Warren Buffett is donating another $5.3B of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities.
Warren Buffett is donating another $5.3 billion of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four family charities, his biggest annual donation since he began making them in 2006.
Buffett’s donations boost his overall giving to the charities to about $57 billion, including to the family charities in the last two Novembers.
The latest donation, announced on Friday, includes about 13 million Berkshire Class B shares.
Buffett is donating 9.93 million shares to the Gates Foundation, and has donated more than $43 billion of Berkshire shares there overall.
He is also donating 993,035 shares to the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, named for his late first wife, and 695,122 shares to each of three charities led by his children Howard, Susan and Peter: the Howard G.
