Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Diagnostics for All

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.

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
Best overview URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation
Facebook username gatesfoundation
LinkedIn username bill-&-melinda-gates-foundation
Websitehttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database
Twitter usernamegatesfoundation
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do
Grant application process pagehttps://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grantseeker-FAQ
Regularity with which donor updates donations datacontinuous updates
Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)irregular
Lag with which donor updates donations datamonths
Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)years
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL 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

Basic donee information

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Country

Full donee page for donee Diagnostics for All

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 8 100,000 835,765 -199,356 0 0 100,000 100,000 100,000 1,000,000 1,267,971 1,988,318 2,611,776 2,611,776
Global health 4 100,000 653,105 -199,356 0 0 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 2,611,776 2,611,776 2,611,776
Agriculture 2 -182,588 542,692 -182,588 0 0 0 0 0 1,267,971 1,267,971 1,267,971 1,267,971 1,267,971
Nutrition 1 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
Animal agriculture 1 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318 1,988,318

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010
Global health (filter this donor) 4 2,612,420.00 0.00 -199,356.00 0.00 0.00 2,611,776.00 100,000.00 100,000.00
Animal agriculture (filter this donor) 1 1,988,318.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,988,318.00 0.00
Agriculture (filter this donor) 2 1,085,383.00 -182,588.00 0.00 1,267,971.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Nutrition (filter this donor) 1 1,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 8 6,686,121.00 -182,588.00 -199,356.00 1,267,971.00 1,000,000.00 2,611,776.00 2,088,318.00 100,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (8 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 8)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-182,588.0072017-01-10Agriculture/agricultural developmenthttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support development of a low-cost field diagnostic for heat detection in bovine animals, in order to improve milk yields for smallholder farmers; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia.
-199,356.0082016-11-22Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- To facilitate the assessment of vaccination coverage in children in the developing world through the development and deployment of a rapid, non-invasive, ultra-low cost diagnostic assay for immune status against tetanus and measles.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,267,971.0032014-04-23Agriculture/agricultural developmenthttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support development of a low-cost field diagnostic for heat detection in bovine animals, in order to improve milk yields for smallholder farmers; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia.
1,000,000.0042013-07-24Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to combine paper-microfluidics and flexible-electronics technology to create devices that are point of care and quantitative, in order to lower access barriers associated with dependence on fixed infrastructure, like centralized clinical facilities and el; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
2,611,776.0012012-11-06Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- To facilitate the assessment of vaccination coverage in children in the developing world through the development and deployment of a rapid, non-invasive, ultra-low cost diagnostic assay for immune status against tetanus and measles.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052011-10-20Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a prototype device based on the combination of paper microfluidics and ultrathin, flexible electronics to quantitatively measure HIV viral load; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,988,318.0022011-02-18Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary serviceshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the development of low cost diagnostic tests for bacterial contamination of milk, cow pregnancy, and aflatoxin in maize to increase smallholder farmer's income; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052010-04-07Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a disposable paper-based diagnostic device embedded with ultrathin, photosensitive electronics to provide HIV viral loads via light transmittance detection; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.