The mercurial tech titan now presides over a multibillion-dollar foundation. Here’s a look at where its grants went in 2022, and at Musk’s still-murky plans to set up a K-12 school and university in Texas.
Read MoreArtificial intelligence is on everyone’s mind now, but philanthropy has been boosting research or bracing for its implications for some time. Here are the major funders involved in the field.
Read MoreWhen the annals of today’s new Gilded Age philanthropy are written, where will Elon Musk stand relative to Bill Gates, MacKenzie Scott and the rest? And whose more expansive definition of philanthropy will win out?
Read MoreWhen MacKenzie Scott embarked on her innovative philanthropic project two years ago, we wondered if her approach would capture the imaginations of other tech billionaires. It didn’t. But what if it miraculously did?
Read MoreElon Musk donated $5.7 billion last year, leaving no indication of where it went. Rather than guess, we thought we’d pose a more interesting question—what would it look like if Musk actually became a good philanthropist?
Read MoreGrowing numbers of America’s super-wealthy are wading into giving to avert the climate crisis. Here’s a list of billionaires who are just getting started in climate funding, or otherwise signaling greater potential giving ahead.
Read MoreIt’s hard to speculate about the giving of someone as weird as the world’s current richest man. But despite his Trump-esque Twitter habit, in many ways, he’s just another billionaire.
The most progressive tax ever proposed looks like it won’t go through, and the senator who doomed it cited billionaires’ philanthropy as one reason why. And yet, philanthropy also resists higher payouts. Something has to give.
Read MoreProPublica recently divulged just how little some of America’s wealthiest pay in income tax. Many of the culprits are celebrated philanthropists, raising uncomfortable truths about charitable giving among the ultra-wealthy.
Read MoreThe Tesla and SpaceX founder recently stepped up his philanthropy with gifts to Texas schools, following a big donation to Khan Academy. Is the idiosyncratic billionaire the next big education donor?
Read MoreCorporations and their CEOs are increasingly taking an interest in carbon removal as a focus of their commitment on climate change. Is this an important niche or merely greenwashing? What role should philanthropy be playing?
Read MoreElon Musk has been tweeting about plans to expand his philanthropy, and now we have some details. He’s launching a new $100 million XPrize for carbon removal technology. We take a closer look at the details, pitfalls, and what’s next for Musk.
Read MoreElon Musk didn't get to be the richest human by following the crowd. After his recent call on Twitter for advice on how he might deploy his ballooning wealth, we speculate about what kind of philanthropist he might turn out to be.
Read MoreFast Grants, a new coronavirus research grantmaking program backed by tech industry wealth, responded to applications in just 48 hours, rather than months. We asked Tyler Cowen, the economist behind it, how it all came together.
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