The donated money will help establish an endowment fund to pay children’s cancer specialists.

The donation will also help the hospital build a new pediatric unit, as well as double the size of its neonatal and pediatric intensive care units.

St. John’s is matching the donation to help fund the expansion of the hospital’s cancer treatment unit, which will be renamed the Jane Pitt Pediatric Cancer Center, in honor of Brad’s mother,

Pitt and Jolie are the parents of six children.

The Pitt family is from Missouri.

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St John’s Hospital Springfield, Mo

Jolie has dethroned Oprah Winfrey to top this year’s Celebrity 100 list, Forbes’ annual ranking of the world’s ultra famous.

Jolie raked in $27 million in the past 12 months from feature films “Kung Fu Panda,” “Wanted” and the not-yet-released spy thriller “Salt.”

Winfrey drops to No. 2 on the list. The media maven has pocketed $275 million in the last year, making her the list’s top earner.

Though viewership for her daily chat fest, “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” continues to erode, her earnings remain unchanged from a year ago. In addition to Winfrey’s monthly magazine, she has a three-year, $55 million deal with XM Satellite Radio. Early next year, the self-made billionaire will roll out the lifestyle-themed Oprah Winfrey Network in partnership with Discovery Communications.

The Forbes Celebrity 100, which includes film and television actors, models, chefs, athletes, authors, and musicians, is a measure of entertainment-related earnings and exposure in print, television, radio and online.