Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to Tulane 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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page TulaneU
Websitehttp://tulane.edu
Twitter usernameTulaneNews
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_University
Instagram usernametulaneu

Full donee page for donee Tulane 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 21 100,000 628,417 -23,411 0 0 6,468 50,000 100,000 100,000 250,000 559,388 1,199,959 4,933,201
Financial policy and administrative management 2 -23,411 278,876 -23,411 0 0 0 0 0 581,162 581,162 581,162 581,162 581,162
Agriculture 3 6,468 111,288 -3,581 0 0 0 6,468 6,468 6,468 330,976 330,976 330,976 330,976
Global health 8 50,000 119,437 -2,155 0 0 50,000 50,000 50,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 559,388 559,388
Information and communication technology (ICT) 3 2,772 47,695 -1,535 0 0 0 2,772 2,772 2,772 141,847 141,847 141,847 141,847
Public finance management (PFM) 2 23,411 2,478,306 23,411 23,411 23,411 23,411 23,411 23,411 4,933,201 4,933,201 4,933,201 4,933,201 4,933,201
Family planning 3 1,199,959 2,083,320 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 1,199,959 1,199,959 1,199,959 4,800,000 4,800,000 4,800,000 4,800,000

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 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008
Family planning (filter this donor) 3 6,249,959.00 250,000.00 4,800,000.00 1,199,959.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Public finance management (PFM) (filter this donor) 2 4,956,611.81 0.00 23,410.81 0.00 4,933,201.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Global health (filter this donor) 8 955,495.75 0.00 0.00 0.00 659,388.00 -2,155.45 0.00 98,263.20 0.00 100,000.00 100,000.00
Financial policy and administrative management (filter this donor) 2 557,751.19 0.00 -23,410.81 0.00 0.00 0.00 581,162.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Agriculture (filter this donor) 3 333,862.80 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -3,581.30 337,444.10 0.00
Information and communication technology (ICT) (filter this donor) 3 143,084.06 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 -1,534.84 144,618.90 0.00
Total 21 13,196,764.61 250,000.00 4,800,000.00 1,199,959.00 5,592,589.00 -2,155.45 581,162.00 98,263.20 -5,116.14 582,063.00 100,000.00

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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 (21 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 21)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
250,000.0072018-11-30Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to fund evaluation activities that will generate an evidence base regarding the effects and causal pathways of an intensive, theory-driven family planning mass communication campaign; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria.
-23,410.81212017-04-26Financial policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop and apply a comprehensive framework to analyze the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty in low-income countries (pilot cases: Ghana and Tanzania); and, to develop indicators to assess the efficiency and effectiveness; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Ghana.
23,410.81142017-04-26Public finance management (PFM)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase the equity and poverty reduction impact of fiscal policies in developing countries, in particular Africa, through the support to the Commitment to Equity Institute; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified.
4,800,000.0022017-03-10Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to improve Family Planning, Maternal, Child and Newborn Health, and Nutrition outcomes in selected health zones in the city of Kinshasa; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Congo (the democratic republic of the).
1,199,959.0032016-11-04Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to fund evaluation activities that will generate an evidence base regarding the effects and causal pathways of an intensive, theory-driven family planning mass communication campaign; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Nigeria.
4,933,201.0012015-10-29Public finance management (PFM)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to increase the equity and poverty reduction impact of fiscal policies in developing countries, in particular Africa, through the support to the Commitment to Equity Institute; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara|Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0092015-10-08Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support laboratory breeding of mosquitoes for studying human diseases by developing an artificial meal based on algae as a simple, low-cost protein source that can be freeze dried for stable storage, and a reusable feeding system; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
559,388.0052015-06-09Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to understand characteristics of Mtb-containing aerosols to design natural transmission models needed to study early events after infection and develop new interventions to interrupt transmission; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
-2,155.45192014-07-23Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a membrane that can be placed in the mother’s vagina just prior to delivery to facilitate the baby’s passage through the birth canal; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
581,162.0042013-11-12Financial policy and administrative managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop and apply a comprehensive framework to analyze the impact of taxation and public spending on inequality and poverty in low-income countries (pilot cases: Ghana and Tanzania); and, to develop indicators to assess the efficiency and effectiveness; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Tanzania, united republic of|Ghana.
-1,736.80182012-09-24Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test if codon harmonization can fully and correctly express a complex malaria gamete surface protein and block the transmission of malaria in insect vectors; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
100,000.0092012-04-03Global health/Reproductive health carehttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a membrane that can be placed in the mother’s vagina just prior to delivery to facilitate the baby’s passage through the birth canal; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
-3,581.30202011-07-27Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
-1,534.84172011-07-27Information and communication technology (ICT)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
100,000.0092009-09-24Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to test if codon harmonization can fully and correctly express a complex malaria gamete surface protein and block the transmission of malaria in insect vectors; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: South of Sahara.
2,772.00162009-09-02Information and communication technology (ICT)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
6,468.00152009-09-02Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
141,846.9082009-01-15Information and communication technology (ICT)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
330,976.1062009-01-15Agriculture/agricultural researchhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a project to provide agricultural weather data. Weather Surfaces: Agricultural Information System. Investment start date: 2/2/2009 to end date: 8/2/2010. Grantee name: Tulane University; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Zimbabwe|Botswana|Kenya|Malawi|Mozambique|Tanzania, united republic of|Zambia|Uganda.
50,000.00122008-09-19Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to research the use of immune tolerance of dominant HIV epitopes prior to conventional vaccination with an HIV protein in order to stimulate a broader immune response.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
50,000.00122008-09-19Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to research the use of immune tolerance of dominant HIV epitopes prior to conventional vaccination with an HIV protein in order to stimulate a broader immune response.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.