The 66-year-old had been vocal for years about donating his wealth to issues that matter, including climate change. By choosing I Accept, you consent to our use of cookies and other tracking technologies. Its also possible that because foundation distributions are much better documented than spending by LLCs like Laurene Powell Jobs Emerson Collective, billionaires with traditional foundations do better by this metric. ++SOUNDBITE PARTIALLY COVERED WITH B-ROLL++ 13. Video, 00:01:23Watch: Matt Hancock message row in 83 seconds, One-minute World News. Many fund new performing arts centers at Ivy League colleges with endowments of more than $10 billion, or wings named after them at art museums. In November, EducationSuperhighway, a nonprofit group that helps K-12 schools tap federal funds for high-speed classroom Internet connections, announced that the couple had agreed to donate $20 million to its work. We can overcome vaccine hesitancy. BILL GATES' JEFFREY EPSTEIN TIES: WHAT WE KNOW Donations made:Brin has donated to charities focusing on Parkinson's research, including the Michael J. Brilliant said. The billionaire couple, in less than a decade . Zucman pulled data from Forbes venerable billionaire rankings and a recent list it released compiling the 50 Americans who distributed the most money to charitable causes in 2018. Ten years ago in May 2009 billionaire philanthropists Bill Gates and Warren Buffett held a private dinner meeting with fellow billionaires in New York City. Society cannot help but be a beneficiary here, by virtue of at least some dollars and perhaps many, concluded a thoroughly reported piece in Fortune on the secret meetings that produced the Giving Pledge. Mr. Zuckerberg is 31, and Dr. Chan is 30. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? 2 min read. Bill and Melinda Gates give 95% of wealth to charity, Bill and Melinda Gates on philantropy. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. We must build technology to make change. The example youre setting today is an inspiration to us and the world, they said. The billionaire Microsoft co-founder, who launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000 with his then wife, Melinda, said the non-profit plans to increase spending from $6bn annually at present to $9bn annually by 2026. We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and Co-Founder of Facebook: The Gates Foundation made its first donation to the fight against polio 10 years ago. There's only one billionaire who currently donates more than half of his wealth to charity: businessman Warren Buffett, the third richest man in the world. Alex Murdaugh sentenced to two life terms for murdering his wife and son. To help make this spending increase possible, I am transferring $20bn to the foundations endowment this month, Gates announced on Twitter, later explaining, As I look to the future, I plan to give virtually all of my wealth to the foundation. Please enter a valid email and try again.