Jeff Bezos

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published award/approved-commitment flows or signed recipient-confirmed commitments within the displayed source coverage period, including exact named commitments, plus reviewed current forward-portfolio aggregates that are never accumulated across source snapshots; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' or audited future-support-obligation balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts, split into statutory, recipient-confirmed, and donor-reported evidence; in vehicles = transfers to controlled vehicles, DAFs, recipient foundations, or unresolved associated vehicles pending onward evidence (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. Smithsonian ForestGEO1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$12.0M
2. CDP Worldwide1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$9.9M
3. GreenLatinos1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$4.8M
4. Partnership for Southern Equity1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$3.5M
5. TreePeople1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$1.9M
6. UCLA Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$545K
7. Delaware Community Foundation1 grant · FY2023 ·recipient-confirmed$500K

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $33,095,00030/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $9,900,000 filed15/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202310/15

England & Wales charities may withhold recipient names on materiality or serious prejudice grounds, and a charitable trust may withhold recipients and amounts entirely while the settlor lives (Charities Act 2011 s.132(4)).

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 5 regulator- or Wikidata-linked

• Bezos Earth Fund FoundationEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFIRS-TEOS 931868994 · director and substantial contributor in the FY2024 Form 990-PF
• AmazonEIN unresolved in loaded subset
• Blue Originno EIN claim
• Nash Holdingsno EIN claim
• Bezos Earth Fundno EIN claim

Provenance