Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

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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 The Chicago Council on Global Affairs

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 10 534,493 1,146,255 100,000 100,000 250,000 250,000 475,000 534,493 833,000 999,030 2,250,000 2,771,029 3,000,000
Agriculture 8 475,000 1,261,882 100,000 100,000 250,000 250,000 475,000 475,000 999,030 2,250,000 2,771,029 3,000,000 3,000,000
Nutrition 2 534,493 683,747 534,493 534,493 534,493 534,493 534,493 534,493 833,000 833,000 833,000 833,000 833,000

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 2016 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008
Agriculture (filter this donor) 8 10,095,059.00 0.00 2,771,029.00 3,000,000.00 250,000.00 100,000.00 2,500,000.00 475,000.00 999,030.00
Nutrition (filter this donor) 2 1,367,493.00 534,493.00 0.00 833,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 10 11,462,552.00 534,493.00 2,771,029.00 3,833,000.00 250,000.00 100,000.00 2,500,000.00 475,000.00 999,030.00

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 (10 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 10)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
534,493.0062017-11-13Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to make the first 1,000 days concept a ‘household name’—to increase awareness of the critical nature of maternal and early childhood nutrition, and their transformative effects over time; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected countries: United states of america (the).
2,771,029.0022016-09-01Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to generate analysis and policy recommendations that demonstrate the rationale for sustained US and global leadership for nutrition sensitive agricultural development; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia.
3,000,000.0012013-08-07Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the design, adoption, implementation and accountability of U.S. policy for international agricultural development.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
833,000.0052013-03-14Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support The Chicago Council on Global Affairs senior fellow Roger Thurow’s new book on global hunger and malnutrition; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
250,000.0082012-07-10Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the design, adoption, implementation, and accountability of U.S. policy for international agricultural development; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified|South & Central Asia.
100,000.00102011-10-26Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the design, adoption, implementation, and accountability of U.S. policy for international agricultural development; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified|South & Central Asia.
250,000.0082010-10-19Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop recommendations to better support the growth and development of adolescent girls working in the agriculture and food sectors in rural parts of Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
2,250,000.0032010-08-18Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the design, adoption, implementation, and accountability of U.S. policy for international agricultural development; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified|South & Central Asia.
475,000.0072009-06-30Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- for general operating support. General operating support for The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Investment start date: 7/1/2009 to end date: 6/30/2010. Grantee name: The Chicago Council on Global Affairs; Aid type: Core support to NGOs, other private bodies, PPPs and research institutes. Affected regions: South of Sahara|South & Central Asia|Developing countries, unspecified.
999,030.0042008-07-03Agriculture/agricultural policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project providing information to global leaders regarding international development; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South & Central Asia|South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified.