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The Gates Foundation [a] is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates.Based in Seattle, Washington, it was launched in 2000 and is reported to be the third largest charitable foundation in the world, [6] [7] holding $69 billion in assets as of 2020. [4]
Gates studied the work of Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, and donated some of his Microsoft stock in 1994 to create the "William H. Gates Foundation". In 2000, Gates and his wife combined three family foundations and donated stock valued at $5 billion to create the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which was identified by the Funds for ...
Bill Gates said Wednesday he would donate $20 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to address "huge global setbacks" facing the world.
In 2000, she and Gates co-founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest private charitable organization. [3] The couple, who have three children together, divorced in 2021. In 2024, she resigned from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to pursue philanthropy independently, having received $12.5 billion for charitable work as ...
Since its founding in 2000, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has grown into one of the world’s largest private charitable organizations, paying out a total of $77.6 billion in grants ...
Gates and his ex-wife, Melinda French Gates, had transformed global philanthropy by creating what is now the Gates Foundation, an organization credited with saving millions of lives and working ...
Melinda French Gates, one of the world’s preeminent philanthropists, said Monday she would resign as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation that she has helped lead since 2000.
French Gates will be leaving the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation next week. She helped co-found the organization nearly 25 years ago. She helped co-found the organization nearly 25 years ago.