Susan Dell is the one running the Dells’ $10 billion giving operation—and her biggest bets are on kids, health care, and UT Austin

Michael Dell is the sixth-richest man in the world with a net worth of about $232 billion. He and his wife, Susan, have given away about $10 billion of that fortune—and she is calling a lot of the shots on where the money goes. 

She is the co-founder and chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, established in 1999. The organization currently manages more than 800 projects worldwide each year, particularly in the U.S., Africa, India, Israel, and their home state of Texas, where they live on a sprawling 33,000-square-foot estate.

The organization’s focus areas are education, jobs and livelihood, and health—causes she’s cared about deeply since childhood. Her father was a surgical oncologist and “sparked her lifelong passion for health,” the foundation says. As a girl, she would even stop strangers at the grocery store to tell them not to smoke. 

“People matter to her,” Janet Mountain, head of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, said in a statement. And because people matter to her, solutions matter to her.” Mountain also previously served as an........

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