Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Management Sciences for Health

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

ItemValue
Country

Full donee page for donee Management Sciences for Health

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 13 221,000 1,414,967 -6,703,285 0 0 0 214,500 221,000 603,623 2,500,000 3,205,606 8,019,565 9,703,285
Global health 12 214,500 1,408,074 -6,703,285 0 0 0 214,500 214,500 603,623 2,500,000 3,205,606 8,019,565 9,703,285
Family planning 1 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686 1,497,686

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 2016 2015 2014 2013 2011 2007
Global health (filter this donor) 12 16,896,882.73 -1,081,911.52 -4,203,285.00 650,000.00 9,703,285.00 8,623,188.00 3,205,606.25
Family planning (filter this donor) 1 1,497,686.00 0.00 0.00 1,497,686.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 13 18,394,568.73 -1,081,911.52 -4,203,285.00 2,147,686.00 9,703,285.00 8,623,188.00 3,205,606.25

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 (13 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 13)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-957,103.52122016-05-19Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase the coverage of efficient, effective, and equitable primary health care services in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia.
-116,071.44112016-01-08Global health/basic health infrastructurehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase access to and appropriate use of quality pharmaceutical products and services in underserved areas; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.
-8,736.56102016-01-08Global health/Health personnel developmenthttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase access to and appropriate use of quality pharmaceutical products and services in underserved areas; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.
-6,703,285.00132015-08-07Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase the coverage of efficient, effective, and equitable primary health care services in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia.
2,500,000.0042015-08-05Global health/basic health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to consolidate regional technical expertise to provide support for strengthening countries' existing drug shop programs, and expansion of programs to engage drug shops in the delivery of high-quality, low-cost basic services into other countries; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa.
1,497,686.0052014-10-14Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to advance emergency contraceptives (EC) access and integration at the global level while pursuing key “game changers” to increase EC access in selected countries, in collaboration with local partners; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: India|Nigeria|Senegal.
221,000.0072014-07-07Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide support to the African Delegations to the Global Fund Board and on the Global Fund’s strategy to Increase Domestic Financing (IDF); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South of Sahara.
214,500.0082014-07-07Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide support to the African Delegations to the Global Fund Board and on the Global Fund’s strategy to Increase Domestic Financing (IDF); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South of Sahara.
214,500.0082014-07-07Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide support to the African Delegations to the Global Fund Board and on the Global Fund’s strategy to Increase Domestic Financing (IDF); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South of Sahara.
9,703,285.0012013-05-23Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase the coverage of efficient, effective, and equitable primary health care services in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia.
8,019,564.8422011-04-28Global health/basic health infrastructurehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase access to and appropriate use of quality pharmaceutical products and services in underserved areas; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.
603,623.1662011-04-28Global health/Health personnel developmenthttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase access to and appropriate use of quality pharmaceutical products and services in underserved areas; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.
3,205,606.2532007-11-06Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve access to essential medicines and quality pharmaceutical services in developing countries by strengthening Accredited Drug Dispensing Outlets; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.