This Billion-Dollar Foundation Is the Latest Example of the Buffett Effect

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The Avenir Foundation goes from $1 million to $1 billion in a year.

In the last few years alone, Avenir has made three major awards to the Central City Opera.

The foundation's very biggest checks have been sent to another philanthropy controlled by the family.

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