Philanthropic gift
Warren Buffett: $5.30B moved in 2024
Converted and donated Berkshire A shares to the Gates Foundation and four family foundations.
The figure
- Amount5,300,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryPhilanthropic gift
- CorridorOmaha, United States → Seattle, United States
- Distance2.2K km apart
- Year reported2024
- Documentation confidence94/100
What that amount buys
$5.30B is roughly 71 long-range private jets, 12.6K median-priced US homes, or 65.7K years of median US household income.
Warren Buffett is publicly known as chairman, berkshire hathaway. The arc drawn for this entry joins Omaha and Seattle because those are the places the two sides of the deal are based — it is not the route a wire took through the banking system.
Source
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