melinda gates: Investment guru Warren Buffett topped the list, followed by Microsoft MSFT, -0.62% co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates; former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg; WMT, 0.28% Walmart founders the Waltons; and international financier George Soros, according to Market Watch. Amazon AMZN, -0.97% founder and CEO Jeff Bezos, who was recently unseated as the world's wealthiest man by Bill Gates, was not among the top 10 donors, ranking No. 23 out of 50. They are worried about early childhood education and eradicating disease, according to Forbes magazine's America's Top Givers of 2018. Buffett donated 3.4 billion in 2018; Bill and Melinda Gates gave out 2.6 billion and Michael Bloomberg donated 767 million. The Forbes 50 donors appeared to differ from their wealthy peers in one key regard They seem less interested in giving to religious causes. See also Jeff Bezos is proud' of ex-wife's pledge to give away over half of her 35 billion fortune Go get 'em Mac Kenzie' There were a few recurrent themes among the top 20 donors' priorities, according to the Forbes list universities, K-12 education, health-related causes, research to end various diseases, and criminal justice and prison reform.
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