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Form 990-PF for tax year 2025

Filed by HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION.

Totals

Total revenue
$964,734,519
Total expenses
$717,420,050
Contributions and grants received
$523,678,864
Contributions, gifts and grants paid
$698,710,460
Fair market value of assets, end of year
$737,675,908

Listed in Part VIII

  • Howard G Buffett

    CHAIRMAN & CEO

    Total calculated
    $47,694
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    $47,694
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • Devon G Buffett

    Director

    Total calculated
    $28,136
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    $28,136
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10

  • Trisha A Cook

    Secretary

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    10

  • Heidi Heitkamp

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Michael D Walter

    DIRECTOR

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    2

  • Ann Kelly Bolten

    President

    Total calculated
    $730,743
    Compensation
    $707,725
    Benefit plans
    $23,018
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

  • Erin Morgan

    Director

    Total calculated
    $0
    Compensation
    $0
    Benefit plans
    not reported
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    1

  • Charlotte Ryan

    Treasurer

    Total calculated
    $232,036
    Compensation
    $210,125
    Benefit plans
    $21,911
    Expense account
    not reported
    Hours/week
    40

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))
$494,963,612
As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.
Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)
$698,710,460
The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the cash method, under which a grant is recorded when it is paid. Even so, the books total and the cash figures in this section can differ, and column (d) is sometimes filed as 0.

1 grant to an individual, $698,710,460. Counted where the foundation named the recipient as a person or marked it as an individual, as filed. Who received them, where, and why are not published.

Provenance

Return type
form_990_pf
Tax year
2025
Filed
12 May 2026
IRS schema version
2025v4.1
Source object
202611329349100526

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