The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation received $10.4 million dollars in donations last year

according to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation report this last received last year 10.4 millions dollars in donations from the public this without counting of course the donations from Bill Gates his wife Melinda or this friend the super Billionaire Warren Buffett who always was generous in donations to charities and Bill gates foundation in particular , we recall him giving $1.8 billion worth of his Berkshire Hathaway stock last year to Bill Gates 's foundation ...The foundation started accepting donations from the public after it received its first donation from the oracle of Omaha and close friend of bill and Melinda Gates Warren Buffett in 2007 , it has since then been able to raise billions of dollars and fund developments projects and charities all around the globe
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Report can be Found here http://www.gatesfoundation.org/annualreport/2008/Pages/2008-annual-report.aspx