His donors span the globe

Other former presidents have not made such detailed disclosures.

The list released Thursday served to jog memories that the Clintons and Obama might prefer to forget.

Denise Rich, for example, is listed as having given between $250,001 and $500,000. Her gift was disclosed in 2001, after President Clinton pardoned her ex-husband, Marc Rich, a wealthy commodities broker who had fled the country rather than face tax fraud charges.

Hillary Clinton had to deflect salvos during the Democratic presidential primary over her husband's foundation. After she won the Texas and Ohio primaries, Robert Gibbs, who will be Obama's press secretary, called on her to release all Clinton Foundation and Presidential Library documents, including donors.

"What is lurking in those documents?" Gibbs, then Obama's communications director, asked.

One of the questions she had to field concerned the Chinese company Alibaba Inc., which has been accused of collaborating with the Communist government's censorship of the Internet and of helping in the crackdown on Tibetan activists. The disclosure Thursday listed the firm as having given between $100,001 and $250,000.

Mary Boyle, a spokeswoman for Common Cause, a nonpartisan government watchdog, lauded the Clinton Foundation for disclosing its donors. "We think it's an important step," Boyle said.

The foundation said Thursday that 12,000 people gave $10 or less, and that 57,000 contributors gave more than once to the foundation and to a separate charity established by Presidents George H.W. Bush and Clinton to help Hurricane Katrina victims.

Other major donors include gambling and pharmaceutical firms, manufacturers, and entertainment figures such as David Geffen and Steven Spielberg.

Bernard L. Schwartz, the former chief executive of Loral Space & Communications Corp. who celebrated his 71st birthday with the Clintons in the White House in 1997, gave between $1 million and $5 million. So did S. Daniel Abraham, founder of the Slim-Fast diet food business. Abraham is on the board of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobbying group in the U.S.

Omaha businessman Vinod Gupta, whose generous treatment of Bill Clinton as a business consultant formed part of the basis of a shareholder lawsuit, contributed between $250,000 and $500,000, as did the firm he founded, InfoGroup Inc.