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Gates Philanthropy Partners

The mission of GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS is to work in partnership with the gates foundation and philanthropists to promote global development, global health, and u.s.

$63M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$41MInternational$19MEducation$5.2MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.2MPublic Benefit$850kSocial Science$800kCommunity Improvement$500k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 3 grants below total $1,900,005 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $63,437,324 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $61,537,319 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$500,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$85M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF$1,150,005
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION$500,000
MENLO EDUCATION RESEARCH LLC$250,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BILL & MELINDA GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $18.0M → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL INC: $1.5M → 16%TEMPLE UNIVERSITY -- OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION: $600k → 22%MENLO EDUCATION RESEARCH LLC: $250k → 7%REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY: $100k → 10%CHANGEORG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 10%THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $4.5M → 11%UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250k → 14%THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $100k → 14%END FUND INC: $500k → 17%WILLIAM MARSH RICE UNIVERSITY: $1.0M → 16%THE URBAN INSTITUTE: $800k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $420k → 12%CHARTER FUND INC: $250k → 7%SOMALOGIC INC: $500k → 12%PANORAMA GLOBAL: $250k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $549k → 14%CERTARA USA INC: $4.2M → 11%NATIONAL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER: $993k → 6%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $115k → 8%VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY: $550k → 22%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH INC: $538k → 8%JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE: $1.8M → 19%BILL & MELINDA GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2.8M → 8%DISTRIBUTED BIO INC: $620k → 7%CODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC: $350k → 10%THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $2.0M → 11%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $16.8M → 17%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $420k → 12%SOMALOGIC INC: $490k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION: $500k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO: $326k → 14%FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH INC: $337k → 8%NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $2.1M → 8%CENTIVAX INC: $375k → 7%THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $125k → 11%UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $1.2M → 17%PROSPERITY NOW: $500k → 14%OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 12%ONEGOAL: $750k → 14%COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INCORPORATED: $500k → 8%NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC: $871k → 8%DIAGNOSTIC CONSULTING NETWORK INC: $900k → 11%DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COLLEGE SUCCESS FOUNDATION: $120k → 14%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $177k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $490k → 17%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $127k → 8%ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI: $100k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
GA
TX

Grants abroad, by region — $62M on the FY2024 return

Schedule F, as filed: 4 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$44M · 72% · 8 grants

Stated purpose: GLOBAL HEALTH AGENCIES AND FUNDS · MATERNAL, NEWBORN, CHILD NUTRITION AND HEALTH · GLOBAL EDUCATION

South Asia$16M · 26% · 5 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RESPONSE · WATER, SANITATION AND HYGIENE · WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

North America (Canada and Mexico)$800k · 1% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: COVID-19

Middle East and North Africa$350k · 1% · 2 grants

Stated purpose: EMERGENCY RESPONSE

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$46M · 5 repeat orgs$24M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
34

Total granted

$46M
$24M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $750k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • GM
    GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $21M · revenue +314% · 56% of their budget
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
    2× · 2023–2024 · $18M · revenue +1%
  • TS
    THE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    3× · 2019–2021 · $6.6M · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • CU
    CERTARA USA INC
    one grant, 2020 · $4.2M
  • NI
    NOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC
    one grant, 2021 · $3.0M
  • JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $1.8M · revenue +42%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
3
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
6
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
7
United States Naval Institute

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.

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8
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
9
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
10
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charter Fund Inc D/B/a Charter School Growth Fund and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr16%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%37%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%13%35–55yr16%42%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,522

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.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $20,827,278 · HealthGATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTETHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $6,614,988 · HealthTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE+1 more — $875,001 · HealthUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $17,946,057 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF+8 more — $898,000 · InternationalCERTARA USA INC — $4,172,000 · OtherCERTARA USA INCNOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH INC — $2,958,994 · OtherNOVARTIS INSTITUTES FOR …MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $1,500,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INC…NATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER — $992,609 · OtherNATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOU…SOMALOGIC INC — $990,037 · OtherSOMALOGIC INCDCN DIAGNOSTICS — $900,000 · OtherDCN DIAGNOSTICSOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY — $890,658 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE …DISTRIBUTED BIO INC — $619,969 · OtherVCUVCU HEALTH CAMPUS — $550,000 · Other+6 more — $1,574,906 · Other+6 moreJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,780,639 · EducationJOHNS HOPK…William Marsh Rice University — $1,000,000 · EducationWilliam Ma…University of Chicago — $874,999 · EducationUniversity…Temple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $600,000 · EducationTemple Uni…UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INC — $500,000 · EducationTHE COLERI…Cornell University — $490,000 · EducationCornell Un…President and Fellows of Harvard College — $419,478 · EducationPresident …UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 · Education+3 more — $238,000 · EducationTHE CHANGEORG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 · Public BenefitCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $350,493 · Public BenefitTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $800,000 · Social ScienceONEGOAL — $750,000 · Youth Development
Health$28,317,267International$18,844,057Other$15,149,173Education$6,653,116Public Benefit$850,493Social Science$800,000Youth Development$750,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $20,827,278 over 2y, 56% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $17,946,057 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE — $6,614,988 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $1,780,639 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliam Marsh Rice University — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATL STUDENT CLEARINGHOUSE RESEARCH CENTER — $992,609 over 1y, 11% of budgetFoundation for the National Institutes of Health Inc — $875,001 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $874,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE — $800,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONEGOAL — $750,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education — $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe End Fund Inc — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CHANGEORG CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROSPERITY NOW — $500,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE COLERIDGE INITIATIVE INC — $500,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCornell University — $490,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $419,478 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCODE FOR AMERICA LABS INC — $350,493 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPANORAMA GLOBAL — $250,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHARTER FUND INC D/B/A CHARTER SCHOOL GROWTH FUND — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Success Foundation - District of Columbia — $120,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $58,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRAC USA INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND — $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOSTAN INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gates FoundationThe David and Lucile …Tides FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Gates FoundationWA26.9× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gates Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Philanthropy Partners 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gates Philanthropy Partners?

Find your warmest path to Gates Philanthropy Partners through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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