The Giving Pledge

The Giving Pledge is a charitable campaign, founded by Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates, and Warren Buffett, to encourage wealthy people to contribute a majority (i.e. more than 50%) of their wealth to philanthropic causes. As of October 2025, the pledge has more than 250 signatories from 30 countries. Most of the signatories of the pledge are billionaires, at a total of US$600 billion.

The campaign is intended to establish a social norm of charitable giving by the wealthy. In its early years, it was highly successful at attracting signatories, whereas the rate of new signatories has declined in recent years.

By 2026, Buffett's relationship with Bill Gates, who was acknowledged to have at one point had ties to Jeffrey Epstein, had become severely strained, with Buffett also severing his decades long partnership with the Gates Foundation.