The Gates Foundation is a philanthropic organization focused on improving health and expanding opportunity, with partners working across more than 130 countries. Its work addresses global and U.S. challenges through funding, collaboration, research, and programs designed to help solutions reach the people who need them. Core priorities include maternal and child health, nutrition, infectious diseases, agricultural development, and U.S. education. The foundation also works to save the lives of mothers and babies, expand economic opportunity, and end infectious diseases, with initiatives spanning regions such as Africa, China, East Asia, India, and North America.

The organization provides grants and other funding, including support through its committed grants and Strategic Investment Fund. Its website shares information about the foundation’s origins, approach, financials, leadership, careers, and programs, alongside research, stories, reports, and news. Annual letters from foundation leaders reflect on progress, challenges, funding, innovation, and the organization’s evolving priorities. The letters also discuss the foundation’s role and influence in philanthropy and its plans to focus resources where they can have the greatest impact.