Warren Buffett Charitable Donations Top $51B After Latest Gift

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett’s total donations hit a new high on Wednesday as he disbursed millions of shares of the conglomerate to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and other organizations.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, formed in 2000 by its eponymous founders, received a gift of 10.45 million Class B shares, Berkshire said in a press release. The donation was worth over $3.5 billion.
More than 3.2 million additional shares went to four nonprofits linked to Buffett’s family, making this year’s iteration of his annual charitable disbursement total 13.69 million shares of Berkshire Hathaway Class B stock, according to the company.

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