The Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation became one of the wealthiest foundation after Warren Buffet injected a major part of his fortune into it. However rich and noble the foundation is now, it still spends just about the earned interest of its capital for its causes.
Reading must be a healthy thing, as the Gates Foundation now helped the MediaNewsGroup by providing a loan to acquire some newspapers.
I'm sure, something will be able to explain why this helps curing diseases.