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January 3, 2023

Bill Gates made 2022's biggest charitable donation

  • The multibillionaire gave $5 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
    • By MARIA DI MENTO
    The Chronicle of Philanthropy

    The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual list of the 10 largest charitable gifts announced by individuals or their foundations totaled nearly $9.3 billion in 2022. The contributions went to large, well-established institutions, three of them private foundations and three universities to support environmental sustainability, children's mental health, and stem-cell research. The other gifts backed cancer research and treatment, housing efforts, youth programs, and reproductive health.

    Two of the gifts exceeded $1 billion, and six of the eight donors (one donor made three gifts) are multibillionaires. The combined net worth of those six donors is just over $325 billion.


     
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