#benefactor__helper a person who helps people or institutions
supertype: #good_person a person who is good to other people
subtype: #benefactress a woman benefactor
subtype: #bondsman__bondswoman someone who signs a bond as surety for someone else
subtype: #donor.benefactor__giver__presenter person who makes a gift of property
subtype: #abnegator one who gives up or relinquishes or renounces something
subtype: #almsgiver a person who gives alms
subtype: #Indian_giver one who ask you to return the present he has given you
subtype: #philanthropist__altruist someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being
instance: #Andrew_Carnegie__Carnegie #Peter_Cooper__Cooper #Ezra_Cornell__Cornell #Solomon_Guggenheim__Guggenheim #John_Harvard__Harvard #Milton_Snavely_Hershey__Hershey #Hopkins__Johns_Hopkins #Andrew_William_Mellon__Mellon__Andrew_Mellon__Andrew_W._Mellon #Alfred_Bernhard_Nobel__Nobel__Alfred_Nobel #First_Viscount_Nuffield__Nuffield__William_Richard_Morris #John_Davison_Rockefeller__Rockefeller__John_D._Rockefeller #Cornelius_Vanderbilt__Vanderbilt__Commodore_VAnderbilt #Elihu_Yale__Yale
subtype: #subscriber__contributor someone who contributes (or promises to contribute) a sum of money
subtype: #subsidizer__subsidiser someone who assists or supports by giving a subsidy
subtype: #tipper a person who leaves a tip; "a generous tipper"
subtype: #donor (medicine) someone who gives blood or tissue or an organ to be used in another person (the host)
subtype: #blood_donor someone who gives blood to be used for transfusions
subtype: #universal_donor a person whose type O Rh-negative blood may be safely transfused into persons with other blood types
subtype: #organ_donor__organdonor someone from whom an organ is taken for transplantation
subtype: #good_Samaritan__Samaritan a person who voluntarily offers help or sympathy in times of trouble
subtype: #humanitarian__do-gooder__improver someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms
subtype: #liberator someone who releases people from captivity or bondage
subtype: #emancipator__manumitter someone who frees others from bondage; "Lincoln is known as the Great Emancipator"
subtype: #obliger__accommodator someone who performs a service or does a favor
subtype: #offerer__offeror someone who presents something to another for acceptance or rejection
subtype: #patron__sponsor__supporter someone who supports or champions something
subtype: #backer__angel invests in a theatrical production
subtype: #godfather someone having a relation analogous to that of a male sponsor to his godchild
subtype: #godparent a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism
subtype: #godfather.godparent any man who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
subtype: #godmother any woman who serves as a sponsor for a child at baptism
subtype: #guarantor__surety__warrantor__warranter one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another
subtype: #patroness__patrones a woman who is a patron
subtype: #provider someone who provides the means for subsistence
subtype: #savior__saviour__rescuer__deliverer a person who rescues you from harm or danger
subtype: #messiah__christ any expected deliverer
subtype: #sparer someone who refrains from injuring or destroying
subtype: #uncle.benefactor a source of help and advice and encouragement; "he played uncle to lonely students"
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