Jacobs Foundation
The Jacobs Foundation is a charitable foundation based in Switzerland, established in 1989 by Klaus J. Jacobs and his family.
The Jacobs Foundation is one of the world’s leading foundations that facilitates innovation for children and youth. The foundation wants to co-create evidence-based ideas for learning, support schools in offering quality education and sharing best practices, and transform education systems worldwide. The Jacobs Foundation aims to provide children and youth with effective knowledge, skills, tools and equitable opportunities to reach their full learning potential and thrive together.
In 2021, the Jacobs Foundation provided USD 3.7 million to the multilateral system, representing 9.6% of its development finance, all of which was earmarked for specific countries, regions, themes or purposes.
All of this finance was provided to the United Nations (UN) system, notably UNICEF.
See the section on geographic and thematic focus for the geographical and thematic breakdown of bilateral allocations earmarked through the multilateral development system.
In 2021, the Jacobs Foundation channelled its contributions mostly through non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and civil society (USD 29.7 million), universities, colleges or other teaching institutions, research institutes or think-tanks (USD 4.2 million) and multilateral organisations (USD 3.7 million).
In 2021, the Jacobs Foundation’s development finance was primarily focused on Africa and the Americas. USD 32.7 million was allocated to Africa and USD 1.3 million to America, accounting respectively for 85.2% and 3.3% of the foundation’s development finance. A sum of USD 4.4 million (11.4%) was unspecified by region in 2021.
In 2021, 73.8% of development finance went to the top 10 recipients. The Jacobs Foundation’s most significant recipients included Côte d’Ivoire (USD 23.9 million), Ghana (USD 2.9 million) and Brazil (USD 0.6 million). Moreover, 26.2% of development finance was not allocated by country.
The Jacobs Foundation allocated the highest share of its development finance (70.4%) to lower middle-income countries in 2021, followed by upper middle-income countries (3.3%) in 2021, noting that USD 10.1 million (26.2%) was unallocated by income group.
Official website: http://www.jacobsfoundation.org/
The methodological notes provide further details on the definitions and statistical methodologies applied, including core and earmarked contributions to multilateral organisations, the Sustainable Development Goal focus of private development finance, channels of delivery, unspecified/unallocated allocations, the gender equality policy marker, and the environment markers.