Several of us suggested Buffett should have severed all relationships with the Gates F. 5 years ago.

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Buffett makes his largest annual contribution of Berkshire stock every June and last year he gave away about $6 billion in Class B shares after converting them from A stock.

Since 2006, Warren Buffett has donated about $48 billion to the Gates Foundation.

A potential halt in Buffett’s funding could impact the Gates Foundation, which gave away $8.5 billion in 2025.

Warren Buffett has been the biggest outside donor to Bill Gates’ philanthropic work for the past 20 years, giving about $48 billion. Soon, he’ll say whether he’s going to keep making an annual contribution after he learned more about Gates’ ties to sexual predator Jeffrey Epstein in publicly released emails earlier this year.

The Gates Foundation has been the largest recipient of Buffett’s yearly giving since he began donating his Berkshire Hathaway
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stock in 2006.

Buffett told CNBC in an interview in late March that he hadn’t made up his mind about continuing the Gates foundation gifts.

Buffett was asked by CNBC anchor Becky Quick: “If you don’t give the money to the Gates Foundation, are you in violation of the pledge that you made? Or if you do give the money, are you condoning the behavior that has taken place?"
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