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You'd think that a company making nearly $41 billion in yearly profit
in 2007 would be profligate in its charitable giving. We don't know yet
what Exxon Mobil's 2007 total was, but the company issues a yearly
feel-good report on <a href="http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/community_contributions_report.aspx">“community contributions.”</a>
The 2006 document says Exxon gave away $138 million in 2006, as it made
its previous record profit of $39.1 billion. That comes to less than
four-tenths of one percent of its profit, and about one-third of the
$398 million that Exxon gave Chairman Lee Raymond as he retired in 2006.
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