Gates Family Foundation

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The Gates Family Foundation[1] is one of the largest philanthropic organizations in Colorado, based in Denver.

Background

Founded in 1946, the Foundation currently has net assets[2] of approximately $500 million. In 2007, the Foundation paid roughly $20 million in grants, all of which went to Colorado recipients.

The source of the original endowment is the Gates Rubber Company of Denver, Colorado.

The Foundation is well known in Denver, for example including the Gates Planetarium at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science.[3]

In May 2022, The Gates Family Foundation announced a $200 million donation and collaboration project with the University of Colorado Anschutz. The Donation is to establish a medical research institute at the university’s Anschutz Medical Campus and is to be funded over five years by the Gates Family Foundation.[4]

Assets and funding details

As of 2018 the Gates Family Foundation had assets of $361,589,256.[5]

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