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title: Warren Buffett Ends a Two-Decade Partnership With the Gates Foundation Over Epstein Ties
description: "\n\nTwenty years, forty-seven billion dollars, and a friendship that began on a Fourth of July weekend in 1991. This week, Warren Buffett walked away from his ..."
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-16T06:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-16T06:35:49.729Z
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For two decades, Warren Buffett's annual gift to the Gates Foundation was one of the most reliable transactions in modern philanthropy. Since making what he called an irrevocable pledge in 2006, he had handed over more than 47 billion dollars in Berkshire Hathaway stock, the single largest act of giving behind a partnership that helped define what a modern global health charity could look like. This week, that partnership ended.

On Tuesday, the 95 year old Berkshire chairman announced he was donating 6 billion dollars in Berkshire stock, roughly 12 million Class B shares, to four foundations run by his own family rather than to the Gates Foundation. The statement did not mention Bill Gates by name. It did not need to. The reason became clear the next morning, when Buffett sat down with CNBC's Becky Quick and explained, for the first time in public, why this year's gift was going somewhere else.

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