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Private Bank Overview
STRUCTURAL COMPARISON OF FORD AND GATES FOUNDATIONS
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Gates Foundation
Private operating foundation
Gates Foundation
Governance
Trustees and Co-Chairs
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Bill Gates, trustee and co•chair
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Melinda Gates, trustee and co-chair
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Warren Buffett, trustee
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Bill Gates Sr., co-chair
Grant-making Areas of Focus
Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation
(foundation, but
organized as trust)
Grant-making and
programmatic work
Bill and Melinda
Gates Foundation
Trust
(trust)
Investments
Management Committee, which oversees all of the foundation's efforts:
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Jeff Raikes, CEO
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Sylvia Burwell, President of Global Development Program
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Allan Golston, President of U.S. Program
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Tachi Yamada, President of Global Health Program
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Martha Choe, Chief Administrative Officer of Foundation Operations
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Connie Collingsworth, General Counsel and Secretary Foundation
Operations
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Richard Henriques, Chief Financial Officer, Foundation Operations
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Kate James, Chief Communications Officer, Foundation Operations
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Geoff Lamb, Managing Director, Public Policy, Foundation Operations
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Franci Phelan, Chief Human Resources Officer, Foundation Operations
Global Development
Program Advisory
Panel
Global Health
Program Advisory
Panel
United States
Program Advisory
Panel
Offers independent assessments of strategies and helps evaluate results
Global
Development
Program
•Agricultural
Development
•Financial services for
the Poor
•Water, Sanitation, and
Hygiene
•Global Libraries
•Special Initiatives
Global Health
Program
• Enteric and
Diarrheal Diseases
• Family Planning
• HIV
• Malaria
• Maternal, Neonatal,
and Child Health
• Neglected and
Other Infectious
Diseases
• Nutrition
• Pneumonia
• Polio
• Tobacco
• Tuberculosis
• Vaccines
United States
Program
• Education
• U.S. Libraries
• Pacific Northwest
Trustees
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Bill and Melinda Gates are the only
trustees
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Team of outside investment managers
Note: Not to exist in perpetuity. Goal is to
spend all of its resources within 50 years after
Bill and Melinda's deaths.
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Ford Foundation
Governance
Grant-making Areas of Focus
Ford Foundation
Private non-operating foundation
Board of Trustees (should be between seven and 20 trustees)
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Majority of trustees must be independent
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Set policy
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Currently 12 trustees:
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Irene Inouye, Chair of the Board
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Yolanda Kakabadse
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Luis Ubinas, President
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Robert Kaplan
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Kofi Appenteng
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Thurgood Marshall Jr.
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Afsaneh Beschloss
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N.R. Narayana Murthy
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Juliet Garcia
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Peter A. Nadosy
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J. Clifford Hudson
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Cecile Richards
Audit
Membership
Committee
Committee
Executive
Investment
All independent
All independent
Committee
Committee
Management
and Governance
Committee
Program
Committee
Proxy
Committee
President and senior staff
Board has delegated authority for
approval of grant-making and operations
to president and senior staff
U.S. Program
Africa Program
Middle East
di
Asia Prog
Latin America
Program
Officer
Officer
Program Officer
Officer
Officer
Explore opportunities to pursue the foundation's goals, formulatestrategies and ic.ownii
proposals for funding.
Eight Issue Areas
1. Democratic and accountable government
2. Economic fairness
3. Educational opportunity and scholarship
4. Freedom of expression
5. Human rights
6. Sexuality and reproductive health and rights
7. Social justice philanthropy
8. Sustainable development
e.g. Financial products like weather-based crop
insurance; native, indigenous, and minority
Note: To exist in perpetuity.
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Gates Foundation
Overview
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Largest "transparently" operated private operating foundation in the world
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Formed as the William H. Gates Foundation with an initial stock gift of $94 million
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After a merger with the Gates Learning Foundation in 2000, Gates gave an additional $126 million
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In 2006, Warren Buffett pledged to give the foundation approximately 10 million Berkshire Hathaway Class B shares spread over
multiple years through annual contributions, worth approximately $30 billion in 2006
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The primary aims of the foundation are, globally, to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and in America, to expand
educational opportunities and access to information technology
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The foundation is controlled by its three trustees: Bill Gates, Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett
Structural changes
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In October of 2006, the trustees created a two-entity structure: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (foundation) and the Bill &
Melinda Gates Foundation Trust (trust). Both entities are tax-exempt private foundations that are structured as charitable trusts.
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The foundation works to reduce inequities around the world. In the developing world, it focuses on improving health and
alleviating extreme poverty. In the United States, the foundation supports programs related to education. In its local region,
the foundation promotes strategies and programs that help low income families. The foundation is based in Seattle,
Washington, with branch offices in Washington, D.C., New Delhi, India, Beijing, China and London, United Kingdom. Its
Trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren Buffett
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The trust holds the donated investment assets from Bill and Melinda Gates, and receives contributions from Warren Buffett.
The primary role of the trust is to manage the investment assets and transfer proceeds to the foundation as necessary to
achieve the foundation's charitable goals. Its trustees are Bill and Melinda Gates
Statistics
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Number of employees: approximately 874'
Asset trust endowment: $36.4 billion'•z
Total grant commitments since inception: $23.91 billion'
Total 2009 grant payments: $3.0 billion
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Geographic Reach: The foundation supports grantees in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Internationally, it supports work in
more than 100 countries
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2 Endowment includes S1.6 billion from the first installment of the gift from Warren Buffett recorded August 24, 2006, the second
installment of $1.76 billion recorded on July 11, 2007, the third installment of S1.8 billion recorded on July 1, 2008, the fourth
installment of $1.25 billion recorded on July 1, 2009, and the fifth installment of S1.6 billion recorded on July 1, 2010.
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Gates Foundation, continued
Grantmaking areas
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Global Development Program
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Global Health Program
• United States Program
Guiding principles
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1: This is a family foundation driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family.
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2: Philanthropy plays an important but limited role.
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3: Science and technology have great potential to improve lives around the world.
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4: We are funders and shapers—we rely on others to act and implement.
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5: Our focus is clear—and limited—and prioritizes some of the most neglected issues.
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6: We identify a specific point of intervention and apply our efforts against a theory of change.
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7: We take risks, make big bets, and move with urgency. We are in it for the long haul.
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8: We advocate—vigorously but responsibly—in our areas of focus.
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9: We must be humble and mindful in our actions and words. We seek and heed the counsel of outside voices.
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10: We treat our grantees as valued partners, and we treat the ultimate beneficiaries of our work with respect.
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11: Delivering results with the resources we have been given is of the utmost importance—and we seek and share information about
those results.
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12: We demand ethical behavior of ourselves.
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13: We treat each other as valued colleagues.
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14: Meeting our mission—to increase opportunity and equity for those most in need—requires great stewardship of the money we
have available.
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15: We leave room for growth and change.
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Ford Foundation
Overview
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An independent, nonprofit, nongovernmental organization with its own board that is entirely separate from the Ford Motor
Company. The trustees of the foundation set policy and delegate authority to the president and senior staff for the foundation's
grant making and operations. Program officers in the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America explore
opportunities to pursue the foundation's goals, formulate strategies and recommend proposals for funding.
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Headquartered in New York City, makes grants in all 50 states and, through 10 regional offices around the world, support programs
in more than 50 countries.
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The Ford Foundation was originally incorporated on January 13, 1936 under the provisions of Act No. 327 of the Public Acts of 1931,
known as the Michigan General Corporation Act.
• FMV of all assets 10,373,847,207 (from 2009 990-PF)
Structural changes
• Unlike many other foundations that overhaul their operations after the crisis, Ford did not hire an outside consultant to run the
process, but instead relied on internal staff members and on the new president, Luis Ubinas, and his background as a consultant.
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Ubinas led an internal examination of Ford's management structure. The goal of the examination was to ensure that the
Foundation's resources were aligned in the most effective way to carry out the Foundation's mission.
• Foundation staff members have been figuring how best to adopt structural revisions that encourage greater collaboration.
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The overhaul brought into focus to what Ford calls "lines of work," which are individual initiatives managed by individual program
officers that have at times numbered more than 200, by condensing them into 35 new lines of work handled by groups of program
officers around the world. Those teams report to a director with responsibility for several of those 35 areas.
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Thus, a single line of work devoted to advancing and supporting Native American arts and culture has been melded into a
new, broader line of work supporting and promoting native, indigenous and minority contemporary artists.
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Similarly, a line of work dedicated to expanding microfinance, which Ford pioneered, will morph into a broader effort to
develop financial products like weather-based crop insurance and leasing of production equipment.
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Ford also will put dollar figures on each of the eight issue areas, which will address longstanding criticism of the foundation's
devotion to small grants.
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Last year, Ford's assets fell 30 percent to 49.5 billion, yet it remains the country's second-largest foundation after the Gates
Foundation. It has said it will increase its payout as a percentage of its assets this year and next.
Ankles of Incorporation
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The corporation is organized on a non-stock basis. The amount of assets which the corporation possesses is: Real property, NONE;
personal property, TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS cash. The corporation is to be financed under the following general plan: By
contributions to it of funds and property absolutely or in trust for its purposes as herein stated and for no other purpose. This
corporation is organized on a directorship (trusteeship) basis.
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Has a perpetual term.
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Ford Foundation, continued
Articles of Incorporation, continued
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The number of Trustees of this corporation may be fixed from time to time by the trustees. Trustees may be elected at any meeting of
Trustees by vote of a majority of the Trustees.
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All of the property of this corporation and accumulations thereof shall be held and administered to effectuate its purposes and to serve
the general welfare of the people. Upon the dissolution of the Foundation, the Board of Trustees will, after paying or making provision
for the payment of all the liabilities of the Foundation, dispose of all the assets of the Foundation exclusively for the purposes of the
Foundation in such manner, or to such organization or organizations organized and operated exclusively for scientific, educational or
charitable purposes as shall at the time qualify as an exempt organization or organizations under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1954 as amended (or the corresponding provision of any subsequent federal tax laws), as the Trustees of the Foundation shall
determine.
Bylaws
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Should have between seven and 20 trustees.
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Committees: Audit committee, executive committee, investment committee, management and governance committee, membership
committee, program committee, proxy committee
Investments
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The Foundation's investment decisions have been delegated by the Board to the President and to senior investment staff. Accordingly, the
Board as a matter of practice does not make specific investment decisions.
Grant-making
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Potential grants are subject to pre-grant review, legal review, compliance with U.S. Anti-terrorism financing rules, a countersigned grant
letter, one or more site visits, a requirement that grantees submit periodic financial and narrative reports, and a new and expanded
worldwide program of grantee audits.
Annual report 2009
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The board of trustees approves program and operational budgets on a two-year basis. The size of the two-year budget takes into account
three considerations: the need to satisfy the U.S. federal payout requirement (the obligation to disburse annually about 5 percent of the
average value of the investment portfolio); the objective of preserving the value of the endowment for long-term charitable funding; and
program needs and opportunities.
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The foundation made the strategic decision to raise our payout rate in 2009 to meet all pre-existing commitments and provide grantees
with added support in a time of severe economic crisis.
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The foundation does not receive outside contributions to its endowment. Their policy has been to try to preserve the real (inflation-
adjusted) value of the foundation's endowment so as to maintain the real value of its program spending.
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The portfolio's asset allocation changed substantially over the course of last year, as they took advantage of improved market valuations
to reduce public equity exposure and increase exposure to inflation-linked bonds, short-term Treasury securities, and opportunistic
investments in real assets and credit. The foundation continued to maintain a highly liquid portfolio, providing it with the ability both to
meet ongoing spending needs and to pursue additional investment opportunities arising from the current environment.
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