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APPLICATION PROCESS. The Foundation currently considers and makes grants twice a year - through a spring grant cycle and a fall grant cycle. The process for Foundation consideration and awarding of grants consists of two steps: 1. Pre-application.
As chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., he has invested in a broad range of companies, from See's Candies to Geico Insurance to Fruit of the Loom. Through 2022, Warren’s contributions to the Gates Foundation total $36 billion valued at the time of receipt.
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Allen Greenberg, the executive director of the foundation, was married from 1983 to 1995 to the Buffetts' daughter, Susie, who is chair. The Buffett Foundation was set up in 1964 but had no director until Greenberg took the job in 1987.
Susan Buffett's will bestowed about $2.5 billion on the foundation, to which her husband's further gifts of $315 million have been added.
The Buffett Foundation does not accept unsolicited requests, preferring instead to seek out worthy recipients on its own. Of the $17.6 million that the Buffett Foundation donated in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1999, nearly $3.8 million went to Planned Parenthood, among its top contributors. It also involves itself directly at the clinic level. I...
In the 1990s, the Buffett Foundation helped finance the development of the abortion drug RU-486. Between 2001 and 2014, the foundation contributed over $1.5 billion to abortion related causes, including at least $427 million to Planned Parenthood and $168 million to the National Abortion Federation. It has also funded the Guttmacher Institute, whic...
Warren Buffett's intention was originally to leave 99% of his estate to the Buffett Foundation, but in June 2006 he announced that he would give 85% of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundationinstead. Buffett stated that he changed his mind because he has grown to admire Gates's foundation over the years; he believed that the Gates Foundat...
The vast bulk of Buffett's wealth consists of his personal holdings in Berkshire Hathaway, a conglomerateof which he controls almost 40% directly, and which he has managed personally since the mid-1960s. Giving away such a large part of his company holding could prove problematic in that much of the business of Berkshire Hathaway consists of stock-...
We do not make grants outside our funding priorities. In general, we directly invite proposals by directly contacting organizations. We do occasionally award grants through published Requests for Proposals (RFPs). View a list of current RFPs.
Jun 14, 2022 · Today Warren Buffett released a statement sharing his thoughts on his approach to philanthropy as well as announcing his annual gift to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the four Buffett family foundations he also funds.
Created by Warren Buffett, Melinda French Gates, and Bill Gates, the Giving Pledge came to life following a series of conversations with philanthropists about how they could set a new standard of generosity among the ultra-wealthy.
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The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation welcomes applications for our Requests for Proposal (RFPs) opportunities. Please find more information about our open opportunities below. For information about how we make grants, learn more here.
