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Anthropic donations hit $540 million in 2025
Documents shared with potential investors said Anthropic topped up employee charity donations with company shares, lifting 2025 gifts to $540 million and costing the company more than $660 million in six months.
- The Information said it had obtained documents Anthropic shared with potential investors ahead of its planned IPO.
- Those documents said Anthropic let employees donate shares to charities and added company shares, with early employees receiving triple their donation's value.
- The documents said donations in 2025 totalled $540 million, compared with $115 million at Truist Financial and $109 million at BlackRock.
- They said the programme cost Anthropic more than $660 million between October 2025 and March 2026 and diluted other investors' shares.
- The documents said Dario Amodei and the six co-founders had pledged to give away at least 80 percent of their wealth.
The Information said it had seen IPO documents that Anthropic shared with potential investors. Those documents described a donation programme linked to employee shareholdings.
Employees were able to give shares to charities, and Anthropic added extra company shares to those gifts. The documents said early employees received three times the value of their donation.
According to the documents, donations in 2025 totalled $540 million. They put Truist Financial at $115 million and BlackRock at $109 million.
The company said the programme cost more than $660 million between October 2025 and March 2026. The documents said the payouts reduced other investors' holdings and could rise further if the share price kept increasing.
The documents also said Dario Amodei and the six co-founders had committed to giving away at least 80 percent of their wealth. Former colleagues told the article that some employees, who followed Effective Altruism principles, were already discussing where the money should go.
Named in this story
People
- Dario Amodei
- Anthropic's chief executive, who had pledged to give away at least 80 percent of his wealth
Companies
- Anthropic
- the company whose employee donation programme and IPO documents were discussed
- Truist Financial
- the next-largest Fortune 500 donor in the comparison cited in the documents
- BlackRock
- another Fortune 500 donor used for comparison
Organisations
- The Information
- the outlet that obtained the IPO documents and reported the figures
- Effective Altruism
- the set of principles that many employees reportedly followed
How the source tells it
The article used a celebratory, speculative register, with superlative framing and future projections presented as likely outcomes.
- hype a superlative claim about being the biggest donor and a promotional headline frame
- speculation future donation totals were projected on the assumption that the share price would keep rising