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Gates Foundation

Foundation founded by Bill and Melinda Gates, funded also by Warren Buffett; based in Seattle.

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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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  1. funded by Warren Buffett ($47.9B) 2006–2025

Its fact sheet gives total giving to it by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates as $63.9 billion through 2025, and by Warren Buffett as $47.9 billion from 2006 through 2025. It reports a $89 billion endowment at the end of 2025 and $8.47 billion of charitable support in 2025.

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  • States adopt the Common Core standards funder; the Washington Post’s figure is quoted and the foundation disputes the aim Scholarship & press 3

    The $200 million is the Washington Post’s figure as Education Week quotes it; the Post’s sentence can be read to include paying for the standards themselves. Gates said the foundation funds research and does not pay people to endorse the standards.

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  1. 2006–2025 Warren Buffett funded Gates Foundation
  2. until 2025 Bill Gates funded Gates Foundation
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  1. Melinda French Gates announces $1 billion donation to support women and families, including reproductive rights, CBS News, 28 May 2024. Scholarship & press
    as she steps away from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , which she helped to co-found nearly 25 years ago
    Philanthropist Melinda French Gates is donating $1 billion over the next two years to support women and families, including reproductive rights
    For too long, a lack of money has forced organizations fighting for women's rights into a defensive posture while the enemies of progress play offense. I want to help even the match.
  2. Foundation Fact Sheet, Gates Foundation, 2026. Primary record
    Warren Buffett total giving to the foundation from 2006 through 2025: $47.9 billion
    Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates total giving to the foundation from inception through 2025: $63.9 billion
    Total 2025 Charitable Support: $8.47 billion
    Foundation Trust Endowment as of December 31, 2025 : $89 billion
  3. The Washington Post’s “Tense” Talk With Bill Gates on Common Core, Education Week, Jun 2014. Scholarship & press
    With more than $200 million, the foundation also built political support across the country, persuading state governments to make systemic and costly changes.
    We fund people to look into things. We don’t fund people to say, ‘Okay, we’ll pay you this if you say you like the Common Core.’
    These are not political things
    They have so much money to throw around, they can impact the Kentucky Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Education, they can impact both the AFT and the NEA
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