Largest single private charitable donation
- Who
- Bill & Melinda Gates
- What
- 6000000000 US dollar(s)
- Where
- United States (Seattle,)
- When
- August 1999
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and his wife Melinda donated $6 billion £4.2 billion to their charitable foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in August 1999.
The foundation incorporates two separate charities established by Gates: the Gates Learning Foundation and the William H. Gates Foundation, and donates funds to global healthcare programmes, education, libraries and local community causes in the Seattle region.