Patriots owner Robert Kraft has donated nearly $1 billion to charity

Longtime proprietor of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft, has spent many years constructing a soccer dynasty. Off the sphere, he has additionally labored to construct a philanthropic legacy.

Kraft informed Fox Information’ Invoice Hemmer that over the course of his profession he has given almost $1 billion to causes he cares about. The 84-year-old mentioned he has used his platform to sort out points essential to him, together with well being care, jail reform and combating anti-Semitism.

“I used to be blessed with nice dad and mom. They taught me nice values, how fortunate we had been to be on this nation and the way obligated we had been to care for our fellow residents,” Kraft mentioned on “America’s Newsroom.”

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New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft introduces Mike Vrabel because the crew’s head coach throughout a press convention at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on January 13, 2025. (Billie Weiss/Getty Photos)

Kraft based the Blue Sq. Alliance in 2019 to oppose Jewish hatred. The group works to teach the general public about anti-Semitism and fight its unfold on-line and inside faculties and universities.

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“Once I was privileged to obtain the Genesis Prize, which provides you 1,000,000 {dollars}, I needed to know the place I may give it to a gaggle that was preventing Jewish hatred. And I could not discover one,” Kraft mentioned.

“So I began this Blue Sq. Alliance.”

He mentioned that after the October 7, 2023 terrorist assaults in Israel, he felt moved to step up his efforts to confront anti-Semitism in America.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft appears on earlier than the NFL sport between the Patriots and the Buffalo Payments at Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park, NY, on October 5, 2025. (Bryan Bennett/Getty Photos)

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Kraft’s different philanthropic efforts embrace funding a fleet of cellular healthcare vans all through Massachusetts by means of the Kraft Heart for Neighborhood Well being, bringing medical care on to underserved neighborhoods.

“We realized that many individuals who stay inside a number of miles of those hospitals do not feel like they’ve entry to care,” he defined.

Kraft additionally turned concerned in jail reform after visiting rapper Meek Mill in jail in 2018. He described the go to as an “wonderful expertise” that modified his life.

New England Patriots proprietor Robert Kraft speaks throughout a statue unveiling ceremony earlier than the NFL preseason sport between the Washington Commanders and the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on August 8, 2025. (Billie Weiss/Getty Photos)

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The crew proprietor later helped launch the REFORM Alliance, a nationwide nonprofit group devoted to prison justice reform, particularly within the areas of probation and parole.

Kraft is now a finalist for induction into the Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame Class of 2026.