Background
James Ray Cargill II is the great-grandson of William W. Cargill, the founder of Cargill.
James Ray Cargill II is the great-grandson of William W. Cargill, the founder of Cargill.
He sits on the Board of the Center of the American West at the University of Colorado at Boulder and on the Board of Trustees of the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution. He has donated to the Spot youth center in Denver, Colorado, the Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis Institute of Art in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Through the Cargill II Trust, he has owned stock in SolarAttic, a company that uses solar energy to heat swimming-pools.
As of 2014 his estimated Netto worth is United States$2.5 billion.