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.
| 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
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| Website | http://www.ata.gov.et/ |
Full donee page for donee Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency
| Item | Value |
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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 | 14 | 1,350,000 | 1,530,427 | -1,141,719 | 0 | 249,963 | 449,500 | 600,992 | 1,350,000 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,690 | 2,500,000 | 3,992,511 | 7,142,476 |
| Agriculture | 13 | 1,350,000 | 1,532,811 | -1,141,719 | 0 | 249,963 | 398,588 | 600,992 | 1,350,000 | 1,399,985 | 1,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 3,992,511 | 7,142,476 |
| Disaster prevention and preparedness | 1 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 | 1,499,441 |
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 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (filter this donor) | 13 | 19,926,541.44 | 249,963.00 | 2,850,792.00 | 12,492,476.00 | 3,333,730.44 | 999,580.00 |
| Disaster prevention and preparedness (filter this donor) | 1 | 1,499,441.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,499,441.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 14 | 21,425,982.44 | 249,963.00 | 2,850,792.00 | 13,991,917.00 | 3,333,730.44 | 999,580.00 |
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 14) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249,963.00 | 12 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to enable the creation of tool that shows who is doing what, where, and with whom in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 3,992,511.00 | 2 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency in holistically addressing systemic issues in Ethiopia’s agriculture sector and reaching smallholder farmers with crops and livestock technologies and solutions that will improve productivity and; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| -1,141,719.00 | 14 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to benefit smallholder farmers in Africa by distilling key lessons and insights from the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange diagnostic for the public realm; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa. | |
| 1,500,000.00 | 4 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to further develop the Ethiopian economy through the enhancement of the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), elevating Ethiopia to middle income country status and enabling all Ethiopians to improve their economic status; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 2,500,000.00 | 3 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to test and validate the concept of an agribusiness accelerator in Ethiopia by providing finance and technical assistance to increase productivity and income of smallholder farmers; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 1,350,000.00 | 8 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to systematically link smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to domestic and international food systems to create more financially sustainable engagements for smallholder farmers; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 7,142,476.00 | 1 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency in holistically addressing systemic issues in Ethiopia’s agriculture sector and reaching smallholder farmers with crops and livestock technologies and solutions that will improve productivity and; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 1,499,441.00 | 6 | Disaster prevention and preparedness | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide emergency drought relief support by establishing a back-up seed supply; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 1,499,690.00 | 5 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to systematically link smallholder farmers in Ethiopia to domestic and international food systems to create more financially sustainable engagements for smallholder farmers; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| -15,444.56 | 13 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to address the food security challenge for both smallholder farmers and urban populations in Ethiopia by developing a tef planter machine; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 1,399,985.00 | 7 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to benefit smallholder farmers in Africa by distilling key lessons and insights from the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange diagnostic for the public realm; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa. | |
| 449,500.00 | 10 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to enable the creation of tool that shows who is doing what, where, and with whom in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 600,992.00 | 9 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to make high-quality, real-time and periodic data about Ethiopian agricultural institutions accessible to public and private-sector stakeholders through a web-based portal and analytics; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 398,588.00 | 11 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to address the food security challenge for both smallholder farmers and urban populations in Ethiopia by developing a tef planter machine; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. |