Bill Gates

The four-line truth

Lines are separate lifecycle measures and are never summed: committed = donor-published lifetime award totals; awaiting = latest-FY statutory 'approved for future payment' balance; deployed = disclosed paid amounts (withheld-amount gifts counted separately). Absence of events is absence of loaded evidence, not zero giving.

Top recipients

1. WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION203 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$739.3M
2. GAVI ALLIANCE4 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$693.8M
3. GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS AND MALARIA THE20 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$609.8M
4. UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF90 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$368.1M
5. PATH152 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$306.4M
6. GATES MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE2 grants · FY2024 ·statutory$292.2M
7. ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL THE4 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$226.4M
8. INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT97 grants · FY2023–FY2024 ·statutory$215.1M

Largest recipients across loaded paid line-item records; recipient names as filed (entity resolution pending). Aggregate-basis sources carry no recipient detail.

Transparency

• Publishes an open grants databaseGates Foundation committed-grants database40/40
• Capital traceable to a named recipient100% of $12,545,176,35930/30
• Statutory filings carry recipient detail100% of $12,545,176,359 filed15/15
• Most recent evidenceFY202415/15

US private foundations must name material grantees on Form 990-PF, so recipient-level detail here is compelled, not volunteered.

Voluntary points reward disclosure the donor chose — publishing an open grants database, and naming recipients. Compelled points reflect how completely and how currently their statutory filings land. The split exists because disclosure regimes differ by jurisdiction: a high compelled score is law-abiding, not generous, and a low one may reflect a rule the donor did not write.

Vehicles · 14 founder-linked via Wikidata

• MicrosoftEIN unresolved in loaded subset
• Xbox Game Studiosno EIN claim
• The Giving Pledgeno EIN claim
• Branded Entertainment Networkno EIN claim
• Gates FoundationEIN confirmed · IRS BMFEIN 562618866 · SEATTLE, WA · assets $78.67B
• bgC3no EIN claim
• Microsoft Researchno EIN claim
• DATAno EIN claim
• Traf-O-Datano EIN claim
• TerraPowerno EIN claim
• Cascade Investmentno EIN claim
• FWD.usno EIN claim
• Breakthrough Energy Coalitionno EIN claim
• Goalkeepers (Gates Foundation)no EIN claim

Provenance