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
Item | Value |
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Country | |
Facebook page | UniversityofMassachusetts |
Website | http://www.massachusetts.edu/ |
Twitter username | BostonSchools |
Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts |
Full donee page for donee University of Massachusetts
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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 | 10 | 100,000 | 429,525 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 90,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 999,746 | 2,595,505 |
Global health | 8 | 100,000 | 513,156 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 999,746 | 2,595,505 | 2,595,505 |
Sanitation | 1 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 | 90,000 |
Waste management | 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 |
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 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2009 |
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Global health (filter this donor) | 8 | 4,105,251.00 | 100,000.00 | 10,000.00 | 999,746.00 | 2,695,505.00 | 300,000.00 |
Waste management (filter this donor) | 1 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 100,000.00 | 0.00 |
Sanitation (filter this donor) | 1 | 90,000.00 | 0.00 | 90,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Total | 10 | 4,295,251.00 | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | 999,746.00 | 2,795,505.00 | 300,000.00 |
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 10) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
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100,000.00 | 3 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to boost the discovery of new treatments for typhoid fever, which causes enteric dysfunction, by evaluating two genetically engineered mouse models that can be infected with the same Salmonella bacterium that causes the human disease.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
10,000.00 | 10 | Global health/Health education | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to convert the energy contained in human waste into electricity and remove the organic matter and nutrients that deteriorate ecosystems and allow pathogens to persist in water using a modular Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) designed to retrofit existing compost; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
90,000.00 | 9 | Sanitation/basic sanitation | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to convert the energy contained in human waste into electricity and remove the organic matter and nutrients that deteriorate ecosystems and allow pathogens to persist in water using a modular Microbial Fuel Cell (MFC) designed to retrofit existing compost; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
999,746.00 | 2 | Global health/infectious disease control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to optimize the therapeutic activity and production of non-toxic, anti-roundworm proteins in food-grade bacteria to provide a cure for hookworms and other soil-transmitted helminths.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
100,000.00 | 3 | Waste management/disposal | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to adapt pit latrines to harvest organic substrates and nitrogen compounds in human waste using microbial fuel cells to transform the biochemical energy into carbon-neutral electricity.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
2,595,505.00 | 1 | Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDS | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop an effective HIV vaccine to control the transmission of human immodeficiency viruses; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
100,000.00 | 3 | Global health/Reproductive health care | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to develop novel siRNA-based therapies for preeclampsia and related disorders for use in the developing world to significantly improve mother and infant health worldwide.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
100,000.00 | 3 | Global health/Tuberculosis control | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to test the idea of delivering small interfering RNA (siRNAs) via glucan particles in an oral TB vaccine formulation. The team will utilize the siRNAs’ ability to block immunosuppressive signaling and amplify the immune response.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
100,000.00 | 3 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to better understand the role that antimicrobial peptides play in the immune system, Gregory Tew will test synthetic molecules that mimic these peptides for their ability to clear bacteria by engaging the innate and adaptive immune system.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. | |
100,000.00 | 3 | Global health/Medical research | https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf | -- | to attempt to design drugs to disrupt the biosynthesis of octopamine as a new strategy to interfere with the lifecycle of invertebrate parasites.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified. |