Luke Anear says his children back his plan to leave most of his fortune to charity

Luke Anear says his three children are on board with a decision that could leave them without a large inheritance. The Mitti founder, whose business grew from a garage in Townsville into an enterprise valued at $2.5 billion, plans to direct most of his wealth to charity instead of passing it on to his family. The choice is presented not as a family falling-out, but as a shared understanding between Anear and his children. According to the report, they agree with his approach, which challenges the familiar expectation that a successful business owner will hand a substantial fortune down to the next generation. Anear’s rise began in modest surroundings: the company was built from a Townsville garage before expanding into a major business. The report describes the scale of that achievement while focusing on what he intends to do with the wealth it created. Rather than making inheritance the central legacy, he intends for charitable giving to take the largest share. The headline’s phrase, “just keeping score”, hints at a different idea of success: building a business may matter, but accumulating wealth for its own sake is not necessarily the end goal. Anear’s children, as described in the story, are not resisting the plan. Their agreement gives the decision a family dimension, suggesting the conversation has been settled between them. The report does not specify which charities will benefit, how the estate will be divided, or what individual arrangements have been made for the children. What it does say is that Anear expects most of his fortune to go to charity, and that his three children support that choice. For a founder whose company’s value is reported at $2.5 billion, the decision puts the question of what to do with success ahead of the usual inheritance script.