Elon Musk might be best known for his entrepreneurial endeavors, but the man also engages in philanthropy.
In 2002, the billionaire started his charity platform, the Musk Foundation, with his brother, Kimbal. In 2021, Musk donated $5.7 billion in Tesla shares to the foundation.
But its website appears to be fairly sparse for an organization endowed with billions of dollars from Musk’s fortune.
The Musk Foundation’s website is, essentially, just a white webpage with seven lines of text, with no graphics or videos. The site only lists the various causes the foundation supports, ranging from renewable energy and space exploration to artificial intelligence.
Musk Foundation
Its relatively plain design differentiates it from the slick webpages of other tech-billionaire-funded platforms, like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
The website’s simple graphic design doesn’t mean Musk isn’t sending funds the foundation’s way. According to a Bloomberg report in December 2022, the Musk Foundation donated $160 million to nonprofits in 2021, including $55 million to the St Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
However, on Sunday, The New York Times reported that about half of the Musk Foundation’s donations in 2021 and 2022 had links to Musk, his staff, or his businesses.
The Musk Foundation also regularly falls short of the minimum required donations under tax laws, The Times reported, citing tax filings it had obtained.
Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.
