Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Gordon Research Conferences

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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
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Research_Conferences

Full donee page for donee Gordon Research Conferences

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 24 36,150 37,861 5,000 11,271 22,650 25,000 25,560 36,150 46,120 50,000 50,580 63,630 68,500
Global health 23 45,000 38,522 5,000 11,271 25,000 25,000 33,750 45,000 46,120 50,000 50,580 63,630 68,500
Sectors not specified 1 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650 22,650

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 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
Global health (filter this donor) 23 886,014.00 30,000.00 149,875.00 50,000.00 135,000.00 25,000.00 50,580.00 176,590.00 79,870.00 66,759.00 122,340.00 0.00
Sectors not specified (filter this donor) 1 22,650.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 22,650.00
Total 24 908,664.00 30,000.00 149,875.00 50,000.00 135,000.00 25,000.00 50,580.00 176,590.00 79,870.00 66,759.00 122,340.00 22,650.00

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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 (24 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 24)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
5,000.00242017-09-18Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene an international conference on the biology of acute respiratory infections, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
25,000.00162017-05-31Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a conference to discuss research advances in the development of tools to control and eventually eliminate malaria; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
68,500.0012016-10-17Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a conference that provides participants from funding agencies, academia, and the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry with a forum for the discussion of state-of-the art technologies and approaches in TB drug discovery; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
25,000.00162016-06-09Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support investigators and junior scientists from low- and middle-income disease endemic countries attending the research conference; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
9,000.00232016-04-18Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support scientists from low and middle income countries in attending the 2016 Gordon Research Conference on drug resistance; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
47,375.0092016-03-14Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support travel, registration, housing and meals for endemic country scientists to attend the Gordon Conference Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
50,000.0062015-02-13Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the Malaria Gordon Research Conference. Gordon Research Conference Support. Investment start date: 2/13/2015 to end date: 12/15/2015. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
50,000.0062014-05-29Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to bring together junior and senior scientists working at the forefront of interdisciplinary basic and translational research on Tropical Infectious Diseases.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
25,000.00162014-03-05Global health/Medical researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to encourage communication and discussion of ideas and new unpublished results at the very frontier of drug delivery, by bringing together outstanding scientists from academia, industry, and government, ranging from Nobel laureates to Ph.D. students; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
60,000.0042014-01-30Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene an international conference on the biology of acute respiratory infections, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
25,000.00162013-05-08Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to bring together leading international scientists from diverse disciplines to focus on the most recent advances in malaria.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
50,580.0052012-07-06Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to bring together scientists working at the forefront of research on molecular and cellular aspects of both invertebrate and vertebrate host-pathogen interactions, with the aim of developing new tools, strategies and partnerships to control TIDs.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
45,000.00122011-10-18Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the third conference on the Biology of Acute Respiratory Infection. 2012 Biology of Acute Respiratory Infection Conference. Investment start date: 10/18/2011 to end date: 4/30/2012. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
36,150.00132011-10-07Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. The Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions ~ Conference. Investment start date: 10/7/2011 to end date: 7/31/2012. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
50,000.0062011-04-26Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. Malaria 2011 Gordon Research Conference. Investment start date: 4/26/2011 to end date: 1/31/2012. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South America.
45,440.00112011-01-31Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. Gordon Research Conference 2011 "Tropical Infectious Diseases from Bench to Field". Investment start date: 1/31/2011 to end date: 6/30/2011. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
33,750.00142010-04-19Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide conference support. Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions. Investment start date: 4/19/2010 to end date: 9/30/2010. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
46,120.00102010-01-19Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene the Gordon Research Conference of acute lower respiratory infection researchers, with the strategic approach of accelerating discovery by scientists working to create health tools such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
66,759.0022009-05-05Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. Malaria Gordon Conference 2009. Investment start date: 5/1/2009 to end date: 10/31/2009. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
25,560.00152008-10-14Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the 2009 Gordon Research Conferences on Molecular Approaches for Emergent/Re-Emergent Tropical Diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
21,879.00212008-05-08Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. 2008 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions. Investment start date: 5/15/2008 to end date: 1/14/2009. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Asia|South of Sahara|Africa|America|South America.
11,271.00222008-05-08Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. 2008 Gordon Research Conference on the Biology of Host-Parasite Interactions. Investment start date: 5/15/2008 to end date: 1/14/2009. Grantee name: Gordon Research Conferences; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Asia|South of Sahara|Africa|America|South America.
63,630.0032008-01-11Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene a conference of acute lower respiratory infection researchers, with the strategic approach of accelerating discovery by scientists working to create health tools such as vaccines, drugs, and diagnostics; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
22,650.00202007-06-25Sectors not specifiedhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene an international conference on the utilization of plants as factories for increased nutrition and health; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.