The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust, in 2024's fourth quarter, reduced its stake in some major companies and added multinational fast-food chain company McDonald's to its portfolio. The big companies from which the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust reduced its stake include Berkshire Hathaway and Microsoft. In 2006, the trustees of the renowned foundation made a two-entity structure in order to differentiate between its asset management and programmatic work. The adopted structure included both – the foundation that provides funds to grantees and the other part which looks after the endowment and finances.

The foundation's 13F filing for 2024's fourth quarter with the American Securities and Exchange Commission revealed the information.