This report was authorised for publication by Ragnheiður Elín Árnadóttir, Director of the OECD Development Centre and was prepared by the OECD Centre on Philanthropy under the supervision and general guidance of Bathylle Missika, Head of the Inclusive Development and Partnership Division and Priscilla Boiardi, Team Lead of the OECD Network of Foundations Working for Development (netFWD) and Centre on Philanthropy at the OECD Development Centre. It was prepared by Tommaso Larghetti and Blanche Monjour, Junior Policy Analysts for the OECD Centre on Philanthropy, and Vaibhav Jain. The data collection was supported by Alina Winter, Policy Analyst for the OECD Centre on Philanthropy.
Thanks go to Dominique Blaquier, Juan Casado Asensio, Elena Chiarini, Tea Cimini, Carley Clontz, Cyprien Fabre, Camillo Gamba, Valérie Gavaux, Giorgio Gualberti, Tomas Hos, Gregory de Paepe, Sarah Spencer Bernard and Sandie Xiu from the OECD Development Co-operation Directorate for their inputs. Ogulcan Ertunc from the Development Co-operation Directorate developed a machine learning tool to classify project descriptions to sectors and SDG targets.
We also thank Laura Abadia from the OECD Education Directorate, Tara Mock and Esme Stout from OECD netFWD and Centre on Philanthropy for their inputs.
Henri-Bernard Solignac-Lecomte, Delphine Grandrieux, Elizabeth Nash, Rebecca Appel and Rai Santana from the Development Communications team supported the design and provided editorial contributions.
We also wish to express our sincere thanks to Dana Al-Anzy (Education Above All Foundation), Sara Costa Pedreira and Patricia Kunrath (Group of Institutes, Foundations, and Enterprises), Catalina Herrera Jaramillo and Manuela Jiménez López (Latimpacto), Mosun Layode and Yinka Shittu (African Philanthropy Forum), Alexis Lefevre (French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs), Gopika Mahapatra and Sangeetha Watson (Asian Venture Philanthropy Network), Matilda Maseno (Tangaza University), Ami Misra, Neera Nundy and Parnasha Banerjee (Dasra), Poonam Muttreja (Population Foundation), Wadi Nagi (Arab Foundations Forum) for facilitating the engagement with foundations from Africa, Europe, South-East Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. We would also like to express our sincere appreciation to the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation support and non-financial contribution throughout the project.
The report received financial support from the Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Al Qasimi Foundation, Lemann Foundation, Education Above All Foundation and Fondation Chanel.
Finally, we wish to thank all foundations that took part in the survey for their co-operation and invaluable assistance in obtaining the data that allowed us to develop this report.