The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is a U.S.-based foundation established in 2000. Since 2006, the foundation also benefits from Warren Buffett’s support. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest private foundation in the world, works with grantees and partner organisations across the globe to address critical health and development priorities – from infectious disease to agricultural development and financial services – to benefit the world’s poorest people.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is guided by the belief that every life has equal value. It works to help all people lead healthy, productive lives. In developing countries, the foundation focuses on improving people’s health and giving them a chance to lift themselves out of hunger and extreme poverty. Its approach to grantmaking emphasises collaboration, innovation, risk-taking and results. The foundation has six divisions: global health, global development, gender equality, global growth and opportunities, global policy and advocacy, and the U.S. Program. This analysis only concerns activities administered by the global divisions.