Jeff Bezos hands $684 mn of Amazon stock to nonprofits from his foundation

The Amazon founder has given away stock worth $856 million this year, which estimates his fortune at $183.6 billion

Jeff Bezos gave $684 million of Amazon.com Inc. stock to non-profits, days after posting on Instagram that he’d chosen 16 organizations to be the first recipients of money from the Bezos Earth Fund.

The world’s richest man donated 220,825 shares of the e-commerce juggernaut, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Amazon founder has given away stock worth $856 million this year, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, which estimates his fortune at $183.6 billion.

Bezos announced the Earth Fund in February as a $10 billion endeavor to combat climate change. On Monday he named the first