Michael Bloomberg

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. JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY42 grants · FY2020–FY2024 ·statutory$994.9M
2. VITAL STRATEGIES INC22 grants · FY2021–FY2024 ·statutory$190.8M
3. PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE11 grants · FY2020–FY2024 ·statutory$167.1M
4. CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS29 grants · FY2020–FY2024 ·statutory$161.4M
5. CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION5 grants · FY2020–FY2023 ·statutory$114.1M
6. CHARTER FUND INC (DBA CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND)2 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$101.5M
7. WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC1 grant · FY2021 ·statutory$90.0M
8. RESOURCES LEGACY FUND4 grants · FY2021–FY2024 ·statutory$85.5M

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 $4,559,693,57330/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $4,559,693,573 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 · 5 regulator- or Wikidata-linked

• Bloomberg Family FoundationEIN confirmed · IRS 990-PFIRS-TEOS 205602483 · founder/funder (Bloomberg Philanthropies)
• Bloomberg L.P.no EIN claim
• Bloomberg Philanthropiesno EIN claim
• Bloomberg IP Holdings LLCno EIN claim
• Willett Advisorsno EIN claim

Provenance