Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to Penn State

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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

We do not have any donee information for the donee Penn State in our system.

Full donee page for donee Penn State

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 14 100,000 545,218 -709 10,000 18,931 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 1,024,879 1,331,374 3,549,999
Global health 9 100,000 428,236 -709 0 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 998,578 1,024,879 1,331,374 1,331,374
Financing 2 10,000 14,466 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 10,000 18,931 18,931 18,931 18,931 18,931
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
Family planning 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
Animal agriculture 1 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999 3,549,999

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 2018 2017 2016 2015 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Global health (filter this donor) 9 3,854,121.81 -709.19 0.00 1,331,374.00 100,000.00 1,024,879.00 100,000.00 998,578.00 100,000.00 200,000.00
Animal agriculture (filter this donor) 1 3,549,999.00 0.00 3,549,999.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Agriculture (filter this donor) 1 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Family planning (filter this donor) 1 100,000.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Financing (filter this donor) 2 28,931.00 0.00 0.00 28,931.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 14 7,633,051.81 -709.19 3,649,999.00 1,360,305.00 100,000.00 1,024,879.00 200,000.00 998,578.00 100,000.00 200,000.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (14 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 14)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-709.19142018-01-29Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve laboratory breeding of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes for research by developing a diet based on soft-bodied insect larvae such as lepidopteran larvae to replace more costly mammalian-blood meals; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
3,549,999.0012017-11-21Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary serviceshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to accelerate bovine tuberculosis control in developing Ccuntries. Accelerating Bovine tuberculosis Control in Developing Countries (DFID-DF). Investment start date: 11/21/2017 to end date: 9/30/2022. Grantee name: Penn State; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: India|Ethiopia.
100,000.0052017-04-19Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to find new female contraceptives with fewer side effects by developing a high-throughput screening platform to identify compounds that block two processes essential for female fertility without affecting ovulation or hormone production; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
10,000.00132016-09-19Financing/Formal sector financial intermediarieshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to field test agent liquidity management techniques in order to improve access to financial services for the poor; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of.
1,331,374.0022016-06-07Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to use novel modeling approaches to improve measles and rubella vaccination strategies; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
18,931.00122016-05-31Financing/Formal sector financial intermediarieshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to field test agent liquidity management techniques in order to improve access to financial services for the poor; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of.
100,000.0052015-10-28Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve laboratory breeding of malaria-transmitting mosquitoes for research by developing a diet based on soft-bodied insect larvae such as lepidopteran larvae to replace more costly mammalian-blood meals; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,024,879.0032013-10-18Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to use novel modeling approaches to improve measles and rubella vaccination strategies; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052012-04-17Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to produce plants expressing RNAi designed to sterilize ant queens in an effort to reduce populations of ants that act as bodyguards to the aphids that damage plant crops.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052012-04-09Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to investigate the ability of the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) to modulate intestinal inflammation and general intestine health.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
998,578.0042011-01-20Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test whether microwaves can be used to treat malaria-infected mice and study the mechanisms that mediate the killing effect; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.0052010-04-21Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test the theory that malaria infection induces characteristic odor cues to determine if there are biomarkers for diagnosis of infection; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.0052009-10-12Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a polymer reagent to be deposited at the bottom of a small paper cup used to collect a sputum sample, where it will detect proteins secreted by tuberculosis and turn indicate TB-positive samples by changing color.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0052009-02-26Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to infect malaria mosquitoes with an insect-specifi c fungus to determine if the infected mosquitoes’ sense of smell is suppressed and their ability to fi nd human hosts and transmit malaria is reduced.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.