# Gates Foundation biggest in the world

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2000/01/25/gates-foundation-biggest-world/
- Published: 2000-01-25T00:00:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

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](http://www.thestandard.com/article/display/0,1151,9112,00.html)

At nearly $22 billion, Gates Foundation now world’s biggest at the Seattle Post 
Intelligencer.

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