Editing Gates Foundation (section)

==Financials==
The foundation explains on its website that its trustees divided the organization into two entities: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust. The foundation section, based in Seattle, US, "focuses on improving health and alleviating extreme poverty", and its trustees are currently Bill and Melinda Gates; Warren Buffett announced his resignation as a trustee on June 23, 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Li|first=Yun|date=2021-06-23|title=Warren Buffett gives away another $4.1 billion, resigns as trustee at Gates Foundation|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4point1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation.html|access-date=2021-06-23|website=CNBC|language=en|archive-date=June 23, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623113115/https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/23/warren-buffett-gives-away-another-4point1-billion-resigns-as-trustee-at-gates-foundation.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The trust section manages "the investment assets and transfer proceeds to the foundation as necessary to achieve the foundation's charitable goals"—it holds the assets of Bill and Melinda Gates, who are the sole trustees, and receives contributions from Buffett.

The foundation posts its audited financial statements and [[Form 990#Fiduciary reporting|990-PF]] forms on the "Financials" section of its website as they become available. At the end of 2023, the foundation registered a cash sum of $194,354,000, and net assets of $71,290,995,000 (of which 99.84% are unrestricted).<ref>{{cite web |title=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Consolidated Financial Statements |url=https://docs.gatesfoundation.org/documents/billandmelindagatesfoundation_fs_2023.pdf |publisher=KPMG |access-date=November 23, 2024 |date=December 31, 2023}}</ref>

===Trust investments===
{{as of |2025|3|31}}, according to documents filed with the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]], the trust owned the following investments (close to 200 million shares) worth a total of almost $42 billion:<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dataroma.com/m/holdings.php?m=GFT |title=Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust Holdings Map |publisher=Dataroma |access-date=May 16, 2025}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"
|-
! scope="col" | Company
! scope="col" | Shares
! scope="col" | Value
! scope="col" | Portfolio
! scope="col" | Total
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Microsoft]]
| 28,457,247
| $10,862,566,000
| 25.87%
| rowspan=5 | 83.93%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Berkshire Hathaway]] (Class B)
| 17,172,435
| $9,145,695,000
| 21.78%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Waste Management (corporation)|Waste Management]]
| 32,234,344
| $7,462,573,000
| 17.77%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Canadian National Railway]]
| 54,826,786
| $5,343,419,000
| 12.73%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Caterpillar Inc.]]
| 7,353,614
| $2,425,222,000
| 5.78%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[John Deere]]
| 3,557,378
| $1,669,655,000
| 3.98%
| rowspan=5 | 11.85%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Ecolab]]
| 5,218,044
| $1,322,879,000
| 3.15%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Walmart]]
| 9,090,477
| $798,053,000
| 1.90%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[FedEx]]
| 2,534,362
| $617,827,000
| 1.47%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Coca-Cola FEMSA]]
| 6,214,719
| $567,342,000
| 1.35%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Waste Connections]]
| 2,149,175
| $419,497,000
| 1.00%
| rowspan=15 | 4.22%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Coupang]]
| 9,248,045
| $202,810,000
| 0.48%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Crown Castle]]
| 1,420,072
| $148,014,000
| 0.35%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Schrödinger, Inc.|Schrödinger]]
| 6,981,664
| $137,818,000
| 0.33%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Madison Square Garden Sports]]
| 592,406
| $115,353,000
| 0.27%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[AB InBev]]
| 1,703,000
| $104,837,000
| 0.25%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[McDonald's]]
| 334,900
| $104,613,000
| 0.25%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[West Pharmaceutical Services]]
| 444,500
| $99,515,000
| 0.24%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Paccar]]
| 1,000,000
| $97,370,000
| 0.23%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[United Parcel Service]]
| 755,089
| $83,052,000
| 0.20%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Kraft Heinz]]
| 2,622,600
| $79,806,000
| 0.19%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Danaher Corporation|Danaher]]
| 373,000
| $76,465,000
| 0.18%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Hormel Foods]]
| 2,195,290
| $67,922,000
| 0.16%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[On (company)|On Holding]]
| 500,000
| $21,960,000
| 0.05%
|-
| style="text-align:left;"| [[Veralto]]
| 124,333
| $12,116,000
| 0.03%
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#808080"| {{font color|white|25 companies}}
| style="background:#808080"| {{font color|white|197,103,480,000}}
| style="background:#808080"| {{font color|white|$41,986,379,000}}
| style="background:#808080"| {{font color|white|100%}}
| style="background:#808080"| {{font color|white|100%}}
|}