Billionaire MacKenzie Scott has become one of the most prolific philanthropists of the modern era by…
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Even as Elon Musk calls philanthropy ‘very hard,’ Americans gave a record $617 billion anyway—as households felt the squeeze over the cost of living
2025 brought a mixed picture for the U.S. economy. The stock market ended the year with…
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…
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…
Snap’s Evan Spiegel joins MacKenzie Scott in the race to erase medical debt, wiping out $550 million
Evan Spiegel has never been the loudest billionaire in the room. Sometime this spring, the Snap…
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…
Melinda French Gates’ advice to SpaceX, OpenAI IPO millionaires
SpaceX just set a record for the largest-ever IPO, raising $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion…
Melinda French Gates announces $215 million for women’s health and urges philanthropists to act without fear
It has been two years since Melinda French Gates left behind the Gates Foundation, which she…
Like Bill Gates, this billionaire is capping his kids’ inheritance at 8 figures
Dylan Taylor made his first million at 27. Last year, he became a billionaire at 53,…
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…
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…