Lori Huang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang Hold $138 Billion Combined, With $75 Million Vanderbilt Gift Announced

Lori Huang, an electrical engineer and philanthropist, shares a combined net worth of $138 billion with her husband, Nvidia co-founder Jensen Huang. A $75 million gift announced in 2026 will establish a new art and design college affiliated with Vanderbilt University.

Huang keeps a lower public profile than her husband, but she is president of the Jen-Hsun and Lori Huang Foundation. The foundation reported more than $9.1 billion in net assets at the end of 2024, according to Celebrity Net Worth. That figure places the vehicle among the larger private foundations tied to a single technology fortune.

Where the money comes from

The couple's wealth comes overwhelmingly from Nvidia, which Jensen Huang co-founded in 1993 with Chris Malachowsky and Curtis Priem.

The company's stock is the basis of both their personal fortune and the foundation's assets. An earlier look at a Nvidia share donation by Jensen Huang shows how the value of such gifts has grown with the company's shares.

The Huangs' own story began well before the chipmaker existed. They met as electrical engineering students at Oregon State University. Lori Huang graduated there with a bachelor of science in electrical engineering in 1985, the year the two married. Nvidia was founded eight years later.

That shared engineering background runs through much of the couple's giving, and through the foundation she leads. Lori Huang's title as president means she holds a formal leadership role in directing the charitable work, even though she appears far less often in public than her husband does.

Where the giving goes

Oregon State, where the couple studied and met, has been a major recipient. The couple gave the university $50 million. They also gave $30 million toward an engineering building at Stanford University. Both gifts went to institutions tied to technical education, in line with the fields in which the couple trained and built their business.

The newest commitment points in a different direction. It is the only one of the three gifts described here that is directed to the arts and design rather than to engineering.

That is a small fraction of the foundation's $9.1 billion in net assets and of the couple's $138 billion combined net worth, which means the sums publicly attached to specific projects represent only part of the resources available to the foundation.

The net worth figure is a combined estimate for the couple rather than a separate valuation of Lori Huang alone. Because the fortune is overwhelmingly tied to Nvidia, the number moves with the company's valuation, and the same is true of the stock-based assets that fund the foundation.

Lori Huang's role as an engineer, a co-owner of the Nvidia fortune and the head of the family foundation makes her one of the more consequential figures in technology philanthropy despite her limited public presence. The Vanderbilt-affiliated college, once established, will be the most recent addition to a list of university gifts that already includes her alma mater in Oregon and a campus building at Stanford.