Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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Basic donor information

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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

Full donee page for donee The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

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 16 465,271 596,197 17,983 34,907 50,000 100,000 100,000 465,271 622,068 915,877 915,877 999,385 2,916,168
Global health 14 100,000 571,515 17,983 34,907 49,920 100,000 100,000 100,000 622,068 678,492 951,133 999,385 2,916,168
Nutrition 2 622,068 768,972 622,068 622,068 622,068 622,068 622,068 622,068 915,877 915,877 915,877 915,877 915,877

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 2018 2017 2016 2015 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007
Global health (filter this donor) 14 8,001,203.50 1,087,338.50 1,594,369.00 951,133.00 49,920.00 1,049,385.00 52,890.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 2,916,168.00
Nutrition (filter this donor) 2 1,537,944.50 622,067.50 915,877.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 16 9,539,148.00 1,709,406.00 2,510,246.00 951,133.00 49,920.00 1,049,385.00 52,890.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 2,916,168.00

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 (16 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 16)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
465,271.0092018-10-23Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to determine the performance of a pilot serological diagnostic test for hypnozoite carriage; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
622,067.5072018-10-22Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to conduct a randomized, controlled effectiveness trial of a IV ferric carboxymaltose treatment for moderate-to-severe anemia in pregnancy compared to oral iron in Malawi.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi.
622,067.5072018-10-22Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to conduct a randomized, controlled effectiveness trial of a IV ferric carboxymaltose treatment for moderate-to-severe anemia in pregnancy compared to oral iron in Malawi.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi.
678,492.0062017-11-13Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to determine the performance of a pilot serological diagnostic test for hypnozoite carriage; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
915,877.0042017-09-07Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to conduct a randomized, controlled effectiveness trial of a IV ferric carboxymaltose treatment for moderate-to-severe anemia in pregnancy compared to oral iron in Malawi.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi.
915,877.0042017-09-07Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to conduct a randomized, controlled effectiveness trial of a IV ferric carboxymaltose treatment for moderate-to-severe anemia in pregnancy compared to oral iron in Malawi.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi.
951,133.0032016-06-09Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to perform research that will improve the treatment of vivax malaria and thereby progress efforts to eliminate this parasite; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
49,920.00142015-10-01Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support for the Molecular Aspects to Malaria Conference 2016. Molecular Approaches to Malaria 2016 Conference. Investment start date: 10/1/2015 to end date: 8/31/2016. Grantee name: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
999,385.0022011-10-20Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to evaluate and develop a cross-species synthetic saccharide vaccine for malaria. GCE Phase II: Evaluation and Development of a cross-species synthetic saccharide vaccine for malaria. Investment start date: 10/20/2011 to end date: 10/31/2013. Grantee name; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
50,000.00132011-07-22Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for conference support. Molecular Approaches to Malaria (MAM) 2012 ~ Conference. Investment start date: 7/22/2011 to end date: 6/29/2012. Grantee name: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
17,982.60162010-03-31Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene an international conference and forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research findings into parasites; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified.
34,907.40152010-03-31Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to convene an international conference and forum for the dissemination and discussion of new research findings into parasites; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.00102009-09-23Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to create a genetically-attenuated live malaria vaccine that elicits a strong immune response against diverse strains of the parasite; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.00102009-02-26Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a synthetic saccharide-conjugated vaccine that would provide immunity against GPI, a toxin produced by the malaria parasite that is a major determinant in the severity and fatality of the disease.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.00102008-08-21Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test whether a prototype malaria vaccine which targets a newly identifi ed dendritic cell molecule will produce a strong antibody response without the use of adjuvants.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
2,916,168.0012007-08-23Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project involving preclinical malaria vaccine target validation. Preclinical prioritization of blood-stage malaria vaccine candidates. Investment start date: 7/1/2007 to end date: 1/1/2012. Grantee name: The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.