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Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Name: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation grants, 2022–2024
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License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

13,441
grants reported: $18.24B
total given: 2022–2024
filing years: $505,347
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

development health public awareness analysis global education discovery

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

Polio eradication through WHO, UNICEF, Rotary country programs
Vaccine development and delivery, including Gavi and CEPI
Malaria, TB, HIV, and neglected tropical disease drug pipelines
Maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; family planning
Agricultural development for smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia
U.S. postsecondary, K-12 education, and economic mobility

Typical grant

Median grant is about $505,000, with the middle half between $225,000 and $1.1 million. The nine-figure checks go to multilateral pooled funds and eradication partners like Gavi, the Global Fund, Rotary, and WHO country offices; university and research institute awards typically land in the $1 million to $16 million band. Giving repeats heavily, with the same anchor grantees (PATH, UNICEF, WHO, University of Washington, CIMMYT, MMV) receiving multiple awards in a single year.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

“DISCOVERY AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES”
“ENTERICS, DIAGNOSTICS, GENOMICS & EPIDEMIOLOGY”
“MATERNAL, NEWBORN, CHILD NUTRITION AND HEALTH”
“PNEUMONIA & PANDEMIC PREPAREDNESS”
“GLOBAL HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT PUBLIC AWARENESS AND ANALYSIS”
“DELIVERY OF SOLUTIONS TO IMPROVE GLOBAL HEALTH”

Positioning adjacent work

Frame research under one named strategy label, such as Discovery and Translational Sciences or Enterics, Diagnostics, Genomics & Epidemiology.
Ask in the $1 million to $8 million range for a university-based project; anything larger goes to multilaterals.
Emphasize delivery and translation into low-income country settings, not discovery alone; they fund the path to deployment.
Show partnership with an existing grantee such as PATH, WHO, or a CGIAR center to shorten the trust gap.

Worth knowing: A handful of repeat partners absorb most of the money: Gavi, the Global Fund, Gates MRI, Rotary, WHO country offices, and UNICEF together account for over $1.2 billion in a single year. U.S. recipients cluster in DC, New York, Seattle, California, and Massachusetts, and the U.S. domestic portfolio is a narrow slice covering education and economic mobility, with everything else pointed at low- and middle-income countries.

7 grants matching “stay” · $7.2M

$390,038
Staying Alive Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Empower women and girls
$114,185
Staying Alive Foundation · New York, NY · 2024
Family planning
$4.5M
Mtv Staying Alive Foundation Sa · 2023
Empower women and girls
$824,320
Staying Alive Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Empower women and girls; family planning
$885,376
Staying Alive Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Family planning
$375,316
Staying Alive Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Empower women and girls
$150,000
Im Staying · 2022
Global health and development public awareness and analysis

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

World Health Organization290 grants · $1.12B
Gavi Alliance6 grants · $1.03B
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria the22 grants · $857.3M
United States Fund for Unicef127 grants · $647.0M
Path218 grants · $443.1M
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development133 grants · $345.9M
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute5 grants · $328.6M
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International the5 grants · $326.4M
Gates Medical Research Institute2 grants · $292.2M
University of Washington Foundation134 grants · $282.2M

Giving over time

$5.74B

2022

$6.21B

2023

$6.29B

2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 13,441 grants.

$350.5M
Gavi Alliance · 2024
Vaccine delivery
$340.0M
Gavi Alliance · 2023
Vaccine delivery
$340.0M
Gavi Alliance · 2022
Vaccine delivery
$287.5M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria the · 2023
Global health and development public awareness and analysis
$283.4M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria the · 2024
Global health and development public awareness and analysis
$276.6M
Gates Medical Research Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
Enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities; tuberculosis; vaccine development
$247.3M
Global Fund To Fight AIDS Tuberculosis and Malaria the · 2022
Global health and development public awareness and analysis
$129.2M
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2022
Discovery and translational sciences; enteric and diarrheal diseases; malaria; mnch discovery and tools; pneumonia; research and learning opportunities; tuberculosis
$120.5M
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International the · Evanston, IL · 2024
Polio
$105.0M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$100.0M
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International the · Evanston, IL · 2023
Polio
$100.0M
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International the · Evanston, IL · 2022
Polio
$93.7M
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Discovery and translational sciences; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; mnch discovery and tools; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities; tuberculosis
$87.0M
World Health Organization · 2023
Polio
$82.7M
Bill & Melinda Gates Medical Research Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2023
Enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; mnch discovery and tools; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities; tuberculosis
$65.0M
World Health Organization · 2024
Polio
$64.3M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Polio
$58.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Polio
$55.2M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$52.0M
World Health Organization · 2024
Polio
$50.0M
Pfizer · New York, NY · 2023
Pneumonia & pandemic preparedness
$50.0M
World Health Organization · 2023
Polio
$50.0M
Pfizer · New York, NY · 2022
Pneumonia
$47.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Polio
$45.8M
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Washington, DC · 2022
Enteric and diarrheal diseases; family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; nutrition; pneumonia; research and learning opportunities
$41.0M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2024
Discovery and translational sciences; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; polio; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery; vaccine development
$41.0M
Mmv Medicines for Malaria Venture · 2023
Malaria
$40.0M
Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa · 2022
Agricultural development
$40.0M
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation · Boston, MA · 2023
Community engagement grantmaking
$40.0M
World Health Organization · 2023
Polio
$37.9M
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Washington, DC · 2024
Enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; nutrition… read allEnterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; nutrition; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities less
$37.2M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Polio
$36.0M
Mmv Medicines for Malaria Venture · 2022
Malaria
$35.3M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
Delivery of solutions to improve global health; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sharing; research and learning opportunities; vacc… read allDelivery of solutions to improve global health; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sharing; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery; vaccine development less
$35.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2024
Polio
$35.0M
United Nations Children'S Fund · New York, NY · 2022
Child nutrition
$35.0M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
Delivery of solutions to improve global health; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sh… read allDelivery of solutions to improve global health; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sharing; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery less
$34.6M
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Washington, DC · 2023
Enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools; nutrition; pneumonia & pandemi… read allEnterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools; nutrition; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; research and learning opportunities less
$34.1M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2023
Delivery of solutions to improve global health; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sh… read allDelivery of solutions to improve global health; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; global health and development public awareness and analysis; neglected tropical diseases; public awareness and knowledge sharing; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery less
$32.5M
Agra · 2024
Agricultural development
$31.5M
Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Gardena, CA · 2024
Postsecondary education
$30.0M
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations · 2024
Vaccine development
$30.0M
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations · 2023
Vaccine development
$30.0M
World Health Organization · 2023
Global health and development public awareness and analysis
$30.0M
Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations · 2022
Vaccine development
$30.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Discovery and translational sciences; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools; neglected tropical diseases; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness
$29.8M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Discovery and translational sciences; enteric and diarrheal diseases; malaria; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools; neglected tropical diseases; pneumonia; vaccine development
$29.4M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2023
Discovery and translational sciences; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness; polio; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery; vaccine development
$28.2M
World Health Organization · 2024
Polio
$27.3M
Biological E Limited · 2023
Polio; vaccine development
$26.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Polio
$23.4M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$22.5M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Polio
$21.6M
Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Gardena, CA · 2023
Postsecondary education
$21.4M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$21.0M
Islamic Development Bank · 2023
Polio
$20.5M
Agence Francaise De Developpement · 2024
Polio
$20.4M
Mmv Medicines for Malaria Venture · 2024
Malaria
$20.3M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Polio
$20.2M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2022
Discovery and translational sciences; enteric and diarrheal diseases; malaria; pneumonia; polio; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery; vaccine development
$20.0M
Bloomberg Family Foundation Inc the · New York, NY · 2024
Pneumonia & pandemic preparedness
$20.0M
Agra · 2023
Agricultural development
$20.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Polio
$19.7M
University of Manitoba · 2023
Family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools; vaccine delivery
$19.3M
Task Force for Global Health Inc the · Decatur, GA · 2024
Empower women and girls; hiv; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; neglected tropical diseases; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness
$19.1M
University of Washington Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2024
Hiv
$19.0M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2023
Polio
$18.9M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$18.8M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022
Polio
$18.6M
Path · Seattle, WA · 2022
Discovery and translational sciences; enteric and diarrheal diseases; malaria; pneumonia; polio; research and learning opportunities; vaccine delivery; vaccine development
$18.2M
Urban Institute the · Washington, DC · 2022
U.s. Economic mobility & opportunity
$18.0M
World Health Organization · 2024
Polio
$17.6M
World Health Organization · 2022
Polio
$17.3M
Piramal Swasthya Management and Research Institute · 2023
Family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; mnch discovery and tools
$17.1M
International Potato Center · 2024
Agricultural development
$17.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023
Polio
$16.8M
Biological E Limited · 2023
Vaccine development
$16.3M
American Online Giving Foundation · Clearwater, FL · 2024
Employee matching gift - for general operating support
$16.2M
University of Manitoba · 2022
Family planning; global health and development public awareness and analysis; maternal, neonatal and child health; vaccine delivery
$16.0M
American Online Giving Foundation · Clearwater, FL · 2023
Employee matching gift - for general operating support
$16.0M
Emory University · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Discovery and translational sciences; enterics, diagnostics, genomics & epidemiology; malaria; maternal, newborn, child nutrition and health; neglected tropical diseases; pneumonia & pandemic preparedness
$16.0M
Clinton Health Access Initiative · Boston, MA · 2023
Malaria
$16.0M
Clinton Health Access Initiative · Boston, MA · 2022
Malaria
$16.0M
Hispanic Scholarship Fund · Gardena, CA · 2022
Postsecondary education
$15.6M
Gates Medical Research Institute · Cambridge, MA · 2024
General operating support - in kind
$15.6M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Agricultural development; empower women and girls; enteric and diarrheal diseases; family planning; financial services for the poor; global health and development public awareness and analysis; hiv; malaria; maternal, n… read allAgricultural development; empower women and girls; enteric and diarrheal diseases; family planning; financial services for the poor; global health and development public awareness and analysis; hiv; malaria; maternal, neonatal and child health; nutrition; pneumonia; research and learning opportunities; tobacco control; tuberculosis; vaccine delivery; water, sanitation and hygiene less
$15.5M
American Online Giving Foundation · Clearwater, FL · 2022
Employee matching gift - for general operating support
$15.3M
World Health Organization · 2023
Vaccine delivery
$15.0M
Agra · 2024
Agricultural development
$15.0M
Carter Center Inc the · Atlanta, GA · 2024
Neglected tropical diseases
$15.0M
United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2024
Polio
$15.0M
Agra · 2023
Agricultural development
$15.0M
Carter Center Inc the · Atlanta, GA · 2023
Neglected tropical diseases
$15.0M
Co-Impact Philanthropic Funds · New York, NY · 2023
Empower women and girls
$15.0M
Lakeside School · Seattle, WA · 2023
Community engagement grantmaking
$15.0M
Carter Center Inc the · Atlanta, GA · 2022
Neglected tropical diseases
$15.0M
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Washington, DC · 2022
Global health and development public awareness and analysis
$15.0M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Empower women and girls
$14.9M
Global Alliance for Tb Drug Development · New York, NY · 2024
Tuberculosis
$14.9M
Global Alliance for Tb Drug Development · New York, NY · 2023
Tuberculosis

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