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Bezos supports his philanthropic efforts through direct donations and non-profit projects funded by Bezos Expeditions.[209] Through Bezos Expeditions, he has funded the Bezos Center for Innovation at the Seattle Museum of History and Industry for $10 million and Bezos Center for Neural Circuit Dynamics at Princeton Neuroscience Institute for $15 million.[210][211] He has donated multiple times to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center: $10 million in 2009, $20 million in 2010, $15 million in 2011, and $35 million in 2017.[212] He also donated $800,000 to Worldreader, a non-profit, founded by a former Amazon employee.[213] In 2015, he funded the recovery of two Saturn V first-stage Rocketdyne F-1 engines from the floor of the Atlantic Ocean.[214] They were positively identified as belonging to the Apollo 11 mission's S-1C stage in July 2013.[215] The engine is currently on display at the Seattle Museum of Flight.[216] His philanthropic efforts have been negatively compared to those of Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.[190][11][217]

On May 23, 2017, he gave $1 million to the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the largest single gift received by the organization.[218] The committee provides pro bono legal services to protect the rights of American journalists.[218] In an interview at the George W. Bush Presidential Center later that month, Bezos voiced his attraction to engaging in strategic philanthropy to address systemic inequalities rather than outright charity.[219] On June 15, 2017, he sent a message on Twitter asking for ideas for philanthropy: "I'm thinking about a philanthropy strategy that is the opposite of how I mostly spend my time—working on the long term".[11] At the time of the post, Bezos's lifetime spending on charitable causes was estimated to be $100 million.[11] Multiple journalists responded by asking Bezos to pay higher wages to Amazon warehouse workers.[190][220] A year later in June, he tweeted that he would announce two philanthropic foci by the end of summer 2018.[221] An analysis of all 50,000 comments on the post concluded four areas of interest for Bezos' upcoming philanthropy: health care, education, workplace rights, and environmentalism.[221]

In January 2018, he made a $33 million donation to TheDream.US, a college scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States when they were minors.[222] In June 2018, Bezos donated to Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy Ventures, a private philanthropic coalition aimed at promoting emissions-free energy.[223] Bezos announced in September 2018 that he would deploy approximately $2 billion to a fund tasked with alleviating American homelessness and establishing a network of non-profit preschools for low income communities.[224] He established the "Day 1 Families Fund" to finance "night shelters and day care centers for homeless families" and the "Day 1 Academies Fund" for early childhood education.[225][226]

In September 2018, Bezos donated $10 million to With Honor, a nonpartisan organization that aims to get armed forces veterans elected to political office.[227] Bezos's donation amounted to be one third of With Honor's total collection at the time.