Browsing: philanthropy
Warren Buffett breaks from ‘lifetime’ pledge to the Gates Foundation as the Epstein fallout deepens
The Bill Gates-Warren Buffett relationship is fraying. The Oracle of Omaha has reportedly paused his annual gift to the Gates…
Elon Musk on MacKenzie Scott giving away $26 billion of her fortune: ‘sadly,’ it makes the world a worse place
MacKenzie Scott has become one of the most affluent philanthropists of our time. After all, she’s given away more than…
Shell Foundation CEO: climate tech works. Getting it to a billion people who need it is the hard part
London Climate Action Week opened this year with less appetite for pledges and more demand for proof. Patience has run…
American giving hit $617 billion in 2025 — and the Paul Allen effect exposes who’s really driving it
The $617 billion that Americans gave to everything from churches to cat rescues was the second-highest ever in inflation-adjusted terms,…
Ken Griffin celebrates America 250 with $26M gift for new Roosevelt Library built into the Badlands
On July 4, 2026, as the United States marks its 250th birthday, a library will open in the North Dakota…
SpaceX just set a record for the largest-ever IPO, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. OpenAI and Anthropic…
Founders and investors have jumped on the commercial opportunity in menopause. The midlife women’s health company Midi has reached a…
Dylan Taylor made his first million at 27. Last year, he became a billionaire at 53, after taking his space-holding…
Jeff Bezos wants the bottom half of earners to pay zero income tax—he says nurses making just $75K should save $12K a year
For roughly 76 million American households, federal income taxes could eventually disappear—if a proposal by billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos…
As the U.S. and Europe pull back from global climate aid, can Asian funders fill the gap?
Shaun Seow, who heads the Philanthropy Asia Alliance (PAA), has a theory on why the new generation of Asian philanthropists…












