Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Marie Stopes International

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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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 MarieStopes
Websitehttp://www.mariestopes.org/
Twitter usernameMarieStopes
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Stopes_International

Full donee page for donee Marie Stopes International

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 10 2,302,847 6,919,330 -2,268,372 0 0 155,032 999,110 2,302,847 2,797,019 5,500,093 13,805,440 15,998,824 30,000,000
Global health 8 999,110 6,573,855 -2,268,372 0 0 155,032 999,110 999,110 2,302,847 5,500,093 15,998,824 30,000,000 30,000,000
Family planning 2 2,797,019 8,301,230 2,797,019 2,797,019 2,797,019 2,797,019 2,797,019 2,797,019 13,805,440 13,805,440 13,805,440 13,805,440 13,805,440

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
Global health (filter this donor) 8 52,590,836.00 -2,268,372.00 2,302,847.00 999,110.00 5,500,093.00 -96,698.00 46,153,856.00
Family planning (filter this donor) 2 16,602,459.00 13,805,440.00 2,797,019.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 10 69,193,295.00 11,537,068.00 5,099,866.00 999,110.00 5,500,093.00 -96,698.00 46,153,856.00

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)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (10 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 10)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-2,268,372.00102017-10-02Global health/basic health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve health outcomes through the provision of quality private sector health care targeted at the poor in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa.
13,805,440.0032017-08-21Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support increasing access to a comprehensive choice of contraceptive methods to those who need it most and by transitioning to a sustainable commercial social marketing organization; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India.
2,302,847.0062016-09-26Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve maternal and newborn survival in three sub-Saharan countries through use of better evidence and improved advocacy and accountability in Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria|Malawi|Ethiopia.
2,797,019.0052016-05-18Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to expand family planning choice for women in Senegal, Niger and Burkina Faso. Harnessing the potential of home and self-injection to expand women’s access to modern contraception in Senegal, Burkina Faso and Niger. Investment start date: 5/18/2016 to end; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Niger (the)|Senegal.
999,110.0072015-11-13Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve maternal and newborn survival in three sub-Saharan countries through use of better evidence and improved advocacy and accountability in Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria|Malawi|Ethiopia.
5,500,093.0042014-11-12Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve maternal and newborn survival in three sub-Saharan countries through use of better evidence and improved advocacy and accountability in Ethiopia, Malawi and Nigeria; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria|Malawi|Ethiopia.
-96,698.0092013-07-10Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene prelaunch meetings of the key AHME stakeholders in country to assure a smooth and expedited start to the AHME programme; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ghana|Nigeria|Kenya.
30,000,000.0012012-11-02Global health/basic health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve health outcomes through the provision of quality private sector health care targeted at the poor in Nigeria, Kenya and Ghana; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa.
15,998,824.0022012-10-22Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve health outcomes through the provision of quality health services targeted at women at highest risk of cervical cancer; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Nigeria|Kenya|Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda.
155,032.0082012-07-16Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene prelaunch meetings of the key AHME stakeholders in country to assure a smooth and expedited start to the AHME programme; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ghana|Nigeria|Kenya.