Thank you...glad you liked it, tomkat!
For my profile page, I had good material to work with...:)
now $3 billion for The Global Fund:
The Global Fund: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
A key partner of the Global Fund for financing, governance and advocacy
The Gates Foundation has contributed US$2.24 billion to the Global Fund to date, and pledged US$760 million for the Global Fund’s Sixth Replenishment, covering 2020-2022...
https://www.theglobalfund.org/en/private-ngo-partners/resource-mobilization/bill-melinda-gates-foundation/
5 Jan 2017: IHME: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation boosts vital work of the University of Washington’s Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation pledges $279 million for IHME to expand its work, highlighting the UW’s position as global hub for improving population health worldwide...
The $279 million grant is the largest private donation in the university’s history and continues a long tradition of critical investments in the University of Washington by the Gates Foundation, which include grant awards across its academic disciplines such as library science, global health, education, law and others. As of January 25, 2017, the foundation has awarded the University of Washington over 250 grants totaling nearly $1.25 billion...
IHME is now considered the trusted source for the World Bank, the United States Agency for International Development, the National Institutes of Health, the Wellcome Trust, and a range of other national and global organizations...
http://www.healthdata.org/news-release/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-boosts-vital-work-university-washingtons-institute
You surely did.
Your parents, not to mention McCarthy and Chambers, two of my heroes.