You are being too cynical.  He&#x27;s giving away stock not cash because if he sold the stock first to raise cash to donate, he&#x27;d have an enormous capital gains tax liability.  By gifting stock, he can gift a far greater amount and the tax-exempt recipient charity can sell the stock itself to raise cash.  This is standard in situations like this - e.g. it&#x27;s what Buffett did when gifting away almost all of his billions.<p>Also the cause you listed is just one of many that he is gifting to so you&#x27;re missing the forest for the trees.  To help overcome this, list all of the good causes he mentioned (personalized learning, curing disease etc), then list the ones that you don&#x27;t like.  I bet the list of good causes will be far longer than the list of ones you don&#x27;t like.