Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates$63.90B
Co-founders and combined contributors to the foundation system.
Combined, rounded first-party total; no individual split is published. · through 2025
Gates Foundation fact sheet ↗$101.35B
1994–2026 awards
Bill Gates
US · b. 1955 · Q5284
[ Pledged ][ Paid ]
The four-line truth
Committed
In vehicles
—
0 staged transfers
Deployed
$33.78B
$33.78B statutory · — recipient-confirmed · — donor-reported
Awaiting deployment
$3.02B
statutory balance · FY2024
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.
[ Contributors ][ Independent recipients ]
Who funded the ranked capital
Ranked capital · 5y$29.18BFY2020–FY2024 · paid to independent recipients
Attribution scopeGates Foundation · pooled philanthropic vehicleThe person headline indexes this pooled deployment record.
Giving rateN/AThe ranked grants were paid from a pooled foundation funded by multiple contributors, so they cannot be divided among contributors or compared with Bill Gates's individual wealth.
01 · contributorsBill Gates and Melinda French Gates · Warren BuffettCapital enters through the Trust and direct-to-Foundation channels.
02 · principal funding vehicleGates Foundation TrustEIN 91-1663695Principal endowment vehicle: it holds and invests donated assets and transfers proceeds to the operating foundation. Schedule B also records Bill Gates contributing directly to the Foundation.
03 · legal payerGates FoundationEIN 56-2618866Legal payer of the ranked grants to independent recipients.
04 · deployedIndependent recipientsOnly verified paid grants enter the ranked total.
Principal contributors
Warren Buffett$47.90B
Substantial contributor to the foundation endowment.
Rounded first-party cumulative total beginning in 2006. · through 2025
Gates Foundation fact sheet ↗Governance record
- Melinda French Gates
Co-founder and former co-chair; last day at the foundation was 2024-06-07.
ended 7 Jun 2024Gates Foundation departure statement ↗ - Bill Gates
Current foundation chair and current trustee of the Gates Foundation Trust.
Annual Schedule B inflows
Qualifying contributions received by the legal payer, kept separate from its outgoing grants.
| Fiscal year | Featured filed inflows | Other qualifying contributors | Schedule B total | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2020 |
| 16additional filed contributors$1.2M | $6.76B | 202143159349100004 · e74361801c8a… · loaded18 Schedule B rows |
| FY2021 |
| 19additional filed contributors$102.3M | $6.24B | 202243159349100839 · b6606a787110… · loaded21 Schedule B rows |
| FY2022 |
| 16additional filed contributors$25.8M | $6.84B | 202303179349101020 · b976487a9f2a… · loaded18 Schedule B rows |
| FY2023 |
| 17additional filed contributors$37.3M | $7.80B | 202433189349102233 · 89e5e525e889… · loaded19 Schedule B rows |
| FY2024 |
| 19additional filed contributors$26.7M | $8.13B | 202523189349103667 · 3e481d115bda… · loaded21 Schedule B rows |
No proportional allocation. The Foundation pays grants from pooled assets. Schedule B proves annual inflows to the legal payer, not which contributor funded any particular grant; no ranked outflow is allocated proportionally among Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, Warren Buffett, the Trust, or other contributors.
Context:Foundation and Trust structure · Endowment contributors and current Trust governance · Contributor totals through 2025 · IRS Schedule B public-inspection rules
[ Largest ][ Loaded evidence only ]
Top recipients
- GAVI ALLIANCE$2.15B
- WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION$2.15B
- GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THE$1.59B
- UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF$991.6M
- PATH$917.5M
- UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$706.5M
- INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT$679.4M
- ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THE$626.4M
Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.
[ Volunteered ][ Compelled ]
Transparency
10070/70 volunteered · 30/30 compelled by filing rulesscore of what this donor's own evidence reveals
- Publishes an open grants databaseGates Foundation committed-grants database40/40
- Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $33,784,047,83330/30
- Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $33,784,047,833 filed15/15
- Most recent evidenceFY202415/15
US private foundations must name material grantees on Form 990-PF, so recipient-level detail here is compelled, not volunteered.
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 · 14 regulator- or Wikidata-linked
- MicrosoftEIN unresolved in loaded subset
- Xbox Game Studiosno EIN claim
- The Giving Pledgeno EIN claim
- Branded Entertainment Networkno EIN claim
- Gates FoundationEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFEIN 562618866 · SEATTLE, WA · assets $78.67BIRS-TEOS 562618866 · co-founder; sole chair since June 2024
- bgC3no EIN claim
- Microsoft Researchno EIN claim
- DATAno EIN claim
- Traf-O-Datano EIN claim
- TerraPowerno EIN claim
- Cascade Investmentno EIN claim
- FWD.usno EIN claim
- Breakthrough Energy Coalitionno EIN claim
- Goalkeepers (Gates Foundation)no EIN claim
Provenance
person metadata: Wikidata (CC0) · retrieved 2026-08-27
snapshot qid_resolution: 1f3eb9d3b24feced…
snapshot entity_data: 8ba5270497c306aa…
snapshot founder_sparql: 2ba49ccbbdb69347…
US org facts: IRS EO BMF (public domain) · scope: WA, NE, NY, CA, TX
capital events: 990-PF XML/rendered copies · CCEW/OSCR accounts · Gates CSV · Yield Giving