Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to United Nations Office for Project Services, Geneva

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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 United Nations Office for Project Services, Geneva in our system.

Full donee page for donee United Nations Office for Project Services, Geneva

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 15 1,866,587 2,086,467 -125,237 43,250 100,000 207,399 250,000 1,866,587 2,000,000 3,000,000 3,300,000 5,000,000 8,985,000
Global health 9 2,000,000 1,903,574 -125,237 0 207,399 250,000 1,000,000 2,000,000 2,000,000 3,300,000 3,500,000 5,000,000 5,000,000
Multisector aid 3 100,000 104,417 43,250 43,250 43,250 43,250 100,000 100,000 100,000 170,000 170,000 170,000 170,000
Water 1 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587 1,866,587
Nutrition 1 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000 3,000,000
Urban development and management 1 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000 8,985,000

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 2009
Global health (filter this donor) 9 17,132,161.97 -125,236.63 3,500,000.00 5,300,000.00 5,000,000.00 1,250,000.00 2,000,000.00 207,398.60
Urban development and management (filter this donor) 1 8,985,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 8,985,000.00 0.00
Nutrition (filter this donor) 1 3,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 3,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Water (filter this donor) 1 1,866,587.40 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 1,866,587.40
Multisector aid (filter this donor) 3 313,250.00 0.00 0.00 170,000.00 0.00 143,250.00 0.00 0.00
Total 15 31,296,999.37 -125,236.63 3,500,000.00 8,470,000.00 5,000,000.00 1,393,250.00 10,985,000.00 2,073,986.00

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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 (15 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 15)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
-125,236.63152018-01-08Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide critical emergency support to populations affected by the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Sierra Leone through the support of a National Emergency Response Operations Center; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Sierra leone.
3,500,000.0032017-02-22Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the Roll Board Malaria Partnership to provide a coordinated global platform to accelerate action and investment towards a malaria free world; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
3,000,000.0052016-11-23Nutrition/basic nutritionhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the activities of Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement Secretariat in its role helping the SUN Movement achieve three key objectives; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
170,000.00122016-11-21Multisector aidhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support membership in, and implementation of, the International Aid and Transparency Initiative (IATI); Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
2,000,000.0062016-09-28Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the TB REACH program, which provides awards to test and evaluate innovative approaches to TB control in populations that are poor, vulnerable and have limited access to care; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
3,300,000.0042016-09-27Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide for general operating support of the Stop TB Partnership Operational Strategy (2017-2019); Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
5,000,000.0022015-11-24Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the TB REACH program, which provides awards to test and evaluate innovative approaches to TB control in populations that are poor, vulnerable and have limited access to care; Aid type: Contributions to specific-purpose programmes and funds managed by implementing partners. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,000,000.0092014-12-29Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the execution of the Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Partnership’s Operational strategy in contributing to the Global Plan to Stop TB; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.00132014-10-27Multisector aidhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support membership in the International Aid and Transparency Initiative (IATI); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
250,000.00102014-09-30Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to provide critical emergency support to populations affected by the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Sierra Leone through the support of a National Emergency Response Operations Center; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: Sierra leone.
43,250.00142014-01-30Multisector aidhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support membership in the International Aid and Transparency Initiative (IATI); Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
8,985,000.0012013-11-20Urban development and managementhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support a Cities Alliance project to strengthen organizations of the urban poor and to help local governments increase the provision of land and services to the urban poor and recognize their right to the city through granting of citizenship; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
2,000,000.0062013-10-29Global health/Tuberculosis controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the execution of the Stop Tuberculosis (TB) Partnership’s Operational strategy in contributing to the Global Plan to Stop TB; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
1,866,587.4082009-11-25Water/basic drinking water supply and basic sanitationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council in national and international advocacy activities around effective sanitation needs and approaches for developing countries; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
207,398.60112009-11-25Global health/Health educationhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council in national and international advocacy activities around effective sanitation needs and approaches for developing countries; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.