Philanthropic gift
Bill Gates: $20.0B moved in 2022
Transferred $20bn to the Gates Foundation endowment, one of the largest single charitable gifts ever recorded.
The figure
- Amount20,000,000,000 US dollars
- CategoryPhilanthropic gift
- CorridorSeattle, United States → Seattle, United States
- Distance0 km apart
- Year reported2022
- Documentation confidence96/100
What that amount buys
$20.0B is roughly 267 long-range private jets, 47.6K median-priced US homes, or 248.1K years of median US household income.
Bill Gates is publicly known as co-founder, microsoft. The arc drawn for this entry joins Seattle 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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