Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to University of Rochester

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.

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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
Websitehttp://www.rochester.edu
Twitter usernameUofR
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Rochester
Instagram usernameurochester
Tumblr subdomainurochester

Full donee page for donee University of Rochester

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 8 100,000 491,479 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 421,300 1,500,000 1,510,535 1,510,535
Global health 3 100,000 570,178 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 1,510,535 1,510,535 1,510,535 1,510,535
Sanitation 4 100,000 530,325 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 421,300 421,300 1,500,000 1,500,000 1,500,000
Agriculture 1 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000

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 2014 2012 2011 2010 2008
Sanitation (filter this donor) 4 2,121,300.00 1,500,000.00 421,300.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00
Global health (filter this donor) 3 1,710,535.00 1,510,535.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100,000.00 100,000.00
Agriculture (filter this donor) 1 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 8 3,931,835.00 3,010,535.00 421,300.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00 100,000.00

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 (8 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 8)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
1,500,000.0022017-09-28Sanitation/basic sanitationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop and test low-cost sanitary public waste facilities suitable for implementation in poor communities; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa.
1,510,535.0012017-09-25Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to characterize IgA and IgG antibodies in human milk to key diarrheal, respiratory and sepsis pathogens in different geographic locations and in relation to disease outcomes in infants; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
421,300.0032014-11-17Sanitation/basic sanitationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop low cost, self-cleaning and anti-fouling superhydrophobic plastics that will require virtually no operation and maintenance costs, which can be used in sanitation solutions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia.
100,000.0042012-10-08Sanitation/basic sanitationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop superhydrophobic surfaces that repel waste, resulting in a self-cleaning surface for latrines; research will focus on technologies to reduce the cost of production processes and materials; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0042012-04-09Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test if Spiroplasma, a bacterial symbiont in Drosophila that confers resistance to nematodes, can be used in crops to confer resistance to plant-parasitic nematodes.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0042011-09-26Sanitation/basic sanitationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop superhydrophobic materials that repel waste for use as a self-cleaning surface for latrines,and to capture and slough clean water into storage containers before it evaporates or is contaminated.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0042010-04-05Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test the hypothesis that infecting blackflies with the bacteria Spiroplasma could impair the ability to transmit the river blindness parasite and increase fertility of female flies that pass along this beneficial bacteria to its offspring; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0042008-08-26Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to screen for small molecule compounds that bind to A3G in cells and turn its anti-viral activity back on.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.