Beast Philanthropy, the charity arm led by YouTuber MrBeast (Jimmy Donaldson), has funded five mobile medical clinics built from 40-foot shipping containers and deployed to Texas, Massachusetts, Nigeria, Ukraine and Kenya. The clinics were built by Texas A&M's student nonprofit BUILD and are projected to serve more than 10,000 people a year, according to the university and news reports.
Beast Philanthropy, the nonprofit arm of content creator Jimmy Donaldson (MrBeast), has financed five portable medical clinics converted from 40-foot shipping containers. The clinics were built by BUILD, a student-run nonprofit founded in 2013 at Texas A&M University, and were shipped to Chester, Texas; Worcester, Massachusetts; Nigeria; Ukraine; and Kilifi County, Kenya, according to Texas A&M's official account of the project and local news coverage.
How the clinics were built
BUILD converts empty 40-foot shipping containers into what it calls Texas Aggie Medical Clinics, or TAMCs, with separate spaces for patient triage, laboratory testing and private treatment, Texas A&M's stories.tamu.edu reports. Each container is dedicated to a specific sponsor and destination before student volunteers begin construction. Houston-based nonprofit Medical Bridges then outfits the finished units with surplus medical equipment and supplies, the university said.
The partnership began with a direct message a BUILD student sent to the Beast Philanthropy social account in late 2023, which the organization says received a reply within 30 minutes. Formal paperwork was completed in mid-2024, and the collaboration was made public in a Beast Philanthropy video in April 2026, per Texas A&M and community reporting.
Where the five clinics went and what they do
Each of the five Beast Philanthropy-funded clinics serves a different need. In Chester, Texas, the container functions as a telehealth center offering remote doctor consultations, according to SSBCrack News. The Worcester, Massachusetts unit is expected to provide free health, vision and dental screenings to roughly 40 families a week. In Nigeria, the clinic is intended to expand access to open-heart surgery for children, with local organizers projecting it will reach about 2,000 people a year. The Ukraine clinic, deployed in partnership with the Daar Foundation near front-line areas, supplies healthcare providers with essential medical equipment. In Kilifi County, Kenya, the clinic works with nonprofit Hope Walks to treat children born with clubfoot using a non-surgical, gradual-casting method.
The five Beast Philanthropy-funded clinics
Location
Partner organization
Main service
Chester, Texas (US)
Medical Bridges
Telehealth consultations with remote doctors
Worcester, Massachusetts (US)
Medical Bridges
Free health, vision and dental screenings, ~40 families/week
Nigeria
Medical Bridges
Access to open-heart surgery for children, ~2,000 people/year projected
Ukraine
Daar Foundation
Medical supplies for providers near front-line areas
Kilifi County, Kenya
Hope Walks
Non-surgical clubfoot treatment for children
Scale of the impact claimed
BUILD says the five new clinics are projected to help more than 10,000 people annually, and that more than 2,500 people had already been reached by the time filming for the announcement video wrapped, according to Community Impact and SSBCrack News. SSBCrack News also cites a cost range of $50,000 to $117,000 for open-heart surgery in the United States as context for why access abroad matters, though that figure was not independently verified against a primary U.S. pricing source in this review.
Since its 2013 founding, BUILD says its students have built 60 TAMCs with help from more than 20,000 Aggie volunteers, reaching over 200,000 people across 24 countries, Texas A&M reports. Community Impact notes 20 of those clinics already serve developing nations. Texas A&M's account of the project adds that the number of Texas counties lacking adequate medical access fell from 33 to 31 as a result of the group's domestic work.
The program builds these leaders and these students up to go take on these world challenges.
— Chris Permetti, BUILD CFO, quoted by Texas A&M and Community Impact
Background: Beast Philanthropy and MrBeast's wider ventures
Beast Philanthropy, launched in 2020, says it has donated more than $300 million to charitable causes and pledges 100% of its profits to philanthropy, according to Texas A&M's account of the partnership. The clinics project sits alongside Donaldson's expanding commercial operations: Fortune reported in October 2026 that Beast Industries, his holding company founded in 2012, is valued at roughly $5 billion, employs more than 1,000 people, and spans a chocolate brand, a burger chain, a production company and the fintech app Step, which it acquired in February 2026. Fortune put Donaldson's personal net worth at about $2.6 billion and noted that former Shutterfly chief executive Jeffrey Housenbold now runs Beast Industries as CEO, with Donaldson remaining majority owner and creative head.
Fortune's report does not address the medical clinics directly, but it frames the philanthropic project as part of a broader shift: investor Steven Bartlett is quoted in the piece saying Donaldson is 'no longer an influencer... you're a cofounder,' describing Beast Industries' structure as resembling a Fortune 500 holding company.
Questions
How many clinics did MrBeast's charity fund, and where are they?
Beast Philanthropy funded five clinics, sent to Chester, Texas; Worcester, Massachusetts; Nigeria; Ukraine; and Kilifi County, Kenya, according to Texas A&M University and Community Impact.
What is BUILD?
BUILD is a student-run nonprofit founded in 2013 at Texas A&M University that converts 40-foot shipping containers into mobile medical clinics called Texas Aggie Medical Clinics (TAMCs), deployed in the US and abroad.
How many people are the new clinics expected to help?
BUILD and Beast Philanthropy project the five clinics will serve more than 10,000 people a year combined, with over 2,500 already reached before an announcement video was finished, per Community Impact and SSBCrack News.
What specific service does each clinic provide?
Reported uses include telehealth in Texas, health/vision/dental screenings in Massachusetts, access to children's open-heart surgery in Nigeria, medical-supply support near front-line areas in Ukraine, and non-surgical clubfoot treatment for children in Kenya.
How did the partnership between MrBeast and BUILD start?
According to Texas A&M, a BUILD student sent a direct message to the Beast Philanthropy social media account in late 2023, got a reply within 30 minutes, finished agreements by mid-2024, and the project was announced publicly in an April 2026 video.
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