Warren Buffett to give USD 3.6 bn to five foundations


PTI, Jul 2, 2019, 10:51 AM IST

New York: Billionaire Warren Buffett announced Monday that he donated USD 3.6 billion worth of Berkshire Hathaway stock to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and four other charities.

Buffett, 88, nicknamed the “Oracle of Omaha,” will convert 11,250 of class “A” Berkshire shares into 16.9 million class “B” shares, Berkshire Hathaway said in a news release.

Besides the Gates Foundation, the recipients will be the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation, the Sherwood Foundation, the Howard G Buffett Foundation and Novo Foundation.

With prior Buffett donations, the longtime Berkshire chief will have given about 45 per cent of this 2006 holdings to the five foundations for a total of about USD 34 billion.

Buffett and the Gateses launched the “Giving Pledge” in 2010 in which billionaires promised to give at least half their wealth to philanthropic causes.

Buffett intends to donate all of his Berkshire shares to philanthropy through annual gifts that will be completed 10 years after his estate is settled, the company said.

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