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 | UCDenver |
| Website | http://www.ucdenver.edu/ |
| Twitter username | cudenver |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Colorado_Denver |
| Instagram username | cudenver |
Full donee page for donee University of Colorado Denver
| 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 | 17 | 117,658 | 1,274,768 | -4,274 | 0 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 117,658 | 850,000 | 997,330 | 1,920,412 | 3,011,161 | 11,011,587 |
| Global health | 13 | 265,977 | 1,585,850 | -4,274 | 0 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 117,658 | 265,977 | 997,330 | 1,920,412 | 1,995,030 | 3,011,161 | 11,011,587 |
| Sanitation | 2 | 5,000 | 52,500 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 5,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 |
| Nutrition | 2 | 100,000 | 475,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 850,000 | 850,000 | 850,000 | 850,000 | 850,000 |
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 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global health (filter this donor) | 13 | 20,616,054.12 | -5,135.88 | 3,022,447.00 | 4,008,491.00 | 1,995,030.00 | 11,211,587.00 | 0.00 | 117,658.00 | 265,977.00 |
| Nutrition (filter this donor) | 2 | 950,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 850,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sanitation (filter this donor) | 2 | 105,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 17 | 21,671,054.12 | -5,135.88 | 3,022,447.00 | 4,008,491.00 | 2,845,030.00 | 11,316,587.00 | 100,000.00 | 117,658.00 | 265,977.00 |
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 17) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -4,273.52 | 17 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to examine early pre and post-natal development and associated changes in energy metabolism, body composition, nutrition, microbioata and genetics, to help clarify the early developmental influences that best predict cognitive outcomes, and lay the founda; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -862.36 | 16 | Global health/malaria | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to predict malaria outbreaks and identify effective intervention strategies by developing a model using supervised machine learning on available data including weather, demographics, and malaria incidence; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,002,035.00 | 5 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to normalize early growth of offspring of mothers in poor communities with high rates of early growth faltering by evaluating a new paradigm based on optimizing maternal nutrition starting before the critical periconception/first trimester period; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Guatemala|India|Pakistan|Zambia. | |
| 100,000.00 | 10 | Global health/malaria | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to predict malaria outbreaks and identify effective intervention strategies by developing a model using supervised machine learning on available data including weather, demographics, and malaria incidence; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,920,412.00 | 4 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assess effect of Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) immunization on school performance, hearing, and economic outcomes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Philippines (the). | |
| 3,011,161.00 | 2 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to normalize early growth of offspring of mothers in poor communities with high rates of early growth faltering by evaluating a new paradigm based on optimizing maternal nutrition starting before the critical periconception/first trimester period; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Guatemala|India|Pakistan|Zambia. | |
| 997,330.00 | 6 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to examine the feasibility of obtaining population-based estimates of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) attributable community mortality in children under two years of age from a site in India; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India. | |
| 1,995,030.00 | 3 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to examine early pre and post-natal development and associated changes in energy metabolism, body composition, nutrition, microbioata and genetics, to help clarify the early developmental influences that best predict cognitive outcomes, and lay the founda; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 850,000.00 | 7 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assess the effects of a commonly occurring intestinal disorder (environmental enteric dysfunction) on the absorption and retention of minerals and vitamins by young children to determine whether this conditional modifies their nutrient requirements; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 11,011,587.00 | 1 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to normalize early growth of offspring of mothers in poor communities with high rates of early growth faltering by evaluating a new paradigm based on optimizing maternal nutrition starting before the critical periconception/first trimester period; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Guatemala|India|Pakistan|Zambia. | |
| 100,000.00 | 10 | Global health/basic health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | To develop vaccine supply chain optimization software to help public health programs in low- to middle-income countries design localized immunization supply systems with low environmental and health impacts.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 5,000.00 | 15 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a low-cost and easy-to-operate bioelectric system that uses microbes to break down waste and convert it to usable electricity.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 10 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to test a mobile phone short message service (SMS) system that provides texts to parents to improve timely immunizations, increase vaccine acceptance, and report of side effects.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 10 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to better understand the mechanisms underlying intrauterine growth restriction in an effort to lead to better outcomes for infants in low-resource areas.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 10 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a low-cost and easy-to-operate bioelectric system that uses microbes to break down waste and convert it to usable electricity.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 117,658.00 | 9 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify the most sensitive and specific method for detecting viruses causing acute lower respiratory infections in Philippine children by testing different multiplex PCR methods to complement global epidemological studies; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Philippines (the). | |
| 265,977.00 | 8 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify the most sensitive and specific method for detecting viruses causing acute lower respiratory infections in Philippine children by testing different multiplex PCR methods to complement global epidemological studies; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Philippines (the). |