This article helps provide funding data to help give context to my annual review of the year in ed-tech

The following organizations are among those which have received grant money from the Gates Foundation in 2016 for education and education technology-related initiatives:

• Edsurge ($600,000)
• MindWires Consulting ($650,000)
• Khan Academy ($10,500,000)
• Summit Public Schools ($2,329,062)
• DonorsChoose.org ($2,500,000)
• State Education Technology (SETDA) ($221,595)
• Teachers College, Columbia University ($4,016,892)
• Technology Access Foundation ($5000)
• National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies ($520,000)
• Tyton Partners ($260,979)
• American Enterprise Institute For Public Policy Research ($1,157,579)
• The Aspen Institute ($5,969,003)
• Third Way Institute ($600,630)
• Educause ($603,750)
• Education Writers Association ($25,000)
• SRI International ($298,745)
• The Washington Monthly ($350,795)
• Zearn Learning ($3,602,377)
• Jefferson Education Accelerator ($187,500)
• New Profit Inc. ($6,011,962)
• Schoolzilla ($985,483)
• Power My Learning ($4,500,000)
• The K–12 OER Collaborative ($2,500,000)
• The 74 Media, Inc. ($26,000)
• EdSource Inc. ($1,362,606)
• NewSchools Venture Fund ($9,141,472)

(My favorite part, of course, is the number of “independent news organizations” that take Gates Foundation money.)

You can search the Gates Foundation’s database of grant recipients on the organization’s website.