Someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being

Usage examples of altruist.

In short: encourage the view that the Internet is a medium catering to the needs of the community and the underprivileged, a mostly altruist endeavour.

Like you he is an altruist and welcomes passing vagabonds to his manse.

As an altruist I have given you a fine and nutritious meal, a length of magic rope and perduration of the sword.

The experiment that their medical experts had laughed to naught, as the dream of an altruist, had been put to the test of practice on a large scale, had stood the trial of years and now wore the crown of indisputable and brilliant success.

I knew he was some kind of altruist when I saw him drive off in that metallic-silver five hundred SEL.

So many of us, especially the selfsacrificial, the idealists, and the altruists, are conditioned to let someone else take control of our lives.

The world of the intelligentsia, the acclaimed artists, the misguided altruists.

Therefore we are altruists in charity, missionaries of humanity, patriots at home.

Human nature knows millions of these inconsequent little feuds, springing up and flourishing apart from any basis of racial, political, religious or economic causes, as a hint perhaps to crass unseeing altruists that enmity has its place and purpose in the world as well as benevolence.

Like the altruist morality from which it is derived, this doctrine rests on mysticism: either on the old-fashioned mysticism of faith in supernatural edicts, like “The Divine Right of Kings”—or on the social mystique of modern collectivists who see society as a super-organism, as some supernatural entity apart from and superior to the sum of its individual members.

By all rights, he ought to have gotten along with the newly arrived humans—professed altruists and collectivists that they were—but by nature, they were no more creatures of the flock than he was an individualist.