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Bill Gates Philanthropy & Donations

Bill Gates has donated more than $59.5 billion through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — the largest private charitable foundation in history. These 173 verified philanthropy milestones track every major gift, pledge, and program: from co-creating the Giving Pledge in 2010 to committing 99% of his remaining wealth before the foundation closes in 2045.

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Philanthropy

Bill Gates Accomplishments

Bill Gates Philanthropy & Donations

Melinda French Gates commits an additional $215 million to women's health through Pivotal

Bill Gates publishes the 2026 Gates Foundation Annual Letter, 'Reaching 2045'

Gates Foundation commits initial $15 million to an Ebola outbreak response in Africa

Gates Foundation sets record $9 billion 2026 budget while cutting up to 500 jobs by 2030

Gates-funded World Mosquito Program cuts Colombia dengue by half — viral 'bacteria mosquito' claims debunked

Gates Foundation denies claims it released genetically modified mosquitoes in Kenya

Gates Foundation Announces External Governance Review and 20% Staff Reduction Amid Epstein Fallout

US House Oversight Committee Issues Subpoena to Gates Foundation Over Epstein-Era Documents

Fortune Investigation Links Gates Associates Melanie Walker and Steven Sinofsky to Ongoing Epstein Contact

Gates Foundation launches independent investigation into Epstein ties ahead of congressional testimony

Gates Foundation opens a Singapore office and commits $100 million to Southeast Asian health

Gates Foundation explores bringing GLP-1 weight-loss drugs to lower-income countries

Breakthrough Energy lays off its climate policy teams as Gates retreats from advocacy

The Giving Pledge turns 15 amid scrutiny that most signers are richer than ever

Gates Foundation's weight as a WHO funder grows as the US withdraws

Gates says the majority of the foundation's $200 billion spend-down will go to Africa

Gates tours Ethiopia and Nigeria to mark 25 years of the foundation's work in Africa

Warren Buffett donates a record $6 billion, reaffirming the Gates Foundation gets nothing after his death

Gates warns of a 10-15% chance of a major pandemic within four years

Gates commits $50 million to the Dementia Discovery Fund, driven by his father's Alzheimer's

Gates skips COP30 as he urges the world to 'refocus' climate goals

Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets Bill Gates at the UN and urges deeper China-US cooperation

Gates and RFK Jr. 'agree to disagree' on vaccines as Gates seeks pragmatic cooperation

Gates warns the Trump administration his foundation cannot fill the gap left by USAID's shutdown

Gates warns RFK Jr.'s halt of US Gavi funding would have 'devastating consequences'

Gates Foundation partners with Hetero to make generic HIV-prevention shot lenacapavir at ~$40 a year

Gates pledges $912 million to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and malaria

2025 Goalkeepers Report warns child deaths could rise for the first time this century

Musk fires back at Gates over USAID 'killing children' accusation

Gates and Rotary commit up to $450 million to the 'final push' against polio

Gates's 'Three Tough Truths About Climate' memo reframes his message and sparks backlash

Gates accuses Musk of 'killing the world's poorest children' through USAID cuts

Gates pledges to give away 99% of his fortune and close the Gates Foundation by 2045

Gates-funded Oxitec 'Friendly' mosquitoes scaled up in Djibouti to fight urban malaria

Burkina Faso government halts Gates-funded Target Malaria genetically modified mosquito project

Gates Foundation Commits $1.4 Billion for Climate-Resilient Agriculture in Africa and Asia

UNHCR–Gates Foundation partnership reaches nearly $20 million across ten grants spanning emergency relief, maternal health, and sanitation innovation

Committed $1.4 billion to help smallholder farmers adapt to climate extremes

Melinda French Gates Resigns From the Gates Foundation With $12.5 Billion for Her Own Philanthropy

Called on wealthy nations to dramatically increase foreign aid to Africa and extend debt relief to overburdened African governments

Investigative Book 'The Bill Gates Problem' Challenges the 'Good Billionaire' Image

Gates-Backed AGRA Drops 'Green Revolution' From Its Name After Years of Failure Claims

Gates Gives $20 Billion to His Foundation and Vows to 'Move Off' the World's Richest List

Pledged $1,000,003 to UNHCR for Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia's invasion

African Civil-Society Groups Urge the Gates Foundation to Stop Funding AGRA

Gates and Bezos Co-Host Food Systems and Deforestation Workshop at COP26 Side Event

Gates Foundation Grants $16 Million to World Resources Institute for Food, Land-Use, and Forest Research

Gates Foundation Pledges $315 Million to CGIAR for Climate-Smart Agriculture at COP26

Mark Suzman Becomes CEO of the Gates Foundation

'False Promises' Report Says the Gates-Funded Green Revolution in Africa Failed Its Goals

Columbia Journalism Review Reports the Gates Foundation Gave $250 Million-Plus to News Outlets

Gates Foundation committed COVID-19 emergency response grants to BRAC and BRAC USA, supporting programs reaching Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

Gates Foundation awarded additional grant to GCIR for immigrant and refugee support during the COVID-19 pandemic

Directed nearly $6 billion in agriculture grants to Africa over 17 years — the largest private agricultural aid commitment in history

Launches Gates Ag One to develop climate-resilient crops for smallholder farmers

New Yorker Investigation Reveals MIT's $7.6 Million in Epstein-Connected Donations, Prompts Gates Foundation Review

Argued in the Washington Post that Africa's population growth without health investment would generate unprecedented migration pressure

Gates Foundation renewed grant to Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees for US immigrant advocacy coordination

Published Goalkeepers 2019 Report on Africa's youth demographic potential

Gates Foundation invests $200 million in global mental health research

Stanford Scholar Argues Mega-Philanthropy Like Gates's Undermines Democracy

Gates Foundation Commits $40 Million to Livestock Genetics for Climate-Resilient Dairy in Africa

Awarded $3 million for the Mobile Money for Resilience platform in Jordan, providing financial services to Syrian refugees

Committed $1 billion to malaria eradication at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Malaria Summit

RAND study declares Gates's $575 million teacher effectiveness initiative a failure

Published Goalkeepers 2018 Report on women's health as an economic multiplier

Gates Pledges $1.7 Billion to K-12 Education After Earlier Reform Bets Disappoint

Gates Foundation Scales Nigeria Food Fortification to Reach 73 Million People

Gates Foundation Awards $11 Million to FAO for African Food and Agriculture Policy

Gates Foundation significantly expanded its MENA humanitarian refugee response to over $20 million

Launched the Goalkeepers initiative at the UN General Assembly, tying health and development investment in Africa to reducing forced displacement

Warned that European generosity toward African migrants creates 'perverse incentives' and called for foreign aid investment instead

Gates Foundation Funds CGIAR Excellence in Breeding Platform to Modernise Crop Variety Development and Guarantee Open Access

Obama delivered keynote at the inaugural Gates Foundation Goalkeepers event

'Gated Development' Report Accuses the Gates Foundation of Skewing Global Development

Gates Foundation Helps Launch the $2.5 Billion Lives and Livelihoods Fund

Gates Foundation Matches (RED) Donations to the Global Fund

Gates Foundation awarded a grant to the International Rescue Committee for global humanitarian and refugee health programs