The headquarters of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is located in Seattle.
The foundation’s campus is in Seattle, Washington, the city most closely associated with Bill Gates’s early life and Microsoft’s origins. The organization works internationally, but its central administrative base remains in the Pacific Northwest.
The foundation funds programs involving global health, development, education, and policy. Its Seattle location places it near Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, although the two cities are separate municipalities in the Seattle metropolitan area.
Another common mix-up is Washington, D.C., because the foundation works with national governments and international policy institutions. Its headquarters, however, is in Seattle. The foundation was formed in its current broad structure in 2000 through the merger of earlier Gates family charitable organizations.