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Gates Foundation biggest in the world

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Howard Lake | 25 January 2000 | News

A $5bn payment from the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife this week has made the Gates Foundation the world’s biggest grant-making foundation.

A $5bn payment from the Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife this week has made the Gates Foundation the world’s biggest grant-making foundation. With assets worth $21.8 billion it is bigger than the UK’s Wellcome Trust, which has assets worth $21.4 billion.

If the Gates’ had created a new foundation with the $5bn, it would still have been the sixth largest foundation in the US, according to Jimmy Guterman at The Standard

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.

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