Overview

• Buffett converted 8,239 Class A shares into more than 12.3 million Class B shares for this donation.
• Roughly 9.4 million of the converted shares went to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and the remainder to four other Buffett-funded charities.
• The $6 billion contribution is his largest annual donation since launching the program in 2006.
• His lifetime giving to these foundations now exceeds $60 billion, a sum larger than the GDP of many countries.
• His will directs about 99.5 percent of his estate to philanthropic use, with a posthumous trust overseen by his heirs or designated trustees.