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Recipient
Recipient
State/Country Foundation
30 Largest Gr a nts, 2007
Foundation
State Amount Purpose
1. Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation MD Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA $200,665,210 To develop and license improved vaccine against tuberculosis for use in high-burden countries
2. Alliance for a Green
Revolution in Africa
3. University of California at
Berkeley Foundation
Kenya Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 164,580,000 To help build sustainable foundation for agricultural sector growth by restoring African soil
fertility (with focus on Angola)
CA William and Flora Hewlett Foundation CA 110,000,000 For challenge grant to endow 100 faculty chairs
4. University of Washington WA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 105,228,184 To create Global Health Metrics Institute
5. Rotary Foundation of Rotary Intl. IL Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 100,000,000 For global polio eradication activities through Rotary Foundation's PolioPlus program
6. Foundation for Innovative
New Diagnostics
7. University of Washington
Foundation
Switzerland Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 62,630,901 To accelerate late-stage development of diagnostic tests for neglected infectious diseases
such as tuberculosis
WA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 61,223,271 To conduct Phase III trial of safety and efficacy of TDF and FTC/TDF in reducing HIV acquisition
among HIV-negative partners within heterosexual HIV-discordant couples
8. Southwestern Medical Foundation TX T. Boone Pickens Foundation TX 50,156,353 Unspecified
9. World Health Organization Switzerland Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 50,000,000 To scale up access to treatment for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis in developing countries
10. PATH Vaccine Solutions WA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 50,000,000 To develop Shigella and Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) vaccines that induce persistent immunity
and are effective in preventing disease in populations most at risk, especially young children
11. University of Texas M.D. TX T. Boone Pickens Foundation TX 49,478,000 Unspecified
Anderson Cancer Center
12. TechnoServe CT Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 46,955,200 To help entrepreneurial men and women in poor rural areas of developing world (with focus on
Kenya) build business
13. Conservation International VA Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation CA 46,729,207 To support Global Conservation Fund, which finances creation, expansion, and long-term
management of protected areas in both healthy areas of the world and damaged ones
14. Indiana University Foundation IN Lilly Endowment IN 44,000,000 For Jacobs School of Music faculty studio building
15. Heifer Project International AR Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 42,850,000 To move smallholders simultaneously to stimulate milk production, dairy-sector services,
business development and dairy market pull, with focus on smallholders in Kenya
16. African Agricultural
Kenya Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 42,450,000 To develop drought-tolerant maize for small farmers in Africa, with focus on farmers in Kenya
Technology Foundation
17. Vanguard Charit. Endowment Prgm. PA Aspen Foundation NJ 41,103,351 For general support
18. Duke University NC Duke Endowment NC 40,000,000 To endow 32 new faculty positions in Trinity College, Pratt School of Engineering and Nicholas
School of Environment
19. International Development
Research Centre of Canada
Canada William and Flora Hewlett Foundation CA 40,000,000 For general support of Think Tanks Program
20. London School of Hygiene
and Tropical Medicine
England Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 39,795,736 For coordinated research programme to identify how best to optimize delivery and costeffectiveness
of combination drug treatment for malaria in Africa and Asia
21. PATH Vaccine Solutions WA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 38,750,000 For research and development of new influenza vaccines to address pandemic influenza
22. United Nations Foundation DC Turner Global Foundation FL 37,500,000 Unspecified
23. Monterey Bay Aquarium CA David and Lucile Packard Foundation CA 36,816,000 For operations, research projects and ordinary capital support
Research Institute
24. Emory University GA Robert W. Woodruff Foundation GA 35,000,003 For redevelopment of outpatient facilities at Woodruff Health Sciences Center
25. PATH WA Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 34,690,601 To shape future of supply and delivery systems for vaccines and other health products in low- and
middle-income countries
26. International Labour Organization Switzerland Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 34,221,598 To improve and expand insurance for poor through Microinsurance Innovation Facility
27. International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Center
Mexico Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 33,301,753 To decrease hunger and increase food and income security of resource-poor farm families in
sub-Saharan Africa (with focus on Angola)
28. Stanford University CA David and Lucile Packard Foundation CA 32,500,000 For three components of Initiative on Environment and Sustainability: Leopold Leadership
Program, Environment and Energy building, and Center for Ocean Solutions
29. Tufts University MA Jonathan M. Tisch Foundation NY 32,112,445 Unspecified
30. Liverpool School of
Tropical Medicine
England Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation WA 30,467,755 To evaluate new and existing drug-based interventions and vector control measures to improve
control of malaria in pregnancy (MiP) in Africa to save lives of mothers and their infants
Source: The Foundation Center, Foundation Giving Trends, 2009. Based on a sample of 1,339 larger foundations.
Gr a nts by M ajor Su bject Categor i es, 2007
22.7%
Health
22.8%
Education
1.4%
Social Sciences
2.1% Religion
PERCENT OF
GRANT
DOLLARS
14.9% Human Services
10.9% Public Affairs/
Society Benefit 1
10.6%
Arts and Culture
6.8% Environment and Animals
4.5% International Affairs
2.9% Science and Technology
20%
Education
26%
Human
Services
0.9%
Social Sciences
1.8% Science and Technology
PERCENT OF
NUMBER
OF GRANTS
14.3% Arts and Culture
13.1% Health
11.4% Public Affairs/
Society Benefit 1
6.6% Environment and Animals
3.5% Religion
2.4% International Affairs
SOURCE: The Foundation Center, Foundation Giving Trends, 2009. Based on all grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of 1,339 larger foundations. Due to rounding, figures may not add up.
1
Includes civil rights and social action, community improvement and development, philanthropy and voluntarism, and public affairs.
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