I heard that Gates gives a lot of money anonymously to avoid public attention. He, like other very wealthy people, know that if such things were public, people would start begging them or expecting money from them. Anonymous donations are a way of limiting expectations from others that could be constricting.
If true, I doubt there would be an tax breaks either.
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