Anne Scheiber (October 1, 1893 – January 9, 1995) was an American IRS auditor and a post-mortem philanthropist who, over 50 years of retirement, secretly amassed significant wealth and upon her death donated it all—US$22 million—to Yeshiva University for scholarships for women.
Anne Scheiber was an unknown, reclusive and extremely frugal New York woman who worked as an estate auditor for the United States Internal Revenue Service, retiring from the IRS in 1944.
Despite her experiences with discrimination, Scheiber's life became noteworthy for her accomplishment as an extremely skillful investor during her 50 years of retirement, and ultimately as a surprise philanthropist in support of women's education.
In her early adult years, Scheiber had a series of negative experiences with financial brokers in the 1930s, and eventually retired from her job as an auditor at the IRS in the mid-1940s, with only $5,000 saved up and a $3,100 annual pension.
Upon bequeathal of her entire fortune to Yeshiva University at the time of her death, she ensured that little taxes were ever paid to her former employer, other than small payments on dividends and on her modest pension.