first time, with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet computer.

5. Wal-Mart

The American multinational retailer, Walmart saved over $958 million last year to put into various humanitarian activities in cash and products 25.2 percent more from 2010. In 2011, the company’s pretax profit was $24,398,000,000.

Since 2008, Wal-Mart Stores was branded as Walmart and it runs chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. Fortune Global 500 list in 2012 ranked it as the world’s third largest public corporation. It is the biggest private employer in the world with over 2 million employees. The company, founded by Sam Walton in 1962, is controlled by Walton family that owns a 48 percent stake in Walmart.

Walmart is the largest grocery retailer in America and in the year 2009 it generated 51 percent of its $258 billion sales in the U.S. from grocery business. The company also owns and operates theSam’s Club retail warehouses in North America.