Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

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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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page ICGEBItaly
Websitehttp://www.icgeb.org/home-nd.html
Twitter usernameICGEB
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Centre_for_Genetic_Engineering_and_Biotechnology

Full donee page for donee International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology

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 12 100,000 1,092,820 -83,659 0 51,500 59,433 66,400 100,000 100,000 477,754 2,950,000 3,023,113 6,328,737
Global health 8 100,000 470,249 -83,659 0 51,500 66,400 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 477,754 2,950,000 2,950,000
Agriculture 4 59,433 2,337,963 -59,433 0 0 59,433 59,433 59,433 3,023,113 3,023,113 6,328,737 6,328,737 6,328,737

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 2014 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Agriculture (filter this donor) 4 9,351,850.00 0.00 6,328,737.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 3,023,113.00
Global health (filter this donor) 8 3,761,994.52 -83,659.48 100,000.00 477,754.00 51,500.00 200,000.00 3,016,400.00
Total 12 13,113,844.52 -83,659.48 6,428,737.00 477,754.00 51,500.00 200,000.00 6,039,513.00

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 (12 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 12)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-83,659.48122014-03-20Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide a quick cost effective easy to use tool at point of care facility and reduce TB burden and community infection in society; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
59,433.0092013-06-13Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop effective safety and regulatory systems in the field of modern biotechnology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mozambique|Nigeria|Togo|Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda|Ghana.
-59,433.00112013-06-13Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop effective safety and regulatory systems in the field of modern biotechnology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Cameroon|Uganda|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Mozambique|Nigeria|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of|South africa|Togo.
6,328,737.0012012-10-11Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop effective safety and regulatory systems in the field of modern biotechnology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mozambique|Nigeria|Togo|Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda|Ghana.
100,000.0052012-04-19Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to Identify and optimize compounds that target host proteins required for M. tuberculosis to survive for possible use in new drug therapies.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
477,754.0042011-10-20Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide a quick cost effective easy to use tool at point of care facility and reduce TB burden and community infection in society; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
51,500.00102010-05-25Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to organize an international symposium on Tuberculosis. to support the "Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Challenges, Innovations and Applications" conference. Investment start date: 5/25/2010 to end date: 3/31/2011. Grantee name: International Centre for Genetic; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052009-10-01Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop receptor blocking malaria vaccines based on a combination of a novel RBL family of Plasmodium merozoite proteins; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.0052009-07-10Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to gather breath samples from tuberculosis patients and use gas chromatography-mass spectrometry to identify and track unique molecules such as volatile organic compounds that can serve as biomarkers to diagnose TB in resource-poor settings.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
2,950,000.0032008-11-19Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to establish a core management structure to plan, coordinate and execute the Indian Malaria Vaccine Program whose goal is to advance the development of safe, affordable and efficacious vaccines to protect children; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India.
3,023,113.0022008-05-20Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop effective safety and regulatory systems in the field of modern biotechnology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Cameroon|Uganda|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Mozambique|Nigeria|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of|South africa|Togo.
66,400.0082008-05-08Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. Emerging Trends in Tuberculosis Research: Biomarkers, Drugs and Vaccines. Investment start date: 6/1/2008 to end date: 3/31/2009. Grantee name: International Centre for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.