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 | |
| Facebook page | californiainstituteoftechnology |
| Website | http://www.caltech.edu |
| Twitter username | Caltech |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology |
| Instagram username | caltechedu |
| Org Watch page | https://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=California+Institute+of+Technology |
Full donee page for donee California Institute of Technology
| 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 | 26 | 471,918 | 863,927 | -49,650 | 0 | 85,000 | 100,000 | 360,000 | 471,918 | 790,060 | 1,191,029 | 1,657,655 | 2,047,110 | 4,161,534 |
| Global health | 18 | 119,468 | 871,488 | -49,650 | 0 | 10,000 | 85,000 | 100,000 | 119,468 | 471,918 | 1,500,000 | 2,004,091 | 2,309,968 | 4,161,534 |
| Sanitation | 8 | 790,060 | 846,915 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 360,000 | 765,000 | 790,060 | 790,060 | 846,360 | 1,075,216 | 1,191,029 | 1,657,655 | 1,657,655 |
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 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global health (filter this donor) | 18 | 15,686,781.54 | 450,000.00 | -50,168.48 | 2,045,254.62 | 615,053.00 | 1,585,000.00 | 2,439,436.40 | 5,926,197.00 | 571,918.00 | 2,104,091.00 |
| Sanitation (filter this donor) | 8 | 6,775,319.60 | 0.00 | 1,657,655.00 | 0.00 | 2,827,449.00 | 765,000.00 | 1,165,215.60 | 360,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 26 | 22,462,101.14 | 450,000.00 | 1,607,486.52 | 2,045,254.62 | 3,442,502.00 | 2,350,000.00 | 3,604,652.00 | 6,286,197.00 | 571,918.00 | 2,104,091.00 |
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 26) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 450,000.00 | 15 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a Micro‐Electro‐Mechanical System as a portable and reliable microbial monitoring system that can be integrated into safe and sustainable sanitation solutions in the developing world and enable onsite testing for pathogens; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India|China|South africa. | |
| -49,650.28 | 26 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a novel vector for HIV vaccines based on non-integrating lentivirus vectors that directly target the specialized cells that present antigens to the immune system; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,657,655.00 | 6 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support ongoing development of the Caltech Solar Toilet technology and to identify and test further cost reductions in order to help make the technology available and accessible to the poor in developing countries; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -518.20 | 24 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop, demonstrate, and deliver a novel fully-integrated sample preparation module that accepts patient specimens and prepares them for subsequent quantitative PCR (qPCR) amplification and detection; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -1,855.38 | 25 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support improving potency and breadth of natural bNabs from HIV-infected humans using structure-based design; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 2,047,110.00 | 3 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a Micro‐Electro‐Mechanical System as a portable and reliable microbial monitoring system that can be integrated into safe and sustainable sanitation solutions in the developing world and enable onsite testing for pathogens; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India|China|South africa. | |
| 790,060.00 | 11 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to advance the "Reinvented Toilet" technology from early prototypes to beta-level prototypes that can be manufactured commercially with the goal of providing improved sanitation to developing countries in Africa, South Asia, Southeast Asia, the Philippine; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India. | |
| 846,360.00 | 10 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the overall engineering design and operational efficiency of sustainable-toilet prototypes in order to improve sanitary conditions in the developing world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India|United states of america (the). | |
| 615,053.00 | 13 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop reagents for HIV-1 based diagnostics that are high performance, and are also stable in harsh environments, with plans to adapt those reagents into multiplexed and quantitative point-of-care diagnostics platforms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,191,029.00 | 8 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop water treatment and reuse practices to be implemented on-site in an energy sustainable and economical manner to benefit the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don’t have access to safe, affordable sanitation; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India. | |
| 1,500,000.00 | 7 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop, demonstrate, and deliver a novel fully-integrated sample preparation module that accepts patient specimens and prepares them for subsequent quantitative PCR (qPCR) amplification and detection; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 765,000.00 | 12 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 85,000.00 | 21 | Global health/Health education | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 119,468.40 | 17 | Global health/Health education | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,075,215.60 | 9 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 90,000.00 | 20 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 10,000.00 | 23 | Global health/Health education | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 2,309,968.00 | 2 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support improving potency and breadth of natural bNabs from HIV-infected humans using structure-based design; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,724,663.00 | 5 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop reagents for HIV-1 based diagnostics that are high performance, and are also stable in harsh environments, with plans to adapt those reagents into multiplexed and quantitative point-of-care diagnostics platforms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 4,161,534.00 | 1 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop, demonstrate, and deliver a novel fully-integrated sample preparation module that accepts patient specimens and prepares them for subsequent quantitative PCR (qPCR) amplification and detection; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 360,000.00 | 16 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 40,000.00 | 22 | Global health/Health education | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to transform the non-urban toilet into a sustainable, fossil-fuel-free self-contained treatment system for improved sanitation and hygiene with the goal of improving overall health and water quality; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 471,918.00 | 14 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to engineer immunity against HIV and other dangerous pathogens. Engineering Immunity Against HIV and Other Dangerous Pathogens. Investment start date: 7/1/2005 to end date: 9/30/2011. Grantee name: California Institute of Technology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 18 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to build stable, low-cost protein capture agents to target proteins in an effort to replace expensive and unstable monoclonal antibodies that are currently needed for diagnostic tests; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 18 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to evaluate the feasibility of using a “microscope on a chip” along with a hand-held reader to detect and analyze cells and parasites in bodily fluids. This technology could provide diagnostic capabilities for a wide range of diseases.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 2,004,091.00 | 4 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a novel vector for HIV vaccines based on non-integrating lentivirus vectors that directly target the specialized cells that present antigens to the immune system; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. |