Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donates around $1.95bn worth of shares in his electric carmaker to charity last year. The donation of 11.6 million shares was described in a filing with US regulators as “a bona fide gift”.
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The filing did not name the recipient, or recipients, of the donation. Also on Wednesday, Mr Musk said that towards the end of this year would be a “good time” to find someone to succeed him as the chief executive of Twitter.
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A rating by the Chronicle of Philanthropy, which was created prior to Musk’s declaration, places him as the second-largest philanthropic donor in 2022. Bill Gates is ranked first in The Chronicle’s rating with gifts totaling $5.1 billion, followed by Michael Bloomberg with $1.7 billion.
According to Forbes’ real-time billionaire tracker, Musk’s net worth by the end of 2022 was $137 billion, thus the $1.9 billion was roughly 1.4% of that amount.
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The document lodged with the US Securities and Exchange Commission showed the donation was made between August and December last year. Mr. Musk, who is thought to have a net worth of $197.5 billion, has donated Tesla stock to charities before. In 2021, he gave out shares worth approximately $5.74 billion, according to a regulatory filing.
In addition, he announced on Twitter same year that he intended to give $10 million to Brownsville, Texas for “downtown revitalization” and $20 million to Cameron County schools. Because he believed the business should be in a secure position by the end of the year, he predicted that it would be a good idea to choose a new CEO around that time.