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Jan 10, 2024 · The evolution of Mark Zuckerberg’s philanthropy mirrors a transformative journey—one characterized by a shift from entrepreneurial success to a profound commitment to giving back.
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Lifetime Giving: $42.8 billion
The legendary investor’s quest to give away more than 99% of his fortune continues. So far, he’s donated more than $40 billion—much of it through annual gifts to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, where it’s being put to work on poverty and healthcare initiatives in the U.S. and developing countries. He’s also given billions in stock to the four charities set up by his three children and his late wife. “The reaction of my family and me to our extraordinary good fortune is not guilt, but rat...
Lifetime Giving: $29.8 billion
Their two decade old Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which makes about $5 billion a year in grants, jumped into funding research, treatments, tests and vaccines for Covid-19 last year, pledging $1.75 billion to be spent over two years, with the goal of getting the tools to fight the pandemic to people in need everywhere. “Everyone, everywhere deserves to benefit from the science developed in 2020,” Melinda Gates said in a statement in December. Warren Buffett has been contributing $2 billion...
Lifetime Giving: $16.8 billion
Soros’Open Society Foundations operate in 120 countries worldwide, focusing most extensively on fostering democracy and protecting voters’ rights, areas where it budgeted $140 million in 2020. With annual giving of $1.2 billion last year, the foundation’s causes include economic equity, antidiscrimination, human rights, justice reform and journalism. When Covid-19 hit, it committed $37 million for undocumented immigrants excluded from U.S. federal aid to receive financial assistance. It commi...
Lifetime Giving: $11.1 billion
The former New York City mayor and Bloomberg LP cofounderhas poured more than $11 billion into charitable causes, according to his Bloomberg Philanthropies, focusing on climate change, gun control and public health. He’s spent more than $1 billion to curb tobacco use over the last decade, and in 2018 announced a $1.8 billion pledge to Johns Hopkins University, his alma mater. Bloomberg Philanthropies has also donated more than $330 million to Covid-19 related programs ranging from medical res...
Lifetime Giving: $8 billion
The former billionaire who set out to die broke has finally met his financial goal. Feeney, who cofounded the wildly successful retail chain Duty Free Shoppers in 1960, began by anonymously giving away parts of his fortune. He eventually went public with his “Giving While Living” idea, which influenced Bill Gates and Warren Buffett when they launched the Giving Pledge in 2010. Of his $8 billion in donations, some $3.7 billion went to education, including $1 billion to his alma mater, Cornell....
Lifetime Giving: $5.83 billion
In just one year of active philanthropy, Scotthas outshined her peers by miles. With help from an undisclosed number of staff and advisory firm Bridgespan Group, she handed out more in grants in six months than The Gates Foundation, which has 1,600 employees, does in a typical year. In the midst of the Black Lives Matter protests in July, she announced that she had donated nearly $1.7 billion to 116 organizations focused on inequality in society related to race, sexual orientation, gender and...
Lifetime Giving: $5.15 billion
Two decades ago, the cofounder and longtime CEO of semiconductor giant Inteland his wife launched their foundation, funding it with gifts of Intel stock. The foundation awards about $270 million in grants a year. Its environmental conservation work has supported efforts to stop the loss of biodiversity. To boost science research, the foundation has funded design and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, a new class of telescope that will allow researchers to see deeper into sp...
Lifetime Giving: $2.8 billion
In 2020, the retired home building and insurance tycoonand his wife Edythe gave $136 million to various causes, including the Broad Institute which supported Covid-19 testing for college students and voter education and outreach across the country. The couple support the education, science and the arts through their Broad Foundation and are longtime residents of Los Angeles and patrons of the arts. In 1984, they founded the Broad Art Foundation, which includes an art lending library that has...
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
A former math professor before he founded quantitative trading hedge fund Renaissance Technologies in 1982, Simonshas dedicated much of his philanthropic giving to STEM research and education. He established the Simons Foundation with his wife Marilyn in 1994. It’s the primary funder for Math for America, a nonprofit that focuses on building a network of skilled high school math and science teachers. The foundation also funds life science research, with gifts to institutions like the New York...
Lifetime Giving: $2.7 billion
The Facebook founder and CEOcelebrated the fifth anniversary of his philanthropic and advocacy arm, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), in 2020. He and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have mostly focused their recent giving in two areas: Covid-19 relief and election integrity. From expanding coronavirus testing capacity in the state of California to working with the Gates Foundation to speed up development of Covid treatments, CZI gave more than $100 million to pandemic-related funding in 2020. B...
Mar 18, 2019 · Zuckerberg is an American technology entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is using his fame a fortune to help donate and raise awareness to put an end to global issues. With a net worth of $69.5 billion, Mark Zuckerberg’s charitable donations are a way in which this famous young man is using his own wealth in making the world a better place.
Dec 11, 2015 · Mr Zuckerberg chose not to set up a private foundation like that of Bill and Melinda Gates or Warren Buffett. Rather, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative will be structured as a limited liability...
Jun 26, 2020 · The line between the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Zuckerberg’s $80 billion-plus charity, and Facebook, his $600 billion-plus public company, legally exists, without a doubt.
Dec 2, 2015 · Following the birth of their daughter Max, Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have announced they will donate 99 percent of their wealth to charity.
Jan 28, 2021 · The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the philanthropy of Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan, is planning to overhaul its political program and spin out much of its advocacy work to...
