Warren Buffett tops our list as the biggest giver for the fourth year in a row, with $56.7 billion in lifetime giving. The 93-year-old CEO of conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway–who also gave away the most in 2023–is on a mission to make sure that he doesn’t leave his heirs a fortune. “My children, along with their father, have a common belief that dynastic wealth, though both legal and common in much of the world including the United States, is not desirable,” Buffett wrote in a statement he issued in November to accompany a gift of Berkshire shares to four family charitable foundations. Still, he’s only donated 30 of his fortune, in part because the value of his Berkshire Hathaway stock keeps rising.br br MacKenzie Scott continues to give away billions of dollars a year faster than just about anyone else in the ranking, to a wide variety of nonprofits in the U.S. and countries like Brazil and India. In December, the novelist and former wife of Jeff Bezos published a list of the 360 nonprofits to which she’d donated a combined $2.15 billion during 2023. That brings her lifetime giving–in less than five years–to nearly $16.6 billion to 1,954 groups–more than all but four others on this list, all of whom have been at this for at least three times as many years. Scott, who received a 4 stake in Amazon as part of the divorce settlement with Bezos in 2019, now owns just under 2 of the company, per a recent regulatory filing.br br Read the full story on Forbes: br Forbes Daily Briefing shares the best of Forbes reporting on wealth, business, entrepreneurship, leadership and more. Tune in every day, seven days a week, to hear a new story. Subscribe here: br Fuel your success with Forbes. Gain unlimited access to premium journalism, including breaking news, groundbreaking in-depth reported stories, daily digests and more. Plus, members get a front-row seat at members-only events with leading thinkers and doers, access to premium video that can help you get ahead, an ad-light experience, early access to select products including NFT drops and more:br br br Stay Connectedbr Forbes newsletters: Forbes on Facebook: Forbes Video on Twitter: Forbes Video on Instagram: More From Forbes: br Forbes covers the intersection of entrepreneurship, wealth, technology, business and lifestyle with a focus on people and success.