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.

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