Max Simkoff is the founder and CEO of Doma Technology and board director at JVS Bay Area. Lisa Countryman-Quiroz is CEO of JVS Bay Area. August 7, 2026, 8:30 AM ET courtesy of JVS Bay Area SpaceX’s IPO this summer created an estimated 4,400 new millionaires overnight, and Anthropic and OpenAI are expected to soon follow. Goldman Sachs projects a historic year for IPO proceeds, driven by the AI boom. The question is: How much of this enormous wealth will trickle down to the people who need it

August 6, 2026, 3:00 AM ET Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has still managed to, along with his wife, Priscilla Chan, donate $7 billion through their Redwood City, Calif.-based foundation. California is home to more billionaires than any other state: 246 of them to be exact, according to an April report by Oxfam. It’s where MacKenzie Scott, Jensen Huang, and Mark Zuckerberg have funneled billions into charitable causes. Yet somehow it’s actually the worst state in the country to be a donor, according

The Citadel CEO gave $26M to the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library; Amazon’s founder gave to save endangered animals.

"Uber-wealthy people helping a fraction of the problems that they cause." Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos and his actor buddy Leonardo DiCaprio are catching some heavy flak recently, but for a seemingly bizarre reason: pledging millions of dollars to protect 100 of the world’s most threatened animal species. The charity initiative, called the Phoenix Species Project, was first revealed on DiCaprio’s Instagram account, where the six-time academy award nominee described it as the “largest single

As large gifts or 'super-gifts' to UK causes and charities multiply, donors wrestle with where, why and whether to give publicly

The International Booker Prize has secured landmark £1.4 million annual funding from Bukhman Philanthropies for the next decade

Craig Newmark, billionaire founder of early internet success story Craigslist, on his work to support veterans, fight misinformation and rescue pigeons

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DAFs are gaining in popularity as private firms like Anthropic and OpenAI skyrocket in value and more companies stay private for longer.

July 30, 2026, 11:45 AM ET Aliko Dangote is Africa's richest person and plans to leave one-third of his fortune for charity. Aliko Dangote wants to be remembered for being more than an industrialist. “I want to be known not just as Africa’s richest person,” Dangote said in 2025 when he joined Time’s list of the World’s Top 100 Philanthropists, “but also as its biggest philanthropist.” | Newsletter He plans to leave one-third of his fortune to charity, his daughter Halima Dangote told Bloomberg

July 22, 2026, 12:50 PM ET Bill Gates and Warren Buffett speak with journalist Charlie Rose at an event organized by Columbia Business School on January 27, 2017 in New York City. Gates and Buffett spoke on a range of topics including their friendship, business, philanthropy, global health, innovation, and leadership. Andrew Carnegie’s most famous line—”the man who dies thus rich dies disgraced“—was written as a threat, not a suggestion. Today, it lands with a different kind of sentiment,

The review also found no evidence that Epstein was paid by the foundation.

July 26, 2026, 9:18 AM ET Brian O’Kelley says he’s capped his wealth to $100 million. The tech founder says billionaires are wasteful, out of touch, and “othered” from real life. Brian O’Kelley banked less than $100 million after selling his $1.6 billion startup AppNexus to AT&T—and gave the rest to charity. The Gen X CEO says billionaires with yachts and multiple mansions are “obnoxious,” and keeping a cap on his wealth keeps him grounded, accountable, and connected to reality. “I don’t get why

Sir Ian Wood, a Scottish billionaire who built his fortune in the North Sea oil industry, has died peacefully at his home at the age of 84.

July 27, 2026, 4:39 PM ET Will Elon Musk end up giving away his entire $1 trillion fortune? Getty Images—Benjamin Fanjoy The public has long questioned the world’s richest man, Elon Musk, about what he’s doing sitting on a trillion-dollar fortune. After all, other billionaires give away vast amounts of their wealth (take MacKenzie Scott, who’s donated more than $26 billion and is still worth nearly $35 billion). On social media, some have begged and pleaded for him to give at least some of his

Anthropic and OpenAI employees are expected to give generously after their companies go public. “It’s going to be a wild ride,” says one nonprofit leader.

Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, will donate a third of his $36.5 billion fortune—marking one of the largest charitable commitments ever by an African billionaire!

BNP Paribas reports an increasing two-way capital flow through Hong Kong as Europeans seek to establish family offices in the region.  France’s largest bank is seeing a growing number of wealthy European clients looking to …

July 22, 2026, 3:02 AM ET George Soros has committed $32 billion to philanthropy. More than 250 wealthy people have signed the Giving Pledge, a promise to dedicate a majority of their wealth to philanthropy. But many haven’t followed through on it, spurring criticism from one of the Giving Pledge’s founders, Melinda French Gates. “Have they given enough? No,” French Gates said in an interview with Wired published in December 2025, referring to her fellow billionaire class and those who have

Bill Gates and staff at his charitable foundation had roughly 30 meetings with Jeffrey Epstein from 2011 to 2014 to discuss establish a donor-advised fund to support public health.

The investigation’s results come after Warren Buffett declined to make his regular donation to the foundation due to Bill Gates’ ties to Epstein.

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Jul 14, 2026 13:11 GMT Investing.com -- Warren Buffett plans to dispose of his entire Berkshire Hathaway Inc. stake within eight years through donations to four charitable foundations, the 95-year-old chairman said Tuesday. Buffett converted 8,000 Class A shares into 12 million Class B shares to donate to foundations run by his three children and one named after his late wife. The Sherwood Foundation, Howard G. Buffett Foundation and NoVo Foundation will each receive 1 million shares. The Susan

July 17, 2026, 8:18 AM ET Warren Buffett, chairman and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., speaks at the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Berkshire Hathaway founder Warren Buffett was a philanthropist before he was a billionaire. Even before the famed investor was worth current estimates of $147 billion, the Oracle of Omaha planned to give away any money he accrued. Buffett said that in his 20s, when he met and

Over the past few decades, the billionaire Wisconsin businesswoman Diane Hendricks has given tens of millions to Republican candidates and organizations in state and out to help the party win elections.