From 1994 to early 2023, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation spent a total of $80.3 billion on over 33,000 grants.
Gender equality is one of the foundation's top divisions. The main areas of focus within the division are breaking down structural barriers, empowering individual women, embedding a gender focus across the foundation, and recently, centering women in COVID-19 recovery.
Overall, the foundation has spent a total of $10.2 billion on 2,000 gender equality grants over the last two decades, which went to organizations based in 62 different countries. These grants cover a multitude of different subtopics, including family planning; maternal, neonatal, and child health, or MNCH; and women and girls’ empowerment; and MNCH discovery and tools.