OpenAI President’s $5.5 Million Gift Saves Big Bear Eagle Habitat OutdoorHub Staff 07.29.26A Last Minute Gift Closes the GapThe San Bernardino Mountains Land Trust has secured the money it needed to buy forest land along the north shore of Big Bear Lake and block a housing development a mile from the nesting site of Jackie and Shadow, the bald eagles made famous by a round the clock livestream. On the morning of Friday, July 24, a week before the deadline, Friends of Big Bear Valley announced a $5.5 million donation from Greg Brockman, co-founder and president of San Francisco based OpenAI, and his wife, Anna. Friends of Big Bear Valley media manager Jenny Voisard said the group had been talking with the Brockmans for about a month and kept the arrangement confidential until it was finalized. What Happens to the LandWith the funding in place, the land trust plans to close escrow by July 31. She credited former Friends of Big Bear Valley executive director Sandy Steers, who died in February and had been instrumental in arranging the purchase agreement with RCK Properties.