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.
| 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 | |
| Website | http://www.unc.edu |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_North_Carolina_at_Chapel_Hill |
Full donee page for donee University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
| 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 | 36 | 220,000 | 2,434,069 | -7,567,113 | 0 | 20,000 | 75,000 | 100,000 | 220,000 | 697,500 | 1,754,176 | 2,196,175 | 5,995,852 | 22,850,360 |
| Global health | 21 | 100,000 | 2,063,082 | -7,567,113 | 0 | 0 | 72,219 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 220,000 | 697,500 | 1,643,000 | 5,995,852 | 21,268,785 |
| Nutrition | 3 | 100,000 | 765,374 | -54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 2,196,175 | 2,196,175 | 2,196,175 | 2,196,175 |
| Sanitation | 1 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 | 20,000 |
| Family planning | 11 | 1,754,176 | 3,816,877 | 25,000 | 100,000 | 232,500 | 500,000 | 1,300,000 | 1,754,176 | 1,998,617 | 4,000,000 | 4,499,998 | 4,725,000 | 22,850,360 |
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 | 2012 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global health (filter this donor) | 21 | 43,324,717.29 | 295,000.00 | 1,715,219.00 | 2,005,638.00 | 697,500.00 | 100,000.00 | 4,203,362.50 | -69,892.21 | -7,267,113.00 | 1,798,331.00 | 0.00 | 39,846,672.00 |
| Family planning (filter this donor) | 11 | 41,985,651.25 | 1,325,000.00 | 4,000,000.00 | 1,754,176.00 | 4,732,498.00 | 4,725,000.00 | 1,998,617.25 | 0.00 | 600,000.00 | 0.00 | 22,850,360.00 | 0.00 |
| Nutrition (filter this donor) | 3 | 2,296,121.30 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | -53.70 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 2,196,175.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sanitation (filter this donor) | 1 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 20,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 36 | 87,626,489.84 | 1,620,000.00 | 5,715,219.00 | 3,759,814.00 | 5,429,998.00 | 4,824,946.30 | 6,221,979.75 | 30,107.79 | -6,667,113.00 | 3,994,506.00 | 22,850,360.00 | 39,846,672.00 |
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 36) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,300,000.00 | 14 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to further knowledge around improving access, quality, and utilization of family planning services; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Congo (the democratic republic of the)|Nigeria. | |
| 75,000.00 | 26 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 25,000.00 | 28 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 220,000.00 | 19 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the study on how receipt of cash transfers to young girls and women influence their sexual behavior and financial decisions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 4,000,000.00 | 7 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to enhance and use available evidence to inform programs and policies to expand family planning method choice among youth; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|Developing countries, unspecified|South & Central Asia. | |
| 1,643,000.00 | 12 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to study a preterm birth intervention that is widely used in the developed world, but that has not been well studied in high-risk women living in low and middle-income countries.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zambia. | |
| 72,219.00 | 27 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the study on how receipt of cash transfers to young girls and women influence their sexual behavior and financial decisions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 1,754,176.00 | 11 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to inform future family planning investments that are intended to lead to long-term increases in urban women’s, couples’, and adolescents’ modern family planning adoption and use; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria. | |
| 1,498,188.00 | 13 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support the study on how receipt of cash transfers to young girls and women influence their sexual behavior and financial decisions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 507,450.00 | 16 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to better target and tailor HIV prevention programs through research on the risk profile of male partners of young women at high risk of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 4,499,998.00 | 6 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to further knowledge around improving access, quality, and utilization of family planning services; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Congo (the democratic republic of the)|Nigeria. | |
| 697,500.00 | 15 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 232,500.00 | 18 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| -53.70 | 30 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide the evidence base for improving the nutritional status of lactating women and their infants in resource-poor settings with high HIV prevalence by using lipid-based micronutrient-rich supplements (LNS); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 4,725,000.00 | 5 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support measurement, learning & evaluation for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce the incidence of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa by stimulating individuals to use self-testing HIV kits to screen their current and future sexual partners for HIV status in order to inform sexual decision making.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -1,790,915.80 | 35 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to conduct Phase III trials and obtain regulatory approval for an oral drug for early stage African sleeping sickness; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa. | |
| 5,995,851.75 | 4 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 1,998,617.25 | 9 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to reduce maternal and neonatal morbidity and mortality in Malawi by strengthening the Presidential Initiative on Maternal Health and Safe Motherhood; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 20,000.00 | 29 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide insight into decision-making for WASH investments within Finance Ministries in developing countries to support the Sanitation and Water for All partnership; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| -1,573.45 | 32 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a bio-compatible, biodegradable polymer device that can be placed under the skin to introduce vaccines and antigens to the immune system; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -40,415.23 | 34 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assess potential etiologies for the delayed hepatic and renal toxicity of pafuramidine maleate; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| -144.98 | 31 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to test whether antibodies within mucus interact with viruses to create an adhesive traps that prevents them from reaching target cells; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -29,332.00 | 33 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop highly effective, inexpensive new drugs to treat late stages of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and validate a methodology to measure infant memory and cognition for use in a larger study on the effects of dietary choline on infant development in The Gambia.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| -7,567,113.00 | 36 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop highly effective, inexpensive new drugs to treat late stages of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to test whether antibodies within mucus interact with viruses to create an adhesive traps that prevents them from reaching target cells; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a bio-compatible, biodegradable polymer device that can be placed under the skin to introduce vaccines and antigens to the immune system; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 500,000.00 | 17 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support a special issue of Lancet on population and family planning in relation to achieving Millennium Development Goals; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to study the ability of therapeutic ultrasound to deplete testicular sperm counts; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | 20 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a diagnostic platform based on seed germination by integrating DNA amplification with the expression of reporter proteins in plant seeds to aid in the detection of infectious diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,798,331.00 | 10 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to assess potential etiologies for the delayed hepatic and renal toxicity of pafuramidine maleate; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 2,196,175.00 | 8 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide the evidence base for improving the nutritional status of lactating women and their infants in resource-poor settings with high HIV prevalence by using lipid-based micronutrient-rich supplements (LNS); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Malawi. | |
| 22,850,360.00 | 1 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support measurement, learning & evaluation for the Urban Reproductive Health Initiative; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia. | |
| 21,268,785.00 | 2 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop highly effective, inexpensive new drugs to treat late stages of trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 18,577,887.00 | 3 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to conduct Phase III trials and obtain regulatory approval for an oral drug for early stage African sleeping sickness; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa. |