Both Nvidia and Apple have each contributed $25 million to the new White House ballroom being set up by President Donald Trump, the largest amount any donor has given.
The numbers are from a donor list obtained confidentially by The Washington Post, which published the list on Thursday.
It is an internal spreadsheet used for fundraising. The spreadsheet lists the source, date, and amount of each of the 67 donations of $10,000 or more received by the end of September, for a total of $333 million.
Apple and Nvidia are in joint possession of the top position, along with two other donors: the Adelson family and Charles Ergen, the billionaire co-founder of Dish Network, each of whom made a $25 million donation.
Google, on the other hand, contributed $22 million, resulting from its 2025 settlement of the lawsuit Trump brought against YouTube.
$77 million was provided by donors who requested to remain anonymous, and although Trump is not listed, he has stated that he is helping to pay for the project.
“It’s being paid for a hundred percent by me and some friends of mine,” Trump said last year.
The White House named 37 ballroom donors in October 2025, including Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, and Microsoft. However, it did not say how much each one gave, and Nvidia was not on that list.
The Post also found that about half of the money came from companies, or their executives, that held federal contracts during Trump’s second term.
Some donors who had not been named before have since benefited from regulatory decisions or government contracts, the newspaper reported.
Nvidia said it was proud to give to a nonpartisan trust. It added that its support for the US is separate from its business interests.
White House spokesperson Davis Ingle defended the donors as he told Reuters that critics raising conflicts of interest would also complain if taxpayers paid for the work.
The donation comes as Nvidia works closely with Washington. The company has pledged $1bn to US science programmes, and its chief executive, Jensen Huang, also declined Senate testimony on the company’s chip sales to China.
The project has grown since it was announced, and the White House put the cost at $200M in July 2025, while Reuters now estimates it at $400M.