Susan Dell is the one running the Dells’ $10 billion giving operation—and her biggest bets are on kids, health care, and UT Austin

Michael Dell is the sixth-richest man in the world with a net worth of about $232 billion.

He and his wife, Susan, have given away about $10 billion of that fortune—and she is calling a lot of the shots on where the money goes.

She is the co-founder and chair of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, established in 1999.

The organization currently manages more than 800 projects worldwide each year, particularly in the U.S., Africa, India, Israel, and their home state of Texas, where they live on a sprawling 33,000-square-foot estate .

The organization’s focus areas are education, jobs and livelihood, and health—causes she’s cared about deeply since childhood.

Her father was a surgical oncologist and “sparked her lifelong passion for health,” the foundation says.

As a girl, she would even stop strangers at the grocery store to tell them not to smoke.

“People matter to her,” Janet Mountain , head of the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, said in a statement .

And because people matter to her, solutions matter to her.” Mountain also previously served as an executive at Dell before joining the foundation in 2003.

Recently, Susan has focused largely on the foundation’s livelihood pillar through the Dells’ commitment to Trump Accounts.

In December 2025, the couple committed $6.25 billion to provide $250 contributions to 25 million U.S. children.

The donation is intended to benefit children age 10 and under who aren’t eligible for the federal government’s separate $1,000 contribution for children born between 2025 and 2028.

The Dells’ money will go to children in ZIP codes with median incomes of $150,000 or less, giving millions of families a chance to start building wealth early.

“We believe that when children have a future that they can see is worth saving for, then that will help build hope and opportunity and prosperity for generations to come,” Susan said during the White House announcement in December.