This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation |
| Best overview URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation |
| Facebook username | gatesfoundation |
| LinkedIn username | bill-&-melinda-gates-foundation |
| Website | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database |
| Twitter username | gatesfoundation |
| Page on philosophy informing donations | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do |
| Grant application process page | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grantseeker-FAQ |
| Regularity with which donor updates donations data | continuous updates |
| Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | irregular |
| Lag with which donor updates donations data | months |
| Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | years |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/gates-foundation-iati-processing |
Brief history: The Gates Foundation launched in 2000, with precursors starting in the 1990s, financed by the personal wealth of co-founder Bill Gates from Microsoft. Starting 2005, it scaled up its giving significantly after a large funding commitment from Warren Buffett
Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: See https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/General-Information/Foundation-Factsheet for the grantmaking areas. The four grantmaking areas are the Global Development Program, Global Health Program, Global Policy and Advocacy, and United States Program. Within the United States Program the focus is on K-12 education, the Internet, and emergency relief
Notes on grant publication logistics: Although the Gates Foundation has a grants database on its website, as well as individual grant pages for every grant, we use the IATI data instead, because it can be processed programmatically (the data on the site does not allow for full data download or easy programmatic processing). This leads to a few problems: first, IATI data does not include grants made in the United States, since it focuses on development assistance (DA) spending. Second, IATI data is updated more infrequently. Third, it may sometimes omit some information that is present in the grants database
Full donor page for donor Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Website | https://www.bracusa.org/ |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRAC_USA |
Full donee page for donee BRAC USA
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 16 | 656,954 | 2,027,858 | -758,800 | 69,400 | 300,000 | 400,000 | 467,100 | 656,954 | 750,000 | 1,500,440 | 2,536,512 | 4,000,000 | 17,208,219 |
| Sanitation | 2 | -758,800 | 8,224,710 | -758,800 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17,208,219 | 17,208,219 | 17,208,219 | 17,208,219 | 17,208,219 |
| Global health | 1 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 | 69,400 |
| Material relief assistance and services | 6 | 400,000 | 477,850 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 467,100 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 750,000 | 750,000 |
| Agriculture | 1 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 | 432,900 |
| Disaster prevention and preparedness | 3 | 1,500,440 | 1,564,635 | 656,954 | 656,954 | 656,954 | 656,954 | 1,500,440 | 1,500,440 | 1,500,440 | 2,536,512 | 2,536,512 | 2,536,512 | 2,536,512 |
| Women's equality organisations and institutions | 1 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 | 999,865 |
| Multisector aid | 2 | 2,933,139 | 3,466,570 | 2,933,139 | 2,933,139 | 2,933,139 | 2,933,139 | 2,933,139 | 2,933,139 | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 | 4,000,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Total | 2017 | 2016 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sanitation (filter this donor) | 2 | 16,449,419.00 | 0.00 | -758,800.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 17,208,219.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Multisector aid (filter this donor) | 2 | 6,933,139.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 4,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,933,139.00 |
| Disaster prevention and preparedness (filter this donor) | 3 | 4,693,906.00 | 1,500,440.00 | 0.00 | 656,954.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,536,512.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Material relief assistance and services (filter this donor) | 6 | 2,867,100.00 | 1,700,000.00 | 400,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 300,000.00 | 0.00 | 467,100.00 |
| Women's equality organisations and institutions (filter this donor) | 1 | 999,865.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 999,865.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Agriculture (filter this donor) | 1 | 432,900.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 432,900.00 |
| Global health (filter this donor) | 1 | 69,400.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 69,400.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 16 | 32,445,729.00 | 3,200,440.00 | -358,800.00 | 656,954.00 | 4,000,000.00 | 17,208,219.00 | 3,836,377.00 | 69,400.00 | 3,833,139.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 16) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 250,000.00 | 14 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide urgent and immediate relief to those affected by the Rohingya humanitarian crisis; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 1,500,440.00 | 5 | Disaster prevention and preparedness | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to build disaster preparedness model and emergency response capacity building of local actors and country programs prone to disasters; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 750,000.00 | 7 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide urgent and immediate relief to those affected by the Rohingya humanitarian crisis; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 700,000.00 | 8 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to respond to effects of Haor flooding and Cyclone Mora in Bangladesh. Emergency Response to Floods and Cyclone in Bangladesh. Investment start date: 6/5/2017 to end date: 11/30/2018. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| -758,800.00 | 16 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop sustainable sanitation delivery models to improve the living conditions of people living in rural areas of Bangladesh; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 400,000.00 | 12 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide critical support to communities most affected by Tropical Storm Roanu in Bangladesh; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 656,954.00 | 9 | Disaster prevention and preparedness | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop BRAC's International Emergency Preparedness Program. International Emergency Preparedness Program. Investment start date: 5/28/2013 to end date: 6/30/2017. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Sierra leone|Afghanistan|Bangladesh|Uganda|Pakistan|South sudan|Tanzania, united republic of|Liberia. | |
| 4,000,000.00 | 2 | Multisector aid | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | for general operating support. General Operating Support. Investment start date: 8/1/2012 to end date: 9/30/2014. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 17,208,219.00 | 1 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop sustainable sanitation delivery models to improve the living conditions of people living in rural areas of Bangladesh; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 999,865.00 | 6 | Women's equality organisations and institutions | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the development of an innovative fair-trade social enterprise for underprivileged women in Bangladesh; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 2,536,512.00 | 4 | Disaster prevention and preparedness | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support a program for capacity building for disaster management and response. Developing BRAC’s Emergency Response Capacity in Bangladesh. Investment start date: 8/18/2009 to end date: 3/1/2013. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 300,000.00 | 13 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide emergency response to cyclone Aila in Bangladesh. Bangladesh cyclone AILA response. Investment start date: 6/3/2009 to end date: 6/2/2010. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 69,400.00 | 15 | Global health/Health policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to scale up an essential strategy to attaining good health for all. To convene an international conference on the scaling up of health programs in the developing world by improving the effectiveness of the delivery of interventions, and expanding effectiv; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 467,100.00 | 10 | Material relief assistance and services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reach affected victims in Bangladesh. Emergency Relief for Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. Investment start date: 12/11/2007 to end date: 6/11/2008. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 432,900.00 | 11 | Agriculture/agricultural inputs | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reach affected victims in Bangladesh. Emergency Relief for Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh. Investment start date: 12/11/2007 to end date: 6/11/2008. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 2,933,139.00 | 3 | Multisector aid | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide general operating support. General Operating Support. Investment start date: 8/15/2007 to end date: 11/30/2009. Grantee name: BRAC USA; Aid type: Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes. Affected regions: South & Central Asia. |