Bill Gates

Bill Gates is an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist born in 1955 who is based in Washington. He co-founded Microsoft and has an estimated net worth of ~$89.8 billion. Wikidata

Business & SEC Activity

Gates co-founded Microsoft, which develops software, cloud services, and devices, including Windows, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Wikidata

Philanthropy

2023 tax filings for the Gates Foundation and Gates Foundation Trust report combined grants paid of $7,793,675,503 and combined assets of $76,952,679,135. The Seattle-based Gates Foundation reported $7,793,604,635 in grants paid, $76,951,451,400 in assets, and $7,810,137,842 in revenue for that tax year. ProPublica 990

Political Activity

The available FEC data records at least 100 federal contributions; the reported $84,233.39 total covers only the most recent 100 contributions in the sample, not Gates’s full history. Within that sample, $11,600 went to Democratic recipients, $6,095.06 to Republican recipients, and $66,538.33 to PACs or other recipients; the largest listed recipients were NOOGA PAC and SAWTOOTH PAC, at $10,000 each. FEC

In the News

A NewsAPI report dated August 20, 2026, said the Gates Foundation awarded a $540.2 million, 10-year grant to the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. The funding is intended to expand health data availability and geographic detail and support the Global Burden of Disease study, health forecasting, and global health-spending research. NewsAPI