Bill and Melinda gates Foundation donations made to University of Melbourne

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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
Websitehttp://www.unimelb.edu.au/
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Melbourne
Org Watch pagehttps://orgwatch.issarice.com/?organization=University+of+Melbourne

Full donee page for donee University of Melbourne

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 12 100,000 231,343 50,000 50,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 189,041 197,424 249,881 715,000 824,771
Animal agriculture 4 50,000 121,616 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 50,000 189,041 189,041 197,424 197,424 197,424
Global health 6 100,000 202,500 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 100,000 715,000 715,000
Family planning 2 249,881 537,326 249,881 249,881 249,881 249,881 249,881 249,881 824,771 824,771 824,771 824,771 824,771

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) 6 1,215,000.00 0.00 715,000.00 200,000.00 100,000.00 0.00 0.00 200,000.00
Family planning (filter this donor) 2 1,074,652.00 0.00 249,881.00 0.00 0.00 824,771.00 0.00 0.00
Animal agriculture (filter this donor) 4 486,465.00 189,041.00 0.00 0.00 197,424.00 0.00 100,000.00 0.00
Total 12 2,776,117.00 189,041.00 964,881.00 200,000.00 297,424.00 824,771.00 100,000.00 200,000.00

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)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

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
189,041.0052018-08-08Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary serviceshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a single-injection delayed-release T-solium (swine tapeworm) vaccine that would require a one-time access to facilitate control programs in the Developing World; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
715,000.0022017-09-15Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to further our understanding of the identification and generation of tissue-resident memory T cells, which play an important role in infections, cancer, and auto-immune disease; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
249,881.0032017-06-01Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to fund the planning phase of the Lancet Standing Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing, in order to provide the technical expertise and evidence for effective investments in adolescent health; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062016-10-19Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to prevent soil-transmitted parasite infections by testing different methods to preserve fresh stool for long distance transport to central laboratories where it can be used to detect and quantify eggs from different helminths; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062016-04-13Global health/malariahttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to aid malaria-elimination efforts by developing a low-cost diagnostic using an electrical immunosensor platform that can detect very low levels of the malaria parasite in blood and saliva samples; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
197,424.0042015-11-18Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary serviceshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop a single-injection delayed-release T-solium (swine tapeworm) vaccine that would require a one-time access to facilitate control programs in the Developing World; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062015-04-16Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to ensure the availability of oxygen in low resource settings with unreliable electricity supplies by building a device that stably stores oxygen ready for treating children with pneumonia; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
824,771.0012014-11-14Family planninghttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to the support the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health to develop a report that summarizes the latest evidence for supporting comprehensive adolescent health programs to achieve health and development outcomes; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
50,000.00112013-10-21Animal agriculture/Livestock/veterinary serviceshttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop an effective vaccine against the parasite Theileria parva, which causes East Coast Fever in cattle, by conjugating parasite lysates to nanobeads, which act as an adjuvant to induce a strong immune response.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|Developing countries, unspecified.
50,000.00112013-10-21Animal agriculture/Livestockhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop an effective vaccine against the parasite Theileria parva, which causes East Coast Fever in cattle, by conjugating parasite lysates to nanobeads, which act as an adjuvant to induce a strong immune response.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Africa|Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062009-10-01Global health/STD control including HIV/AIDShttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to develop and test an attenuated influenza virus vector with an adjuvant that stimulates natural killer cells to induce robust immunity at mucosal surfaces to HIV, which is important in both prevention and control of infection.; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.
100,000.0062009-02-26Global health/infectious disease controlhttps://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to evaluate the effectiveness of a prototype vaccine that combines enterotoxin of E. coli with another epitope to attract helper T cells and a lipid adjuvant to ensure delivery of the antigen directly into the cell; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected regions: Developing countries, unspecified.