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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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 Penn State in our system.
Full donee page for donee Penn State
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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 |
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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 |
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 |
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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)
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 14) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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-709.19 | 14 | Global health/malaria | https://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. | |
3,549,999.00 | 1 | Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary services | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Family planning | https://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. | |
10,000.00 | 13 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://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. | |
1,331,374.00 | 2 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://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. | |
18,931.00 | 12 | Financing/Formal sector financial intermediaries | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Global health/malaria | https://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. | |
1,024,879.00 | 3 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Agriculture/agricultural research | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://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. | |
998,578.00 | 4 | Global health/malaria | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Global health/malaria | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Global health/Tuberculosis control | https://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. | |
100,000.00 | 5 | Global health/malaria | https://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. |