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.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation |
| Best overview URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_%26_Melinda_Gates_Foundation |
| Facebook username | gatesfoundation |
| LinkedIn username | bill-&-melinda-gates-foundation |
| Website | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/Quick-Links/Grants-Database |
| Twitter username | gatesfoundation |
| Page on philosophy informing donations | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/What-We-Do |
| Grant application process page | https://www.gatesfoundation.org/How-We-Work/General-Information/Grantseeker-FAQ |
| Regularity with which donor updates donations data | continuous updates |
| Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | irregular |
| Lag with which donor updates donations data | months |
| Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | years |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL 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
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Facebook page | WorldFoodProgramme |
| Website | http://wfp.org |
| Twitter username | WFP |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Programme |
| Instagram username | worldfoodprogramme_official |
Full donee page for donee United Nations World Food Programme
| Item | Value |
|---|
| Cause area | Count | Median | Mean | Minimum | 10th percentile | 20th percentile | 30th percentile | 40th percentile | 50th percentile | 60th percentile | 70th percentile | 80th percentile | 90th percentile | Maximum |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | 26 | 1,000,000 | 4,974,308 | -2,023 | 0 | 285,631 | 522,921 | 700,000 | 1,000,000 | 2,500,000 | 3,950,000 | 5,000,000 | 18,175,810 | 33,065,600 |
| Food assistance | 8 | 923,375 | 5,109,264 | -2,023 | 0 | 285,631 | 550,683 | 923,375 | 923,375 | 1,000,000 | 1,100,848 | 3,950,000 | 33,065,600 | 33,065,600 |
| Agriculture | 12 | 550,683 | 4,921,597 | -2,023 | 0 | 40,508 | 285,631 | 499,995 | 550,683 | 3,950,000 | 4,562,022 | 5,819,892 | 7,790,704 | 33,065,600 |
| Nutrition | 3 | 700,000 | 1,240,974 | 522,921 | 522,921 | 522,921 | 522,921 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 700,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 |
| Emergency food assistance | 1 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 | 2,500,000 |
| Global health | 1 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 | 5,000,000 |
| Family planning | 1 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 | 18,175,810 |
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 | 2014 | 2013 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (filter this donor) | 12 | 59,059,164.19 | -3,799.31 | 4,562,022.00 | 8,317,821.00 | 0.00 | 4,449,995.00 | 326,139.00 | 550,682.50 | 33,065,600.00 | 7,790,704.00 |
| Food assistance (filter this donor) | 8 | 40,874,113.19 | -2,023.31 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,950,000.00 | 1,285,631.00 | 550,682.50 | 33,988,975.00 | 1,100,848.00 |
| Family planning (filter this donor) | 1 | 18,175,810.00 | 0.00 | 18,175,810.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Global health (filter this donor) | 1 | 5,000,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5,000,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Nutrition (filter this donor) | 3 | 3,722,921.00 | 0.00 | 522,921.00 | 0.00 | 700,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Emergency food assistance (filter this donor) | 1 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 2,500,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 26 | 129,332,008.38 | -5,822.62 | 23,260,753.00 | 8,317,821.00 | 700,000.00 | 8,399,995.00 | 1,611,770.00 | 1,101,365.00 | 77,054,575.00 | 8,891,552.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 26) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -1,776.00 | 24 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to connect smallholder farmers to the grains and legumes markets. P4P Responsible Handover and Transition. Investment start date: 3/17/2016 to end date: 4/30/2017. Grantee name: United Nations World Food Programme; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| -2,023.31 | 25 | Agriculture/agricultural services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| -2,023.31 | 25 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 522,921.00 | 19 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to implement a certification mark for nutritious foods that will help low-income and nutritionally vulnerable consumers make healthier food purchasing decisions for themselves and their children in Zambia; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zambia. | |
| 4,562,022.00 | 7 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to address systemic issues in Ethiopia’s agriculture sector and reach smallholder farmers with crops and livestock technologies and solutions that will improve productivity and incomes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 18,175,810.00 | 3 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to accelerate supply chain maturity that impacts performance to enable sustained health commodity availability; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Congo (the democratic republic of the)|Ethiopia|India|Kenya|Nigeria|Pakistan|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 5,819,892.00 | 5 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to address systemic issues in Ethiopia’s agriculture sector and reach smallholder farmers with crops and livestock technologies and solutions that will improve productivity and incomes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 2,497,929.00 | 12 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to connect smallholder farmers to the grains and legumes markets. P4P Responsible Handover and Transition. Investment start date: 3/17/2016 to end date: 4/30/2017. Grantee name: United Nations World Food Programme; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 700,000.00 | 16 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to build Brazilian leadership in nutrition and expand access to its knowledge and lessons learned around nutrition strategies among African countries through South-South cooperation; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Africa. | |
| 3,950,000.00 | 8 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 3,950,000.00 | 8 | Agriculture/agricultural services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 499,995.00 | 20 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide an analysis and dissemination of Brazilian institutional food procurement experiences and food-based safety net programs that source food from smallholder farmers; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Brazil. | |
| 1,000,000.00 | 14 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to facilitate food purchase from smallholder farmers in Kenya to supply the Kakuma Refugee camp school feeding programme, support refugees and the local community to generate income through value addition on grains, and implement school health and nutrit; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Kenya. | |
| 285,631.00 | 21 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 285,631.00 | 21 | Agriculture/agricultural services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 40,508.00 | 23 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide space and use of facilities for developement organizations in Tanzania; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 550,682.50 | 17 | Agriculture/agricultural services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide funding to the REACH partnership for exploring linkages between local agricultural development and health-focused nutrition programming; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 550,682.50 | 17 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide funding to the REACH partnership for exploring linkages between local agricultural development and health-focused nutrition programming; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 33,065,600.00 | 1 | Agriculture/agricultural services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 33,065,600.00 | 1 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve market opportunities for smallholder farmers through the expansion of food purchasing mechanisms; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Rwanda|Uganda|Zambia|Mozambique. | |
| 5,000,000.00 | 6 | Global health/basic health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assist young children, pregnant and lactating women in Niger, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso affected by the high food prices emergency; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Côte d'ivoire|Burkina faso|Niger (the). | |
| 2,500,000.00 | 10 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assist young children, pregnant and lactating women in Niger, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso affected by the high food prices emergency; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Côte d'ivoire|Burkina faso|Niger (the). | |
| 2,500,000.00 | 10 | Emergency food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assist young children, pregnant and lactating women in Niger, Cote d'Ivoire and Burkina Faso affected by the high food prices emergency; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Côte d'ivoire|Burkina faso|Niger (the). | |
| 923,375.00 | 15 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to design development and emergency programs that improve small farmers access to markets; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 7,790,704.00 | 4 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide decisionmakers with reliable and comprehensive multi-sectoral information to design and implement development and emergency programs; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: Kenya|Uganda|Burkina faso|Benin|Cameroon|Ethiopia|Ghana|Madagascar|Mali|Malawi|Mozambique|Nigeria|Rwanda|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Senegal. | |
| 1,100,848.00 | 13 | Food assistance | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a comprehensive framework to exploit School Feeding's potential in alleviating rural poverty; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: Bangladesh|Pakistan|India. |