This is something that we found out from looking at records. Bill Gates donate is doing this to help the foundations that Melinda Gatess a part of. The foundations that Melinda Gates is involved with will get 2 billion$ from Bill Gates.
Melinda French Gates got a lot of money from Bill at 10.8 billion dollars to help her do good things for women and families. She uses this money to support people who need it. Melinda French Gates is doing work with the money Bill gave her it is going to help a lot of women and families.
Bill Gates has given two billion dollars more, to the foundations that belong to his ex-wife Melinda French Gates. He said he would do this when she left the Gates Foundation. This is something he promised to do. Now he is doing it in the year 2024 when she actually leaves the Gates Foundation. Bill Gates is keeping his promise to Melinda French Gates and her foundations.
New nonprofit filings, for that year are out. They show that Bill gave a lot of money to two of Melindas foundations. He donated $982 million to Pivotal Philanthropies Opportunities and $982 million to Pivotal Philanthropies Momentum. Bill gave this money to support the work of Pivotal Philanthropies Opportunities and Pivotal Philanthropies Momentum.
Bill donated a lot of money to foundations that Melinda is involved with. This is in addition to 8.9 billion dollars that Bill gave to two foundations of Melinda. The tax filings for these foundations in 2024 were made public over the two months. Forbes was the first to tell us about a 7.9 billion dollar gift to Pivotal Philanthropies, which’s Melindas main foundation, for giving money. The New York Times was the first to report that Bill gave 982 million dollars to Pivotal Philanthropies Pathways, which’s also one of Melindas foundations. Bill and Melindas foundations are getting a lot of money from Bill.
The new gifts that Bill has given to Melindas four foundations add up to a lot of money which’s now $10.8 billion. This is still $1.7 billion less than the $12.5 billion that Bill said he would give to Melindas projects when she left their foundation in 2024.. Someone who talks for Pivotal says that Bill has done what he agreed to do. We do not know when or where Bill gave the rest of the money to Melindas foundations. Bill gave a lot of money to Melindas four foundations. This is a big deal, for Melindas four foundations.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is something that Bill and Melinda Gates started together in the year 2000. They wanted to give away most of their money. Bill and Melinda Gates have a lot of money. Bill has $106 billion. Melinda has $29.6 billion.
Bill and Melinda Gates have given away at $52.6 billion to other charities. They also gave least $543 million through Pivotal Philanthropies. This is a lot of money. Bill and Melinda Gates are the biggest givers, in the world because of this. They have been doing this for a time and it is a big part of what the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation does.
The Gates Foundation, which was given a name has been getting money from Warren Buffett every year for almost twenty years. Warren Buffett is known as the generous person who gives to charity. The Gates Foundation has given out a total of $83.3 billion since it started and up to the year 2024.
The Gates Foundation is famous for trying to reduce tuberculosis and get rid of polio. They do other things to help people too. The foundation is having an effect on health all around the world.
The Gates Foundation has a lot of money to spend each year $9 billion. This is money, than the World Health Organization has to spend. The World Health Organization only has $6.2 billion to spend on its work in the years 2026 and 2027 combined.
Bill and Melinda kept working at the foundation for a few years after they got divorced in 2021. Then in May 2024 Melinda said she was leaving the foundation. She posted on LinkedIn that Bill was going to give her twelve point five billion dollars. Melinda said this money would be used to help women and families and that is what she wants to focus on. The foundation was something Bill and Melinda worked on together for a time but now Melinda is moving on to do her own thing with the money Bill is giving her.
Melinda was doing her charity work for a long time. She started an organization called Pivotal in 2015. Then she began its private foundation part in 2022. After that she started three groups. Pivotal Momentum, Opportunities and Pathways. In 2023. These smaller Pivotal groups used to be named after birds. They were called Rosefinch, Greenfinch and Snowfinch.. Then they were given new names in 2024. There is also a group, Firefinch that is part of Pivotal. Far Firefinch has not gotten any donations. Melindas Pivotal organization is still growing with all these groups.
These five foundations are all part of Pivotal. It is not easy to see how the missions of these five foundations are different from each other. Pivotal is working to make things better for women and young people in the United States and in countries. The website of Pivotal says that Pivotal is working to accelerate the pace of progress for women and young people in the United States and, around the world. The main goal of Pivotal is to help women and young people.
The Pivotal foundation gave out a lot of money $487 million in the year 2024. They also announced some plans last year. One of these plans is a project that will give $250 million to over 80 organizations that help womens health around the world. The smaller foundations that are part of the Pivotal foundation had not given out any money to charity as of their tax returns, for the year 2024. The Pivotal foundation is really focused on helping with womens health through this project.
The Pivotal ecosystem is made up of a lot of parts. It includes the Pivotal Initiatives Fund, which’s a social welfare organization. The Pivotal Initiatives Fund will work on advocacy. Make donations to politicians.
Perhaps because of the hefty sums that went to his ex-wife’s philanthropy in 2024, Bill donated significantly less to the Gates Foundation that year, gifting just $104.7 million to the foundation itself and the charitable trust that funds it. With an endowment of $86 billion through that trust, as of July 31, it still has plenty to give away before its intended sunset in 2045.
