Grant funders
United Kingdom
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Private foundation
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Open calls
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Given in 2025
$4.8bn
Typical grant
$750k
Middle half $275k to $2.0m
New grantees in 2025
28%
first grant from this funder
Giving by year
$3.6bn
2017
1,459
$3.4bn
2018
1,703
$3.5bn
2019
1,853
$3.8bn
2020
2,125
$4.1bn
2021
2,044
$4.8bn
2022
1,958
$5.2bn
2023
2,395
$5.3bn
2024
2,568
$4.8bn
2025
2,499
$2.5bn
2026
1,368
28% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 48% of grantees are funded again within three years
Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.
Where it gives
Washington
5,343 grants · typical $150k
District of Columbia
3,827 grants · typical $600k
New York
3,129 grants · typical $500k
California
2,720 grants · typical $500k
Massachusetts
1,984 grants · typical $700k
Texas
1,107 grants · typical $152k
Maryland
1,006 grants · typical $643k
Illinois
780 grants · typical $100k
All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.
Latest grants made
Garnet Partners Ltd Rwanda
To support the pharmacovigilance and post market surveillance functions, improving public health across Africa by supporting the African Medicines Agency’s mission to deliver quality, safe, effective medical products for African populations
$870k
1 Oct 2026
World health organization Switzerland
To ensure resources are available to enable timely implementation of polio outbreak response campaigns
$25.0m
1 Oct 2026
Trinity College Dublin Ireland
To develop improved rotavirus vaccination strategies to better protect children in low- and middle-income countries by advancing affordable, globally accessible vaccines that reduce severe diarrhoeal disease and child mortality.
$2.5m
1 Oct 2026
University of Global Health Equity Rwanda
To improve newborn survival by developing government-endorsed national roadmaps and coordinated investment plans for scaling neonatal respiratory care across sub-Saharan Africa
$4.0m
1 Oct 2026
African Agricultural Technology Foundation Kenya
To strengthen policies, institutions, and public understanding so African farmers can access safe crop innovations that improve yields, resilience, and nutrition.
$10.5m
1 Oct 2026
Instituto Nacional de Saúde Mozambique
to evaluate a reduced-dose pneumococcal conjugate vaccine schedule in areas where vaccine coverage is suboptimal or inconsistent
$1.8m
1 Oct 2026
Foundation for Excellence in Education United States
To support knowledge building and inform policy development related to AI in K-12 education.
$200k
1 Sep 2026
Fund for the Global Fund United States
To support the mobilization of resources for AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria through partnerships with the Global Fund ecoystem.
$4.0m
1 Sep 2026
Invictus Africa Nigeria
to support a national family planning conference in Nigeria that convenes stakeholders to share knowledge, strengthen collaboration, promote learning, and drive collective action to accelerate progress toward national family planning goals
$210k
1 Sep 2026
Instituto de Salud Global Barcelona Spain
To develop and test the use of artificial intelligence to improve cause of death determination in low-resource settings.
$210k
1 Sep 2026