Andrew Sabin Net Worth 2026: Sabin Metal Corp Owner

No reputable outlet has published a net worth figure for Andrew Sabin. He is chairman of Sabin Metal Corporation, which says it is the largest independently owned precious metal refiner in North America. His family foundation has also committed tens of millions of dollars to cancer research and environmental programs. The $12.5 million figure this page used to show had no source, and his public giving alone makes it look far too low, so it has been removed.

What is Andrew Sabin's net worth?

There is no reliable estimate. Sabin Metal Corporation is a private, family-owned company and does not publish revenue or profits. Forbes, Bloomberg and similar outlets do not list Sabin, and no sale or valuation of the business has been reported.

What is on the public record points to wealth well beyond the old figure. MD Anderson Cancer Center said in August 2026 that its Sabin Family Fellowship is funded from a $30 million endowment. The same announcement said the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation had committed another $10 million to immunotherapy research at the center's James P. Allison Institute. Wake Forest University reports a $5 million leadership gift from the foundation in 2023. These are foundation commitments, not his personal balance sheet, but they make a $12.5 million net worth very hard to believe.

Andrew Sabin's yearly income and salary

His pay has never been disclosed. The earlier version of this page listed $500,000 a year, $42,000 a month and $1,400 a day, with no source. As owner and chairman of a private company, his income would come from dividends and ownership, and none of that is public.

Sabin Metal Corporation

In a 2023 interview with LEADERS Magazine, Sabin traced the company to his grandfather, Abraham Seratoff. Seratoff emigrated from Russia to New York's Lower East Side in the early 1900s and started a scrap business. Andrew's father, Samuel, and a partner named Ben later tried to register the name Saben Metal. That name was taken, so they incorporated as Sabin Metal, and Samuel later changed the family's surname to Sabin.

The U.S. Department of Defense hired the company to recover precious metals from its silver-zinc batteries, and Sabin says it became the department's largest precious metals recycler. Today most of its work is recovering platinum, palladium, rhodium, ruthenium, rhenium, gold and silver from spent catalysts used by oil refineries and chemical makers. It also processes waste from the pharmaceutical and electronics industries. The magazine names a facility in Williston, North Dakota, and Sabin said the company employs more than 400 people.

Career

LEADERS Magazine says Sabin started working around the family business at age nine. He said he had wanted to be a farmer but joined the company in 1967. He became president in 1980 after his father died and is now chairman of the board. According to the magazine, he started Sabin Commodities, took the company international and moved it into industrial catalysts, which are now the core of the business. He said his three sons work at the company.

• 1967 – Joins Sabin Metal Corporation.
• 1980 – Becomes president after the death of his father, Samuel Sabin.
• Later – Founds Sabin Commodities and expands into catalyst recycling abroad.
• 2014 onward – The company and family foundation fund Columbia's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law.
• 2023 – $5 million gift names Wake Forest's Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability.
• 2026 – MD Anderson names its latest class of Sabin Family Fellows, bringing the total to 102.

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Philanthropy

Sabin's giving goes mainly to conservation and cancer research. LEADERS Magazine calls him a naturalist and says his gifts have helped protect habitats and species around the world. He has sat on environmental law advisory boards at Columbia Law School and UCLA School of Law and on the board of visitors of MD Anderson.

• Columbia Law School – The Sabin Center for Climate Change Law carries his name. Its director, Michael Gerrard, holds the Andrew Sabin Professorship of Professional Practice, according to a 2020 Daedalus essay.
• MD Anderson Cancer Center – Sabin Family Fellows each get $100,000 over two years. There have been 102 fellows so far, funded from a $30 million endowment, plus $10 million for the James P. Allison Institute.
• Wake Forest University – A $5 million gift in 2023 named the Andrew Sabin Family Center for Environment and Sustainability. Scientist Alan Townsend was named its head in April 2026.
• Yale – The foundation gives an annual $25,000 Sabin Sustainable Venture Prize and supports graduate students at Yale's forestry and environmental school.

He was also treasurer of the Evan Frankel Foundation, which the magazine says gave more than $17 million in grants over its 15 years.

Early life, family and education

The old page described a small-town childhood and a degree in metallurgy. Neither claim is supported. Sabin grew up in a New York family that had been in the scrap and metals trade for two generations. LEADERS Magazine says he earned a business degree from the University of Denver, the only education detail from the old page that holds up.

Andrew Sabin's wife

The earlier version of this page named a "Laura Ford" as his wife. We could not find any source for this, so it has been removed. Sabin's public statements mention his three sons and a grandson, but we found no reliable report naming his spouse.

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Age, height and weight

The old page said he was 54. That cannot be right, because he joined the family company in 1967 and became its president in 1980. His exact birth date is not published, so we do not give an age. We also removed the height and weight, which had no source.

Why no figure is given

Private family companies like Sabin Metal do not have share prices and do not report earnings, so outsiders cannot value them with any confidence. A credible net worth estimate would need a reported valuation, a sale or a rich-list review, and none exists for Sabin. What can be verified is the size of the business and the scale of his family's giving, and both point to wealth far larger than the figures that circulate on low-quality sites.