For nearly 60 years, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.A)(NYSE: BRK.B) CEO Warren Buffett has been running circles around Wall Street's most prominent stock indexes. Since ascending to the helm of Berkshire Hathaway in the mid-1960s, the Oracle of Omaha, as he's been dubbed, has managed an average annual return of 19.8% for his company's Class A shares (BRK.A) through the end of 2022. That's double the annualized total return, including dividends, of the S 500 over the same span.

While Buffett has been lauded for his investing prowess, he deserves an equal amount of credit for his charitable contributions. Between 2006 and 2021, Buffett served as a Trustee for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which is a nonprofit entity focused on fighting global poverty, disease, and inequity. Through 2022, Warren Buffett had contributed $36 billion to the trust. 

Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett. Image source: The Motley Fool.

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