A year and a half after Melinda French Gates resigned from the Gates Foundation, new tax filings show that she and her ex-husband, Bill Gates, opted for an unusual giving structure to the organization in her final year.

French Gates donated $502 million in January 2024—five months before her June departure—in what will perhaps be her final gift to the high-profile foundation she cofounded with her ex-husband in 2000.

Gates, meanwhile, gave just a fraction of that: $94 million to the trust that funds the foundation and $10 million to the organization itself. That’s significantly less than he had contributed in recent years, especially 2022, when his $20.1 billion donation became

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