Amar Singh, L N Mittal among donors to Clinton Foundation

The list offers a glimpse into the big-dollar world in which Clinton has traveled since leaving the White House as he jetted around the globe, making money for himself and raising vast sums for his ambitious philanthropic programs fighting disease, poverty and climate change. Some of the world’s richest people handed over large checks to finance his presidential library and charitable activities.

Saudi Arabia alone gave to the foundation $10 million to $25 million, as did government aid agencies in Australia and the Dominican Republic. Brunei, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar and Taiwan each gave more than $1 million. So did the ruling family of Abu Dhabi and the Dubai Foundation, both based in the UAE, and the Friends of Saudi Arabia, founded by a Saudi Prince.

Among the largest donors were a businessman close to the military ruler of Nigeria, a Ukrainian tycoon who was son-in-law of that former Soviet republic’s authoritarian President and a Canadian mining executive who took Clinton to Kazakhstan while trying to win lucrative uranium contracts.

In addition, the foundation accepted sizable contributions from several prominent figures from India, like a billionaire steel magnate and a politician who lobbied Hillary this year on behalf of a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement between India and the US, a deal that has rankled Pakistan.

Federal law does not require former presidents to reveal foundation donors, and Clinton had until now declined to do so.

Clinton’s foundation has raised $500 million since 1997, growing into a global operation with 1,100 paid staff members and volunteers in 40 countries. It said it had provided medicine to 1.4 million people living with HIV/AIDS, helped dozens of cities reduce heat-trapping gases and worked to spread economic opportunity.

Clinton’s advocates said that the disclosure on Thursday showed he had nothing to hide.

The list posted on the foundation’s website — clintonfoundation.org — did not provide the nationality or occupation of the donors, the dates they contributed or the precise amounts of their gifts, instead breaking down contributors by dollar ranges. Nor did the list include pledges for future donations. As a result, it is impossible to know from the list which donations were made while Clinton was still President or while Hillary Clinton was running for President.

Many benefactors are well-known Americans, like Stephen L Bing; Alfonso Fanjul; Bill Gates; Tom Golisano, a billionaire who ran for New York governor; Rupert Murdoch; and Barbra Streisand. Bloomberg L P, the financial media empire founded by Mayor Michael R Bloomberg of New York, contributed, as did Freddie Mac, the mortgage company now partly blamed for the housing market collapse.

Another potentially sensitive donation came from Blackwater Training Center, part of the private security firm hired to protect American diplomats in Iraq.

The potential for appearances of conflict was illustrated by Samajwadi Party’s Amar Singh, who gave $1 million to $5 million. Singh visited the US in September to lobby for a deal allowing India to obtain civilian nuclear technology even though it never signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty. He met with Hillary, who he said assured him that Democrats would not block the deal. Congress approved it weeks later.

Other donors have connections with India, a potential flashpoint because of tensions with Pakistan. Among them was Lakshmi Mittal, a steel magnate and, according to Forbes magazine, the fourth-richest person in the world. Mittal, who donated $1 million to $5 million, was involved in a scandal in 2002 in London. After Mittal made a large donation to the Labor Party, Tony Blair helped him persuade Romania to sell him its state steel company.