The administration has been keeping donations for the ballroom secret by using a nonprofit to collect donations and channeling that money “into a White House account the president directly controls. 57 donors have committed to giving $100,000 or more to the project. Nvidia and Apple committed $25 million each. Microsoft, Palantir, and Lockheed Martin pledged $10 million each. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s son Brandon contributed stock worth more than $2.5 million. Missing from the list is Trump himself, who claimed he would be helping to pay for the project.