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 2025. 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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| 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
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Full donee page for donee Enclude, Ltd.
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| 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 | 10 | 598,263 | 2,886,498 | -216,000 | 0 | 45,117 | 395,672 | 593,496 | 598,263 | 2,739,000 | 2,761,000 | 5,000,000 | 6,948,436 | 10,000,000 |
| Financing | 6 | 593,496 | 3,026,935 | -216,000 | 0 | 45,117 | 45,117 | 593,496 | 593,496 | 2,739,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 10,000,000 | 10,000,000 |
| Agriculture | 1 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 | 395,672 |
| Financial policy and administrative management | 3 | 2,761,000 | 3,435,900 | 598,263 | 598,263 | 598,263 | 598,263 | 2,761,000 | 2,761,000 | 2,761,000 | 6,948,436 | 6,948,436 | 6,948,436 | 6,948,436 |
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 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2010 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financing (filter this donor) | 6 | 18,161,612.98 | 45,117.00 | -216,000.00 | 5,593,495.98 | 10,000,000.00 | 2,739,000.00 |
| Financial policy and administrative management (filter this donor) | 3 | 10,307,698.84 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 598,263.02 | 6,948,435.82 | 2,761,000.00 |
| Agriculture (filter this donor) | 1 | 395,672.00 | 395,672.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 10 | 28,864,983.82 | 440,789.00 | -216,000.00 | 6,191,759.00 | 16,948,435.82 | 5,500,000.00 |
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 10) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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| 395,672.00 | 8 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to strengthen the rural financial system in Ethiopia to address existing gaps for small holder farmers and improve the affordability of better quality agricultural inputs; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 45,117.00 | 9 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to evaluate the development of a potential fund focused on the digital financial services sector while creating support in the industry, and to encourage additional investment in digital financial services that will benefit and be accessible by the poor; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -216,000.00 | 10 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to facilitate inclusive financial transactions in India in an accessible, affordable and secure manner by connecting the last mile through a network of business correspondent outlets (BCOs); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India. | |
| 598,263.02 | 6 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the capacity of four microfinance banks in South Asia to deliver savings products to the poor more effectively, more profitably, and at a larger scale; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Pakistan|India|Bangladesh. | |
| 593,495.98 | 7 | Financing/Informal/semi-formal financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the capacity of four microfinance banks in South Asia to deliver savings products to the poor more effectively, more profitably, and at a larger scale; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Pakistan|India|Bangladesh. | |
| 5,000,000.00 | 3 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to facilitate inclusive financial transactions in India in an accessible, affordable and secure manner by connecting the last mile through a network of business correspondent outlets (BCOs); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India. | |
| 6,948,435.82 | 2 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to scale up United Bank Limited’s branchless banking platform in Pakistan in a way that encourages account uptake and usage among the poor and unbanked; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Pakistan. | |
| 10,000,000.00 | 1 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to work with BRAC Bank Limited to build bKash, a scalable mobile money platform that will allow poor Bangladeshis to store, transfer, and receive money safely via mobile phone; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh. | |
| 2,761,000.00 | 4 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the capacity of four microfinance banks in South Asia to deliver savings products to the poor more effectively, more profitably, and at a larger scale; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Pakistan|India|Bangladesh. | |
| 2,739,000.00 | 5 | Financing/Informal/semi-formal financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the capacity of four microfinance banks in South Asia to deliver savings products to the poor more effectively, more profitably, and at a larger scale; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Pakistan|India|Bangladesh. |