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The Amazon founder, estimated to be worth $124 billion, suggested in an interview on CNN that he would donate most of his money to charity in his lifetime, the first [...]

Sam Bankman-Fried, the chief executive of the embattled cryptocurrency exchange, was a proponent and donor of the ''effective altruism'' movement. In short order, the extraordinary collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange [...]

He said passengers killed on two 737 Max flights were crime victims, siding with relatives who objected to a deal that spared Boeing from a criminal charge. A federal judge [...]

In a few short years, effective altruism has become the giving philosophy for many Silicon Valley programmers, hedge funders and even tech billionaires. When Elon Musk's text messages were released [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Rebecca R. Ruiz and Karen Weise Less than two years after announcing the marriage and their intent to give money away together, Ms. Scott has parted ways [...]

Less than two years after announcing the marriage and their intent to give money away together, Ms. Scott has parted ways with her second husband, a teacher. Less than two [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish After going dark during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the Clinton Global Initiative is back. After a six-year hiatus, the Clinton Global Initiative returned to New York [...]

After going dark during Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign, the Clinton Global Initiative is back. After a six-year hiatus, the Clinton Global Initiative returned to New York City this week, [...]

The director of the nation's largest network of food banks is seeing support dwindle as need rises: ''You're in the middle of a battle, and people are leaving the field.'' [...]

Byline: Lora Kelley and Nicholas Kulish The director of the nation's largest network of food banks is seeing support dwindle as need rises: 'You're in the middle of a battle, [...]

The organization, still run by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, will eventually spend $9 billion a year, up from $6 billion, on causes like global health and education. When [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Katie Glueck and Michael C. Bender After more mass shootings, one side is gaining donors and political will; the other is galvanized by gun rights. Will anything [...]

After more mass shootings, one side is gaining donors and political will; the other is galvanized by gun rights. Will anything be different? After the massacre of schoolchildren at Sandy [...]

The organization offered the first official accounting of its finances recently, disclosing a filing to the I.R.S. In the tragic, whirlwind year of 2020, with racial-justice protests prompted by the [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish and Rebecca R. Ruiz The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott once recounted, in a television interview, a Chinese folk tale sometimes known as 'The Lost Horse.' The story [...]

The philanthropist announced new donations to Ukraine aid and Planned Parenthood, and said she would soon debut a database of all her giving. Since first promising in 2019 to give [...]

In the wake of Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates's divorce, their foundation added members to its new governing board. For the first time ever, the Bill and Melinda Gates [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish The richest people on earth typically devote a share of their vast resources to charity. That is the bargain and the expectation, anyway. Jeff Bezos, until very [...]

The richest people on earth typically devote a share of their vast resources to charity. That is the bargain and the expectation, anyway. Jeff Bezos, until very recently the world's [...]

The gift was the largest yet for the foundation and was among several splashy donations in recent months by Mr. Bezos, one of the world's richest people. Former President Barack [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish A little-known organization called the Bridgespan Group is guiding the philanthropic choices of many leading donors, including MacKenzie Scott. MacKenzie Scott stepped out of the long shadow [...]

A little-known organization called the Bridgespan Group is guiding the philanthropic choices of many leading donors, including MacKenzie Scott. MacKenzie Scott stepped out of the long shadow of her former [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, Ephrat Livni and Emma Goldberg They are tech titans, entertainment moguls and heirs to great fortunes. Their ranks grew during the pandemic, changing the political conversation around [...]

They are tech titans, entertainment moguls and heirs to great fortunes. Their ranks grew during the pandemic, changing the political conversation around taxing the wealthy. It's the other inflation problem. [...]

A year after announcing the Bezos Earth Fund, the Amazon founder detailed how some of the money would be spent. Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder and one of the world's [...]

The mass email that went out to Open Society Foundations' grant recipients in the United States in March began with an upbeat note about ''how resistance is translating into real [...]

Details of how the couple split their assets were not made public. The couple was married for 27 years. The divorce between Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates is now [...]

Following their divorce, they will continue to work together for now at the foundation, which they gave an additional $15 billion in resources, and will add new independent trustees. Bill [...]

Mr. Buffett, a longtime friend of Bill Gates, stepped down as a trustee of the organization just weeks after its founders announced their divorce. Warren Buffett, the chairman and chief [...]

Ms. Scott made a new round of grants, to 286 organizations. Her net worth, which Forbes estimates at $60 billion, keeps rising, thanks to Amazon stock. MacKenzie Scott promised she [...]

The billionaires, former government officials and academics gathered in a Manhattan conference room to brainstorm solutions to a problem they had all been working on from various angles: how best [...]

Byline: Anupreeta Das, Emily Flitter and Nicholas Kulish At least four employees at the firm, Cascade Investment, complained to Mr. Gates about Michael Larson, his longtime money manager. For 27 [...]

At least four employees at the firm, Cascade Investment, complained to Mr. Gates about Michael Larson, his longtime money manager. For 27 years, Bill Gates has entrusted the management of [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish, David Gelles, Anupreeta Das and Kate Kelly Their marital estate is enormous and complex, containing assets as varied as stocks and farmland. Divvying it up could have [...]

Their marital estate is enormous and complex, containing assets as varied as stocks and farmland. Divvying it up could have implications for philanthropy. The fortune of Bill Gates and Melinda [...]

Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates were stuck at home. When the pandemic hit last March, the couple retreated to their 66,000-square-foot home on the shore of Lake Washington, venturing [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish The end of one marriage has implications for the 1,600 staff members who direct $5 billion in annual grants to 135 countries. The Bill and Melinda Gates [...]

The end of one marriage has implications for the 1,600 staff members who direct $5 billion in annual grants to 135 countries. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation started with [...]

The announcement raises questions about the fate of their fortune. The couple helped create the Giving Pledge, but much of his Microsoft money has not yet been donated. Bill and [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Danielle Churchill needed help. She was raising five children in Wollongong, on the Australian coast south of Sydney, and had to cover thousands of dollars in special [...]

Danielle Churchill needed help. She was raising five children in Wollongong, on the Australian coast south of Sydney, and had to cover thousands of dollars in special therapy fees for [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Billionaires aren't usually cast as saviors of democracy. But one way they are winning plaudits for civic-minded endeavors is by funding the Fourth Estate. Billionaires have had [...]

Billionaires aren't usually cast as saviors of democracy. But one way they are winning plaudits for civic-minded endeavors is by funding the Fourth Estate. Billionaires have had a pretty good [...]

Those arrested included a member of the royal family and a longtime confidant of King Abdullah II. In a dramatic video, the country's former crown prince says he has been [...]

Her new husband, Dan Jewett, is a high school science teacher. He has pledged to work with her in giving away much of her billions. The billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott [...]

Byline: Nicholas Kulish Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits. On a Monday evening in November, [...]

Through a streamlined operation, Ms. Scott has given away $6 billion this year, much of it to small charities and nonprofits. On a Monday evening in November, Dorri McWhorter, the [...]

''She's disrupting the norms around billionaire philanthropy by moving quickly,'' an expert on charities said. In her short career as one of the world's leading philanthropists, MacKenzie Scott has made [...]