The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is an American private foundation based in Seattle, Washington.
The William H. Gates Foundation was launched in 1994. In 1997, Bill Gates and Melinda Gates launched the Gates Library Foundation, which later became the Gates Learning Foundation.[1]
In 1997, the foundation gave $2.25 million to the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health to establish "a training and research program for family planning and reproductive health specialists from developing nations." This program was the basis for the creation of the Bill & Melinda Gates Institute for Population and Reproductive Health in 1999, for which the foundation provided an additional $20 million.[2]
On December 2, 1998, the Bill and Melinda Gates Children's Vaccine Program (CVP) launched with a 5-year $100 million grant from the Gates Foundation.[3]
In 2000, the William H. Gates Foundation merged with the Gates Learning Foundation to form the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[1:1]
In February 2004, the Gates Foundation awarded a 5-year US$82.9 million grant to the Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation. Aeras and the Gates Foundation co-funded an “infant and adolescent TB Vaccine Site preparation study” alongside the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCCTP) at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda.[4]
In January 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates called for the following ten years to be a “decade of vaccines.” This was cited as the basis for the creation of the Decade of Vaccines Collaboration, launched in December 2010 by the Gates Foundation, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), UNICEF and the World Health Organization.[5]
On January 12, 2016, Moderna announced that it had entered a funding agreement with the Gates Foundation to develop therapeutics against HIV and other diseases. The agreement included an initial $20 million grant, with the potential to increase the amount to $100 million.[6][7]
In November 2016, AbCellera received a $645,000 USD grant from the Gates Foundation to develop a test for tuberculosis.[8]
On September 4, 2019, BioNTech announced it had received a $55 million grant from the Gates Foundation to expand its HIV and tuberculosis portfolios.[9]
The Gates Foundation co-hosted a pandemic preparedness exercise called Event 201 in New York City on October 18, 2019, in partnership with the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the World Economic Forum.[10]
On March 10, 2020, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard and Wellcome Trust announced a commitment of up to $125 million towards the creation of the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator.[11][12]
In June 2020, the foundation contributed $750 million to the development of the AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine.[13]
In November 2021, the Gates Foundation gave $2,118,334 to Providence Therapeutics to develop more cost-effective mRNA vaccines.[14]
AbCellera received a second grant from the Gates Foundation in January 2022 to “identify potent anti-RSV monoclonal antibodies to protect infants in low and middle income countries from RSV infection morbidity and mortality.”[15]
On May 13, 2024, Melinda Gates announced her departure from the Gates Foundation.[16]
The Gates Foundation has been a client of Hardpin Media,[17] Message Global[18] and williamsworks.[19] It is also a member organization of Philanthropy Northwest.[20]
Name | Position | Notes |
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Bill Gates | Co-Founder[16:1] | Microsoft |
Melinda Gates | Co-Founder[16:2] | Pivotal Ventures |
Mark Suzman | Chief Executive Officer[16:3] | - |
Warren Buffett | Trustee (former)[16:4] | Berkshire Hathaway |
The Gates Foundation makes direct investments in for-profit ventures through its Strategic Investment Fund (SIF).
The Gates Foundation has provided funding to:
Our story. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Retrieved February 4, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.02.04-092247/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/our-story ↩︎ ↩︎
O’Shea, D., & Pettengill, L. (1999, May). Gates Foundations Give Johns Hopkins $20 Million Gift to School of Public Health for Population, Reproductive Health Institute. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2021.08.26-074051/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-center/press-releases/1999/05/johns-hopkins-university-school-of-public-health ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Kane, M. (2000, January). Year One In Review. Children’s Vaccine Program. https://web.archive.org/web/20000903064454/http://www.childrensvaccine.org/files/CVP-Year-One.pdf ↩︎
Research Projects. (2017, August). Infectious Diseases Institute. https://web.archive.org/web/20230517200932/https://idi.mak.ac.ug/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Research-Projects.pdf ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
Robert, M., Hasan, H., Moen, C., & Billet, C. (2010, December 2). Global Health Leaders Launch Decade of Vaccines Collaboration. World Health Organization. http://archive.today/2013.10.30-095609/http://www.who.int/immunization/newsroom/press/news_release_decade_vaccines/en/index.html ↩︎
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation — Advancing an mRNA-based antibody combination to help prevent HIV infection. Moderna. Retrieved March 21, 2022, from http://archive.today/2021.08.23-023928/https://www.modernatx.com/ecosystem/strategic-collaborators/foundations-advancing-mrna-science-and-research ↩︎ ↩︎
Moderna Wins Initial $20M Grant from Gates Foundation. (2016, January 12). GEN - Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News. http://archive.today/2023.02.03-040340/https://www.genengnews.com/topics/omics/moderna-wins-initial-20m-grant-from-gates-foundation/ ↩︎ ↩︎
AbCellera Biologics Inc. (2016, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.05.04-180458/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2016/11/opp1163209 ↩︎ ↩︎
Boehler, M. (2019, September 4). BioNTech announces new collaboration to develop HIV and tuberculosis programs. BioNTech. http://archive.today/2022.01.03-191438/https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/biontech-announces-new-collaboration-develop-hiv-and ↩︎ ↩︎
Event 201, a pandemic exercise to illustrate preparedness efforts. Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. Retrieved January 3, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.01.03-222033/https://www.centerforhealthsecurity.org/event201/ ↩︎
COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. (2020, March 10). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2021.04.25-054406/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/Ideas/Media-Center/Press-Releases/2020/03/COVID-19-Therapeutics-Accelerator ↩︎ ↩︎
Suzman, M. (2020, March 10). Announcing the COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.01.18-165008/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/articles/coronavirus-mark-suzman-therapeutics ↩︎
Canellis, D. (2020, June 5). Bill Gates commits $750M to help Oxford vaccinate the world against COVID-19. TNW | Fintech-Ecommerce. http://archive.today/2023.02.25-123239/https://thenextweb.com/news/bill-gates-covid-coronavirus-vaccine-750-million-oxford-azd1222 ↩︎
Providence Therapeutics. (2021, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.06.14-010933/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2021/11/inv036094 ↩︎ ↩︎
AbCellera Biologics Inc. (2022, January). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2022.05.04-180519/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2022/01/inv027467 ↩︎ ↩︎
Nerkar, S. (2024, May 13). Melinda French Gates to Resign From Gates Foundation. The New York Times. http://archive.today/2024.05.14-021009/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/13/business/melinda-gates-resigns-gates-foundation.html ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎
What We Do. Hardpin Media. Retrieved October 11, 2024, from http://archive.today/2024.10.11-000304/https://www.hardpinmedia.com/our-works↩︎ ↩︎
What. Message Global. Retrieved November 5, 2016, from https://web.archive.org/web/20161105104753/http://message-global.com/what ↩︎
Rapkin, M. (2013, November 11). When Ben Affleck Wants to Change the World, He Calls This Woman. ELLE. https://web.archive.org/web/20221209035154/https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a12614/whitney-williams-profile/ ↩︎
Our Members. Philanthropy Northwest. Retrieved August 18, 2015, from https://web.archive.org/web/20150818195029/https://philanthropynw.org/current-members ↩︎
Wellcome, Gates pledge $300 million to prevent future epidemics. (2022, January 20). Philanthropy News Digest. https://web.archive.org/web/20220120223745/https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/wellcome-gates-pledge-300-million-to-prevent-future-epidemics ↩︎
Data & Society Funder List. Data & Society. Retrieved December 28, 2022, from https://web.archive.org/web/20221228084750/https://datasociety.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Funders-List-2021-December-2021.pdf ↩︎
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation donations made to Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B.V. Vipul Naik. Retrieved March 29, 2023, from http://archive.today/2023.03.29-052407/https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donorDonee.php?donor=Bill+and+Melinda+Gates+Foundation&donee=Janssen+Vaccines+%26+Prevention+B.V. ↩︎
Home. Nextstrain. Retrieved October 2, 2022, from http://archive.today/2022.10.02-132717/https://nextstrain.org/ ↩︎
Third Way Institute. (2019, November). Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. http://archive.today/2024.03.27-175106/https://www.gatesfoundation.org/about/committed-grants/2019/11/inv001704 ↩︎
2018 annual report - Our donors. Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved May 19, 2024, from https://web.archive.org/web/20240519165820/https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/2018-annual-report/donors/#section-5 ↩︎