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 |
Full donee page for donee Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo
| 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 | 35 | 3,703,756 | 7,634,529 | -45,113 | 49,910 | 500,000 | 1,155,360 | 1,484,640 | 3,703,756 | 5,987,053 | 11,909,286 | 12,000,000 | 18,600,314 | 33,301,753 |
| Agriculture | 34 | 3,703,756 | 7,756,133 | -45,113 | 49,910 | 500,000 | 1,155,360 | 1,484,640 | 3,703,756 | 6,399,927 | 11,909,286 | 17,309,632 | 18,600,314 | 33,301,753 |
| Food crop production | 1 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 | 3,500,000 |
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 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2007 | 2006 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (filter this donor) | 34 | 263,708,524.67 | 6,546,931.67 | 20,000,000.00 | 38,762,127.00 | 23,530,046.00 | 23,950,481.00 | 5,159,550.00 | 26,135,356.00 | 33,100,001.00 | 8,468,135.00 | 29,303,882.00 | 42,952,015.00 | 5,800,000.00 |
| Food crop production (filter this donor) | 1 | 3,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 3,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 35 | 267,208,524.67 | 6,546,931.67 | 20,000,000.00 | 38,762,127.00 | 27,030,046.00 | 23,950,481.00 | 5,159,550.00 | 26,135,356.00 | 33,100,001.00 | 8,468,135.00 | 29,303,882.00 | 42,952,015.00 | 5,800,000.00 |
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 35) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,967,769.55 | 17 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve productivity and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through development and dissemination of improved multiple stress tolerant and well-adapted maize varieties and hybrids; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Benin|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Nigeria|Uganda|South africa|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Malawi. | |
| 2,612,279.45 | 21 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve productivity and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through development and dissemination of improved multiple stress tolerant and well-adapted maize varieties and hybrids; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Benin|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Nigeria|Uganda|South africa|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Malawi. | |
| -23,182.17 | 34 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to conduct the formative research necessary for rigorous evaluation of the nutritional and health impact of agronomic biofortification with zinc in Ethiopia and promote nutrition-sensitive policy formulation; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| -9,935.16 | 33 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to conduct the formative research necessary for rigorous evaluation of the nutritional and health impact of agronomic biofortification with zinc in Ethiopia and promote nutrition-sensitive policy formulation; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 20,000,000.00 | 3 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to increase the rate of genetic gain delivered directly by CGIAR breeding programs and improve their ability to support the modernization of national systems; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 6,399,927.00 | 14 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve the livelihoods of maize farming households through Ms44 SPT by delivering reduced seed production costs, improved seed quality and certified hybrid seed that utilizes inputs more efficiently to produce higher grain yield for resource-constrain; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 1,181,999.00 | 23 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to effectively curb the spread and impact of the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa which is threatening the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the economic viability of the maize-based seed industry; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 1,181,999.00 | 23 | Agriculture/Plant and post-harvest protection and pest control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to effectively curb the spread and impact of the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa which is threatening the food security and livelihoods of smallholder farmers and the economic viability of the maize-based seed industry; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 11,909,286.19 | 11 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve productivity and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through development and dissemination of improved multiple stress tolerant and well-adapted maize varieties and hybrids; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Benin|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Nigeria|Uganda|South africa|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Malawi. | |
| 18,088,915.81 | 5 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to improve productivity and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) through development and dissemination of improved multiple stress tolerant and well-adapted maize varieties and hybrids; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Benin|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Nigeria|Uganda|South africa|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Malawi. | |
| 1,099,669.00 | 26 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to examine the interactions between gender norms, agency and innovation in agriculture and natural resource management in rural communities, drawing on the voices and perspectives of women and men of different ages and socio-economic groups; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
| 3,500,000.00 | 20 | Food crop production | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to provide more accurate estimates and a better understanding of adoption and turnover of improved seed by wheat and maize smallholder farmers in Ethiopia using DNA fingerprinting technology; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 18,000,389.00 | 6 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to sustainably catalyze change through public and private sector intermediaries so that farmers have better knowledge of, and access to, science-informed best management practices that reduce risk, increase food security, and boost incomes derived from ce; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Bangladesh|India. | |
| -45,113.00 | 35 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to contribute to the development of improved legume varieties in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by advancing molecular breeding for traits of importance in both regions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Cameroon|Ethiopia|India|Kenya|Malawi|Niger (the)|Nigeria|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe. | |
| 74,859.00 | 30 | Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative management | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to conduct the formative research necessary for rigorous evaluation of the nutritional and health impact of agronomic biofortification with zinc in Ethiopia and promote nutrition-sensitive policy formulation; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ethiopia. | |
| 696,486.00 | 28 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and disseminate drought-tolerant maize varieties for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Benin|Uganda|Angola|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Nigeria. | |
| 3,703,756.00 | 18 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop improved varieties of maize for higher yields on the low-nitrogen soils prevalent in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: South africa|Kenya|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe|Uganda. | |
| 11,950,481.00 | 10 | Agriculture/agricultural development | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support international agricultural research institutions and national agricultural research and extensions programs, non-governmental organizations, and businesses working with smallholder maize-based farmers in Ethiopia, Nigerian and Tanzania with spi; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Nigeria|Ethiopia. | |
| 12,000,000.00 | 8 | Agriculture/agricultural education/training | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of plant breeding programs serving smallholder farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by providing them with state-of-the-art data management and decision support tools; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified|South of Sahara; affected countries: India. | |
| 49,910.00 | 32 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support a conference on maintaining cereal productivity under climate change through international collaboration; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South & Central Asia. | |
| 1,484,640.00 | 22 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to effectively manage the maize lethal necrosis (MLN) disease through accelerated development of elite germplasm with MLN resistance, thereby contributing to enhanced maize production, livelihoods, and food security of eastern African smallholder farmers ; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 3,625,000.00 | 19 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to coordinate The Generation Challenge Program, a global effort to develop tools, databases and precision phenotyping facilities that will accelerate breeding gains for rice, maize, wheat, sorghum and cowpea via molecular marker integration; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: Bangladesh|Bhutan|India|Sri lanka|Nepal|Pakistan. | |
| 18,600,314.00 | 4 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to support outputs from interdisciplinary research on rice, wheat and maize cropping systems, which will be delivered through public-private partnerships using a hub model to reach 2,000,000 farmers and increase farm family incomes by $350/year; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Pakistan|Bangladesh|Nepal|India. | |
| 50,000.00 | 31 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | for conference support. Conference Support: Wheat for Food Security in Africa Conference. Investment start date: 6/27/2012 to end date: 10/31/2012. Grantee name: Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 5,987,053.00 | 15 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to decrease hunger and poverty by enhancing the capabilities of African breeding programs that deliver products to smallholders by establishing a nonprofit, African based, service provider that generates fixed lines for maize breeders (private and public); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara. | |
| 500,000.00 | 29 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to contribute to the development of improved legume varieties in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by advancing molecular breeding for traits of importance in both regions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Cameroon|Ethiopia|India|Kenya|Malawi|Niger (the)|Nigeria|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe. | |
| 997,989.00 | 27 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop improved varieties of maize for higher yields on the low-nitrogen soils prevalent in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: South africa|Kenya|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe|Uganda. | |
| 33,100,001.00 | 2 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop and disseminate drought-tolerant maize varieties for small farmers in sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Benin|Uganda|Angola|Ethiopia|Ghana|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Nigeria. | |
| 8,468,135.00 | 13 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to contribute to the development of improved legume varieties in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia by advancing molecular breeding for traits of importance in both regions; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Burkina faso|Cameroon|Ethiopia|India|Kenya|Malawi|Niger (the)|Nigeria|Senegal|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe. | |
| 17,309,632.00 | 7 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop improved varieties of maize for higher yields on the low-nitrogen soils prevalent in Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: South africa|Kenya|Tanzania, united republic of|Zimbabwe|Uganda. | |
| 11,994,250.00 | 9 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to coordinate The Generation Challenge Program, a global effort to develop tools, databases and precision phenotyping facilities that will accelerate breeding gains for rice, maize, wheat, sorghum and cowpea via molecular marker integration; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara; affected countries: Bangladesh|Bhutan|India|Sri lanka|Nepal|Pakistan. | |
| 33,301,753.00 | 1 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to decrease hunger and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa through development and dissemination of drought-tolerant maize varieties; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Angola|Benin|Tanzania, united republic of|Ethiopia|Kenya|Malawi|Nigeria|Uganda|Zambia|Zimbabwe|Ghana|Mozambique|Mali. | |
| 9,650,262.00 | 12 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to contribute to the development of improved legume varieties in sub-Saharan Africa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Cameroon|Burkina faso|Ethiopia|India|Kenya|Malawi|Niger (the)|Nigeria|Zimbabwe|Tanzania, united republic of|Senegal. | |
| 1,155,360.00 | 25 | Agriculture/agricultural inputs | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to decrease hunger and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa through development and dissemination of drought-tolerant maize varieties; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ghana|Ethiopia|Benin|Angola|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Mozambique|Nigeria|Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda|Zimbabwe|Zambia. | |
| 4,644,640.00 | 16 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to decrease hunger and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in sub-Saharan Africa through development and dissemination of drought-tolerant maize varieties; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Ghana|Ethiopia|Benin|Angola|Kenya|Mali|Malawi|Mozambique|Nigeria|Tanzania, united republic of|Uganda|Zimbabwe|Zambia. |