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 | ACCION.International |
| Website | http://www.accion.org |
| Twitter username | Accion |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACCION_International |
| Instagram username | accion_global |
| Medium username | @Accion |
Full donee page for donee ACCION International
| 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 | 6 | 180,000 | 1,101,061 | -250,000 | 0 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 300,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 5,826,364 | 5,826,364 |
| Financing | 3 | 150,000 | 1,908,788 | -250,000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 5,826,364 | 5,826,364 | 5,826,364 | 5,826,364 |
| Financial policy and administrative management | 3 | 300,000 | 293,333 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 180,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 300,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 | 400,000 |
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 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2009 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Financing (filter this donor) | 3 | 5,726,364.00 | 0.00 | 150,000.00 | 0.00 | 5,576,364.00 |
| Financial policy and administrative management (filter this donor) | 3 | 880,000.00 | 480,000.00 | 0.00 | 400,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 6 | 6,606,364.00 | 480,000.00 | 150,000.00 | 400,000.00 | 5,576,364.00 |
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 6) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 300,000.00 | 3 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to promote a world in which microfinance has a maximum beneficial impact on the lives of the poor and underserved; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 180,000.00 | 4 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support Financial Inclusion 2020 (FI2020) as a driving force in building a financial inclusion movement and community; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 150,000.00 | 5 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide a credit guarantee that will test the viability of digitizing value chains and other information to make informed, sustainable lending decisions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of. | |
| 400,000.00 | 2 | Financial policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support financial services providers, regulators, investors and others to understand the steps that need to be taken and the role they can play in reaching full financial inclusion in the world by 2020; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 5,826,364.00 | 1 | Financing/Informal/semi-formal financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to dramatically increase the number of active savings accounts serving low income families in ACCION partner microfinance institutions in Latin America.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bolivia (plurinational state of)|Colombia|Nicaragua. | |
| -250,000.00 | 6 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | To introduce and validate new business models for the provision of microfinance to the poor in India and sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria|Senegal|Ghana|Cameroon|India. |