Warren Buffett

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published lifetime award totals; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. TIDES FOUNDATION322 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$163.7M
2. NAF HOTLINE FUND6 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$126.9M
3. BUFFETT EARLY CHILDHOOD FUND6 grants · FY2023–FY2025 ·statutory$90.5M
4. UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION61 grants · FY2023–FY2025 ·statutory$77.9M
5. HEALTH DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA AND THE CARIBBEAN2 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$67.3M
6. ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS20 grants · FY2022–FY2024 ·statutory$62.6M
7. PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC9 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$54.4M
8. CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH TRAINING (CIRHT)3 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$51.7M

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Disclosed stock gifts · SEC Form 4

• 2026-07-149,000,000BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$4.31B
• 2026-07-141,000,000BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$479.2M
• 2026-07-141,000,000BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$479.2M
• 2026-07-141,000,000BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$479.2M
• 2026-05-22160BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$77K
• 2026-05-1818,646BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$8.9M
• 2026-05-1818,646BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$8.9M
• 2025-11-101,500,000BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC Class B Common Stock≈$754.1M

Showing 8 of 219 disclosed gifts · 2006–2026

Shares this person disclosed giving away, filed within two business days — the freshest evidence on this site, and years ahead of any tax return. Two limits are load-bearing: Form 4 does not name the donee, so these shares may have reached an independent charity or a foundation the family controls; and gift rows file at a price of zero, so values shown are estimates at the nearestquarter-end price implied by SEC Form 13F filings (a median across thousands of independent managers, public domain) — not the price on the gift date. They are therefore counted in none of the money lines above.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseno donor-published database loaded0/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $3,863,616,24230/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $3,863,616,242 filed15/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202515/15

US private foundations must name material grantees on Form 990-PF, so recipient-level detail here is compelled, not volunteered.

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 2 founder-linked via Wikidata

• The Giving Pledgeno EIN claim
• biBERK Business Insuranceno EIN claim

Provenance