Buffett, Curry charity lunch fetches $9 million at eBay auction

A lunch with Warren Buffett, Stephen Curry and Ayesha Curry fetched $9,000,100 in a weeklong eBay auction, turning a simple meal into one of the year’s most valuable charity wins. The winning bidder, whose identity was not immediately known, also secured the right to bring up to seven guests.

The auction closed on May 14 at 7:30 p.m. PDT after opening on May 7, and the lunch is set for June 24 in Omaha, Nebraska, where Berkshire Hathaway is based. Buffett and the Curry family said Buffett will match the winning bid for both charities, which would lift the total donation to about $27 million and turn a single headline-grabbing sale into a far larger transfer of cash to two nonprofits with very different missions.

The proceeds will be split between GLIDE and Eat. Learn. Play., the foundation founded by Stephen Curry and his wife, Ayesha Curry. GLIDE’s work stretches beyond meals, reaching housing, health access and substance-use recovery for people in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. The organization has said many of its clients are unhoused, and that a large share are living with mental health conditions, substance-use problems or chronic health conditions. Eat. Learn. Play. focuses on nutrition, literacy and physical activity for children and families, aiming to provide nutritious meals, reading support and opportunities to play.

The $9,000,100 bid extended a long-running Buffett tradition that has become a rare blend of celebrity culture and philanthropy. The 2022 charity lunch auction had set the previous record at $19,000,100, and GLIDE and eBay said that auction marked the grand finale of the original run. Across 21 previous auctions, Buffett’s lunches had raised more than $53 million for GLIDE, a tally that underlines how much money can move when rarity is paired with a recognizable name and a tightly framed cause.

Buffett’s connection to GLIDE goes back decades, through his late first wife, Susan Buffett, who volunteered there. The nonprofit’s leaders have long tied that relationship to the mission first advanced by Cecil Williams and Janice Mirikitani at Glide Memorial Church, where the lunch auctions became a distinctive piece of Bay Area philanthropy. At 95, Buffett remains chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, even after Greg Abel became chief executive on January 1, 2026, keeping him central to the company’s identity and to the mythology of modern American capitalism.

The 2026 auction also widened its appeal by adding Ayesha Curry to the guest list, turning the lunch into a three-name draw rather than a one-on-one meeting. That combination of Buffett’s scarcity, Curry’s cross-generational star power and the social missions of GLIDE and Eat. Learn. Play. showed why fundraising at the highest level now depends as much on cultural reach as on wealth alone.