Here's Who Inherited Betty White's Fortune After She Died

Details are scarce about exactly which charities received Betty White's money, but during her lifetime, she supported the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association (where she once served as a trustee for four decades), American Humane, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Endangered Wolf Center, and BraveHearts Therapeutic Riding and Educational Center (via CNN). In fact, before her Hollywood aspirations, she wanted to be a forest ranger or zookeeper — a dream the Forest Service helped come true when it made her an honorary ranger. "Back when I started, girls couldn't be forest rangers," she said in a 2012 interview with Smithsonian Magazine. "But now they made me an honorary one, made it very official, and I was deeply honored." As for zookeeping, she said, "I have been such a zoo nut all my life that I am practically a zookeeper."

In the same interview, White said she learned her love of animals from her parents. "Both my mother and father were tremendous animal lovers," she said. "They imbued in me the fact that, to me, there isn't an animal on the planet that I don't find fascinating and want to learn more about." White's passion for animal welfare went so far as to assist with a sea otter surgery at the Monterey Bay Aquarium, People reported. When she died, the aquarium wrote on X, formerly Twitter, "To honor her tireless devotion to animal advocacy work, we are renaming our planned giving program the Betty White Ocean Legacy Circle. Thank you for being a friend to so many, Betty, and for always reminding us that good things happen when we work together to make a difference."

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