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 December 2019. 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
We do not have any donee information for the donee Washington University in St. Louis in our system.
Full donee page for donee Washington University in St. Louis
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 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Global health (filter this donor) | 19 | 49,426,012.54 | 2,574,691.67 | 11,282,956.00 | 6,942,516.00 | 438,280.00 | 5,699,646.00 | 824,496.00 | 8,299,000.00 | 50,000.00 | 13,314,426.88 | 0.00 |
| Nutrition (filter this donor) | 16 | 16,937,123.48 | 3,049,448.32 | 2,126,412.16 | 5,449,338.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 733,989.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 5,477,936.00 |
| Waste management (filter this donor) | 1 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Animal agriculture (filter this donor) | 2 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Family planning (filter this donor) | 1 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 50,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 39 | 66,563,136.02 | 5,624,139.99 | 13,409,368.16 | 12,391,854.00 | 538,280.00 | 5,749,646.00 | 1,558,485.00 | 8,399,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 13,314,426.88 | 5,477,936.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
| Amount (current USD) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,500,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to coordinate a multi-site international effort to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Environmental Enteropathy and Dysfunction in children; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 2,272,982.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and test improved treatments for onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis that will enhance efforts to control and eliminate these important neglected tropical diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South America|Asia. | |
| 1,149,795.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to monitor the effects of malnutrition on brain development in young children in low-resource settings by developing a portable, optical neuroimaging technology (high-density diffuse optical tomography [HD-DOT]) and movie-based protocol; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -112.87 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to better understand and treat the inflammatory gut condition environmental enteropathy, which is highly prevalent in low resource settings and causes malnutrition, by identifying specific gut bacteriophage associated with the disease; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -233.81 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to quantify the effects of malnutrition on brain function in young children in Columbia by using a portable optical imaging technique to image selected functional brain networks in low resource settings; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 305,820.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to evaluate therapies and technologies in models relevant to improve gut health and prevent stunting for children in developing countries; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 400,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify microbiota-directed nutritional interventions in infants and children, based on knowledge of the functional state of maturation of a child’s microbiota, that may be applicable to children as young as 6 months of age; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| -4,110.33 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to make new discoveries that will lead to development of diagnostic tests for use in onchocerciasis elimination programs; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South America|North & Central America|South of Sahara; affected countries: Yemen. | |
| 191,050.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide important information on the pathways responsible for stunted growth in children in developing countries by examining the metabolic profiles of children involved in a protein supplementation trial; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to block the spread of antimicrobial resistance genes to pathogens, which renders antibiotics ineffective, by quantifying the effect of the routine use of antibiotics to treat non-infectious conditions such as malnutrition; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,935,657.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to coordinate a multi-site international effort to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying Environmental Enteropathy and Dysfunction in children; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,989,301.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to examine whether there are identifiable relationships between histologically diagnosed environmental enteric dysfunction and the configuration the proximal small intestinal and fecal microbiota; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,119,843.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop technology to identify and treat gut dysfunction in children residing in resource-poor settings throughout the world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 8,073,812.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and test improved treatments for onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis that will enhance efforts to control and eliminate these important neglected tropical diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South America|Asia. | |
| -294.84 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a strategy for the non-invasive diagnosis of environmental enteropathy, which causes malnutrition and growth failure in young children in the developing world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 4,994,166.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop complementary food interventions to treat and prevent unhealthy infant growth by restoring a healthy gut microbiota; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to better understand and treat the inflammatory gut condition environmental enteropathy, which is highly prevalent in low resource settings and causes malnutrition, by identifying specific gut bacteriophage associated with the disease; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to determine whether RNA bacteriophage can modify bacterial populations (microbiome) in the body and thereby be used to treat associated diseases such as environmental enteropathy, as well as identifying novel human resistance genes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 6,942,516.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and test improved treatments for onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis that will enhance efforts to control and eliminate these important neglected tropical diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South America|Asia. | |
| 155,172.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a strategy for the non-invasive diagnosis of environmental enteropathy, which causes malnutrition and growth failure in young children in the developing world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to quantify the effects of malnutrition on brain function in young children in Columbia by using a portable optical imaging technique to image selected functional brain networks in low resource settings; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 438,280.00 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify and validate new pre- and probiotic interventions to improve the health and development of infants and children in the developing world, and demonstrate an effective process where future interventions can be identified and validated; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to more accurately and rapidly assess gut permeability, which is increased in environmental enteropathy, by testing whether ingested fluorescent molecules of specified sizes can be measured non-invasively through the skin.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 317,693.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to leverage recent discoveries involving the immunobiology of TLR11 to develop a tractable small animal model for preclinical testing of ETEC vaccine candidates.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 3,294,346.00 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify and validate new pre- and probiotic interventions to improve the health and development of infants and children in the developing world, and demonstrate an effective process where future interventions can be identified and validated; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 25,000.00 | Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary services | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to produce an in vitro culture of the parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes severe diarrhoea in humans and animals, by differentiating epithelial cells from isolated stem cells to mimic the small intestine, for high-throughput drug screens.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 25,000.00 | Animal agriculture/Livestock | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to produce an in vitro culture of the parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes severe diarrhoea in humans and animals, by differentiating epithelial cells from isolated stem cells to mimic the small intestine, for high-throughput drug screens.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 50,000.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to produce an in vitro culture of the parasite Cryptosporidium, which causes severe diarrhoea in humans and animals, by differentiating epithelial cells from isolated stem cells to mimic the small intestine, for high-throughput drug screens.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 1,937,607.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to make new discoveries that will lead to development of diagnostic tests for use in onchocerciasis elimination programs; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South America|North & Central America|South of Sahara; affected countries: Yemen. | |
| 100,000.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | To block the transmission of soil-transmitted helminth infections (intestinal worms), which occurs via parasite eggs in human feces, by engineering consumable probiotic bacteria to release toxins that kill the eggs.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 824,496.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to coordinate across a consortium of projects aimed at developing a set of biomarkers for enteric dysfunction in children.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 733,989.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a strategy for the non-invasive diagnosis of environmental enteropathy, which causes malnutrition and growth failure in young children in the developing world; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 8,299,000.00 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to identify and validate new pre- and probiotic interventions to improve the health and development of infants and children in the developing world, and demonstrate an effective process where future interventions can be identified and validated; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 100,000.00 | Waste management / disposal | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop a genetically engineered fungal species that can convert fecal sludge to butanol, a high-energy biofuel similar to gasoline.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 50,000.00 | Family planning | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to formulate a vaginal gel that contains nanoparticles which serve as decoys to attract both sperm and HIV; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 50,000.00 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to formulate a vaginal gel that contains nanoparticles which serve as decoys to attract both sperm and HIV; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 12,564,590.00 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and test improved treatments for onchocerciasis, and lymphatic filariasis that will enhance efforts to control and eliminate these important neglected tropical diseases; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|South America|Asia. | |
| 749,836.88 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop multipathogen/biomarker-based tools for enterric infections, and common assay platform for measurement of micronutrient status and gut function; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 5,477,936.00 | Nutrition/basic nutrition | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to determine the extent that malnutrition is caused by impaired utilization of the food that is ingested, due to the host’s human genotype, the gut microbiota and infections with enteropathogens that result in diarrhea and intestinal inflammation; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. |