Susan Dell shares household wealth with her husband Michael Dell, married since 1989. That shared fortune was worth nearly $150 billion in early December 2025 and rose to about $268-282 billion by September-October 2026. Susan Dell co-founded the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation with Michael Dell in 1999. The foundation is their private charitable organization, and she serves as board chair guiding its strategy.
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- How much is Susan Dell worth?
- How does she direct the family foundation?
- What was the $6.25 billion pledge for children?
- What did the UT Austin gifts support?
How much is Susan Dell worth?
Celebrity wealth trackers generally treat Susan Dell's net worth as shared household wealth with Michael Dell. According to the Associated Press, Michael Dell was worth nearly $150 billion on the Forbes real-time list in early December 2025, as reported in the Associated Press spotlight report. That figure moved sharply higher over the next year. According to Forbes, his fortune reached about $268-282 billion in September-October 2026, ranked No.
3-4 globally, as shown in the Forbes Real-Time Billionaires profile. The change shows daily stock-driven fluctuation. Readers should therefore treat any single number as a snapshot. It reflects household wealth on one day, not cash in hand.
How does she direct the family foundation?
Susan Dell has guided the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation for over 25 years as board chair. Her role centers on strategy and long-term priorities rather than day-to-day grant processing. According to the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation, the Dells have committed $10 billion to nonprofits and social enterprises in the U.S., India, Africa and Israel, described in the foundation biography.
The foundation manages over 800 active projects each year. Much of the early work focused on education. Before the latest large pledge, the Dells had disbursed $2.9 billion since 1999, largely for education programs.
What was the $6.25 billion pledge for children?
On Dec. 2, 2025, at the White House, Michael and Susan Dell pledged $6.25 billion to seed children's savings. The plan offered $250 deposits for 25 million children age 10 and under through Trump Accounts.
These accounts are tax-advantaged savings accounts intended to give young children an early financial start. The Dells' gift was designed to encourage families to claim and open the accounts. The scale makes it one of the largest private gifts tied to child savings. Its practical effect depends on enrollment, since families must take action to receive the deposit.
What did the UT Austin gifts support?
On April 21, 2026, Michael and Susan Dell became UT Austin's first billion-dollar donors. According to University of Texas at Austin UT News, their lifetime giving to the university surpassed $1 billion, as announced in the UT Austin announcement.
The gifts support health, education and research growth in Austin. Key uses include: Those projects link classroom support with medical care and high-performance computing. They concentrate much of the Dells' university giving in one city and institution.
- UT Dell Campus for Advanced Research
- UT Dell Medical Center, opening in 2030
- Scholarships and student housing
- Supercomputing resources