US EditionBill Gates to give away fortune by 2045, $200B for world's poorest
- Bill Gates announced on May 8, 2025, his plan to give away nearly $200 billion by 2045 through the Gates Foundation, which will then close.
- Gates accelerated this timetable from distributing wealth after death to completing it within 20 years due to urgent global health challenges and opportunity.
- Since 2000, the foundation has granted over $100 billion toward vaccines, diagnostics, and healthcare delivery to combat diseases and poverty worldwide.
- Gates emphasized that he does not want to be remembered as someone who "died rich" and announced that the foundation plans to allocate upwards of $200 billion by 2045 to eradicate preventable maternal and infant deaths and reduce poverty worldwide.
- The plan implies Gates’s personal net worth will drop significantly and reflects concerns about government aid cuts and hopes philanthropy and AI can accelerate progress.
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Bill Gates will spread $200 billion among humanitarian causes in two decades
The U.S. government has almost completely closed its international cooperation agency, Usaid, the world’s largest. Philanthropy is at a low point. Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has wanted to try a drastic turn to this trend with a sharp announcement: its foundation will disburse all its funds and the vast majority of Microsoft’s founder’s personal fortunes, in total about $200 billion, to drive charitable causes over the next …
Bill Gates wants to donate 200 billion US dollars by 2045 – and close his foundation
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates wants to donate his enormous fortune faster than previously planned. In 2045, the Gates Foundation is to stop its work. In interviews, the billionaire also criticizes Elon Musk: His austerity course at Doge destroys a lot of the foundation's work.
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