Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning McGill University

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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

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Country

Full donee page for donee Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning McGill University

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 12 100,000 377,753 50,000 99,350 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 196,305 276,827 499,970 954,533 1,956,045
Global health 8 196,305 516,710 50,000 50,000 100,000 100,000 196,305 196,305 276,827 499,970 954,533 1,956,045 1,956,045
Agriculture 3 100,000 99,783 99,350 99,350 99,350 99,350 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000
Nutrition 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

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 2017 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2008
Global health (filter this donor) 8 4,133,680.00 50,000.00 0.00 2,152,350.00 1,331,360.00 0.00 499,970.00 100,000.00
Agriculture (filter this donor) 3 299,350.00 0.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 99,350.00
Nutrition (filter this donor) 1 100,000.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 12 4,533,030.00 50,000.00 100,000.00 2,252,350.00 1,331,360.00 100,000.00 499,970.00 199,350.00

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

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (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 (12 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 12)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
50,000.00122017-09-07Global health/Health policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to host a conference to study the potential of Open Science to accelerate research by decreasing barriers for study in diseases that affect the world’s poorest populations; Aid type: Other technical assistance. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062015-10-13Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to restore healthy gut bacteria in children to reduce stunting by comparing the types of phage and bacteria found in stunted versus healthy children and analyzing the effect of specific phage on gut microbe composition under different conditions.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
196,305.0052014-10-14Global health/basic health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to apply novel visualization, analytics and modeling approaches to develop new hypotheses and characterize child growth and physical and cognitive growth outcomes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,956,045.0012014-10-01Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a prototype software platform that enables integration and analysis of health indicators to support decisions about disease control interventions and program funding; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Gambia (the)|Uganda.
100,000.0062014-04-15Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to use the knowledge and expertise of women smallholder farmers in developing countries to better inform agricultural development projects for food security by using special interview techniques and providing visual communication aids.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
954,533.0022013-10-08Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a prototype software platform that enables integration and analysis of health indicators to support decisions about disease control interventions and program funding; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Gambia (the)|Uganda.
100,000.0062013-10-07Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve detection and monitoring of helminth infections, which are caused by parasitic worms, by developing a diagnostic to detect parasitic microRNAs present within small extracellular vesicles (exosomes) in blood samples from infected people.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
276,827.0042013-02-15Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the development of anthelmintics that act on nematode peptide GPCRs will be found in screens of novel chemicals, primarily in Africa; these drugs will act on multiple targets and delay development of resistance; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062012-02-22Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a conference that will engage a unique set of actors and experts working at the intersection of agriculture, public health, and private sector growth to identify opportunities for improving nutritional outcomes in India; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified; affected countries: India.
499,970.0032011-01-14Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the development of anthelmintics that act on nematode peptide GPCRs will be found in screens of novel chemicals, primarily in Africa; these drugs will act on multiple targets and delay development of resistance; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062008-09-15Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop drug screening centers to identify lead compounds to use against local diseases, including parasitic nematodes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa.
99,350.00112008-08-22Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support an agricultural development conference. to support an agricultural development conference. Investment start date: 8/1/2008 to end date: 8/1/2009. Grantee name: Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning McGill University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.