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Quick Glance: Bill Gates gives $20 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft Corporation, is donating $20 billion to the philanthropic organization he and his ex-wife Melinda French Gates administer in order to enhance its annual contributions.
- The endowment of the 22-year-old organization currently stands at almost $70 billion, thanks to a $3.1 billion donation from Warren Buffett last month.
- "The great crises of our time require all of us to do more," Gates added, citing the COVID-19 epidemic, the Ukraine war, and climate change as examples.
- Gates' most recent financial commitment, according to the announcement, upped the foundation's endowment to roughly $70 billion.
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