Larry Ellison undertook to give 95% of his fortune of $ 393 billion – what we know

Ellison undertook to give 95% of his wealth in the framework of the commitment of donations in 2010. Since then, he has moved away from traditional non -profit organizations and says that he chooses to give wealth to his own conditions. He founded the Ellison Institute of Technology (EIT), a for -profit philanthropic organization at the University of Oxford.

But the EIT of Ellison has recently been destabilized by changes in leadership, according to a report in The New York Times. In 2024, he hired scientist John Bell to direct research. But in August, Ellison announced that he had hired the former president of the University of Michigan, Santa Ono, to “collaborate” with Bell. Two weeks later, Bell announced his departure from the “very difficult project”.

Time Reports There are tensions on “how to best market the scientific research of Mr. Ellison, as well as persistent questions about the amount that the Institute could trust Mr. Ellison to engage in his financial commitments.”

Here is what we know – and don’t do it – on Ellison’s plans to possibly give her fortune.

Net value (2025)

• Estimated at $ 393 billion In September 2025.
• Most of its wealth arise from his 41% in Oracle and an important participation in Tesla.

Philanthropy and plans to give

• Its main philanthropic objective is through the Ellison Institute of Technology, which aims to solve global problems such as health care, food insecurity, climate change and AI progress, with a new major campus opening in Oxford worth around 1.3 billion dollars.
• In the past, Ellison has donated hundreds of millions to establish research and processing centers, including a contribution of $ 200 million at the University of South California for a cancer research center and around $ 1 billion in total to the Ellison medical foundation (now closed), mainly for medical research.

Amounts already given and future commitment

• Direct charitable disbursements are lower than those of certain peers, but commitments to donation commitment and the total of the Ellison Institute in billions.
• Knowledge known contributions:
  • 200 million dollars at the USC for cancer research.
  • More than a billion dollars in aging and disease prevention through the Ellison Medical Foundation, before removing it.
  • $ 1.3 billion to the Oxford Ellison Institute campus, which opens by 2027.
• He continues to indicate almost all his fortune will ultimately be directed towards philanthropic causes – in his own terms and chronology.

Ellison’s net value reached record heights in 2025, and although he has committed to giving almost all of this, his gifts are only structured – focusing on major autonomous projects such as the Ellison Institute, rather than in a large public charity.

For this story, Fortune Used a generative AI to help an initial project. An editor checked the accuracy of the information before the publication.