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Funds Gates Foundation, a global philanthropy addressing infectious disease, sanitation, health, and financial inclusion.

United States
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Annual funding$8.74B
Programs6
Active grants0
Total grants10
About

The Gates Foundation is a U.S. private foundation and, by its own budget figures, the world's largest private philanthropic organization. Founded in 2000 by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates, it was renamed Gates Foundation in January 2025 after Melinda French Gates's resignation. Its mission is to help every person live a healthy, productive life, and its 2025 budget reached $8.74 billion.

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Programs & grants under this funder
Gates Foundation Direct Discovery Grants

Offers direct discovery support by the Gates Foundation through invitational outreach to selected organizations for strategic projects.

Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations

Offers historical small-scale exploratory grant models while the programme has shifted to broader themed challenge solicitations.

Grand Challenges

Funds global teams developing diagnostic devices and screening tools that cost approximately $1 per test or near-zero incremental cost per person screened for deployment in low-income countries.

6 grants
Grand Challenges — Ultralow-Cost Diagnostics and Screening for Low-Income Countries
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Grand Challenges — Micronutrient Absorption Barriers in Fortified Foods
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Grand Challenges — Placental and Gut Inflammation Interventions for Fetal Growth
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Grand Challenges — Breakthrough Innovations to Reduce the Cost of Severe Acute Malnutrition Treatment
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Grand Challenges — Cost-Reducing Innovations for Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food
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Grand Challenges Africa — Accelerating Innovation in Vaginal Formulations for Women's Health
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Gates Foundation Grand Challenges

Offers competitive calls by the Gates Foundation on major global health and development challenges for worldwide applicants.

2 grants
Gates Foundation Grand Challenges — Portfolio
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Estimating the Global Burden of Diarrheal Diseases
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Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows

Funds research teams building low-cost, simplified pathogen-sequencing workflows that bring the cost of sequencing a sample down to about US$1-10 for use in low- and middle-income countries.

1 grant
Innovations in Low-Cost and Simplified Pathogen Sequencing Workflows
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Multiplex Platforms to Assess Indicators of Micronutrient Status, Inflammation and Infectious Disease

Funds teams building an improved multiplex lab test that measures micronutrient, inflammation and infectious-disease biomarkers together at low cost for population surveillance in low- and middle-income countries.

1 grant
Multiplex Platforms to Assess Indicators of Micronutrient Status, Inflammation and Infectious Disease
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