· Private foundation
Gates Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k151 grants · $4.0M
- $50k–250k1153 grants · $166M
- $250k+3644 grants · $6.1B
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GAVI ALLIANCE | $350,500,000 |
| GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THE | $283,358,799 |
| GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $276,581,817 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THE | $120,500,000 |
| WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $64,987,518 |
| WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $52,000,000 |
| PATH | $41,020,752 |
| INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT | $37,900,000 |
| UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF | $35,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION | $34,964,595 |
| AGRA | $32,500,000 |
| HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $31,500,000 |
| COALITION FOR EPIDEMIC PREPAREDNESS INNOVATIONS | $30,000,000 |
| WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION | $28,173,997 |
| AGENCE FRANCAISE DE DEVELOPPEMENT | $20,495,533 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 55% of grant dollars ($23.5B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 45% that went abroad ($19.4B) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $123.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 45% of all-years giving ($19.4B)
112 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Gates Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
1734 repeat relationships — 1146 still active in FY2024, 588 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2B · revenue +76% · 31% of their budget- UOUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $978M · revenue +46% · 90% of their budget
- CHCLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $482M · revenue +93% · 36% of their budget
Funded once
- GFGLOBAL FUND FIGHT AIDS TB MALARIAone grant, 2017 · $101M
- IBINTL BANK RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVone grant, 2017 · $94M
- CACOOPERATIVE ASSIST RELIEF EVRYWHEREone grant, 2017 · $44M
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
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Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Orcid provides an identifier for individuals to use with their name as they engage in research, scholarship, and innovation activities. we provide open tools that enable transparent and trustworthy connections between researchers, their…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
Our mission: to improve the quality of health care.our vision: better health care. better choices. better health.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is The Diller-Von Furstenberg Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
670 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 670 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds PATH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CLINTON HEALTH ACCESS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AIDS VACCINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR TB DRUG DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds JSI RESEARCH & TRAINING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds JHPIEGO CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds POPULATION SERVICES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EHEALTH AFRICA ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRED HUTCHINSON CANCER RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Carnegie Corporation of New York · Raikes Foundation · Medina Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Michael & Susan Dell Foundation · Lumina Foundation for Education Inc · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Overdeck Family Foundation Inc · Stolte Family Foundation · Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation · New Profit Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Gates Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Management Sciences for Health Inc — 67% of income from government
- Jhpiego Corporation — 65% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- University of Delaware — 30% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Achievement Network Ltd — 1% of income from government
- Fund for Educational Excellence Inc — 1% of income from government
- Zearn — 0% of income from government
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Avenir Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.