Her charitable work has focused largely on the Sherwood Foundation and the Buffett Early Childhood Fund, organizations in Omaha that provide grants in public education, human services, and social justice in the interest of promoting the welfare of children from lower-income families.
[4] Her parents lived separately from the late 1970s onwards, though they remained married until her mother's death in 2004.
[6] In 1983, Buffett wed Allen Greenberg, a lawyer for Public Citizen, whom she had met in Washington.
[7] Buffett established the Sherwood Foundation in 1999 to fund local groups in the Omaha area.
[21] In 2021 it was announced that Buffett had joined the board of Berkshire Hathaway,[22] and two years later she and her two siblings were entrusted with the sizeable task of donating all their father's wealth to foundations of their choice following his death, at which time regular donations to the Gates Foundation will cease.