Bill Gates has made $2 billion in additional payments to his ex-wife Melinda French Gates’ foundations, part of a promise he made when she left the Gates Foundation in 2024.

Newly released nonprofit filings for that year show that Bill donated $982 million each to two of Melinda’s foundations, Pivotal Philanthropies Opportunities and Pivotal Philanthropies Momentum.

That’s in addition to $8.9 billion that Bill donated to two other foundations of Melinda’s, whose 2024 tax filings were previously released over the past two months. Forbes was the first to report a $7.9 billion gift to Pivotal Philanthropies, her main philanthropic vehicle. A $982 million donation to Pivotal Philanthropies Pathways was first reported by the New York Times.

The latest gifts bring the total that Bill has given to Melinda’s four foundations to $10.8 billion. That’s $1.7 billion shy of the $12.5 billion with which he agreed to fund her new endeavors when she resigned from their foundation in 2024—but according to a........

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