In addition, grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates ($1.8 million) and Wallace ($1.5 million) foundations, Gates Foundation ($3 million), and Ford Foundation ($750,000) will enable NPR to expand its coverage of education, global health and development, and race, ethnicity, and culture.

Is the NIH funded by Bill Gates?

Making wise funding choices

Prioritizing research projects is a challenge, he noted, with NIH and the Gates Foundation together accounting for about half of all global health research funding.

How is Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded?

Funding. Most of the money for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has come from the Gates' personal wealth, starting with $94 million in Microsoft stock in 1994 to establish the William H. ... In 2006, investor Warren Buffett made a lifetime pledge to the foundation of Berkshire Hathaway stock valued at $31 billion.