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Gavi Alliance

Grandsaconnex, Geneva · EIN 98-0593375. Reported 130 grants totalling $470.3M to 51 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

51organizations funded
$517,564median reported grant
$470.3Mgranted, 2021-2024
85%of grantees funded again the next year
63%of dollars to its largest recipient

Does this grantmaker accept applications?

Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.

Three things in the filing do bear on it:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Gavi Alliance, the IRS classifies it under international affairs rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE Q33) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 51 distinct organizations, with 63% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 85% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $517,564. Half of what it reported fell between $200,000 and $1,665,316; the smallest was $9,688 and the largest $87.7M. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
1 grant
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
13 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
21 grants
$250,000 Or More
90 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
United States Fund for UnicefNew York, NY$294.8M442024
Clinton Health Access Initiative IncBoston, MA$25.0M442024
Jsi Research & Training Institute IncNorwood, MA$23.9M442024
The World Bank (ibrd)Washington, DC$20.6M442024
PathSeattle, WA$12.7M442024
National Foundation for the Ctrs for Disease Contr & Prevention IncAtlanta, GA$12.4M442024
Pan American Sanitary BureauWashington, DC$11.5M442024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$9,933,204442024
VillagereachSeattle, WA$7,576,953442024
Global ImpactWashington, DC$6,000,000112023
Results for Development Institute IncWashington, DC$4,954,846442024
Nexleaf AnalyticsLos Angeles, CA$3,501,087442024
Zenysis Technologies IncSan Francisco, CA$3,409,067442024
Campaign for Tobacco-Free KidsWashington, DC$3,104,782222024
Zipline International IncHalf Moon Bay, CA$2,883,933332024
Gdi-Solutions IncWashington, DC$2,352,978222024
CdcAtlanta, GA$2,316,635442024
Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore, MD$2,187,541332023
Integrate Health IncRaleigh, NC$1,987,218222024
Parsyl IncDenver, CO$1,950,000442024
The Albert B Sabin Vaccine Institute IncWashington, DC$1,549,494332024
Mastercard International IncNew York, NY$1,430,429332023
Trustees of Columbia UniversityNew York, NY$1,206,765332024
Premise Data CorporationSan Francisco, CA$1,197,505332023
U S Assoc for Intl MigrationWashington, DC$1,015,862222024
Kati Collective IncVashon, WA$979,188442024
Khushi Baby IncDorado Hills, CA$950,000222024
Research Triangle InstituteDurham, NC$791,914112024
Population Services InternationalWashington, DC$776,054112024
Eleanor Crook FoundationSan Marcos, TX$750,000112024
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$681,462442024
University of WashingtonSeattle, WA$600,000332024
Family Health InternationalDurham, NC$543,005332024
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS FoundationWashington, DC$521,195112024
Karna LLCAtlanta, GA$491,086112022
Kantar LLCLisle, IL$489,812112021
The Difference A2C LLCAtlanta, GA$436,706442024
Analytics Ht IncMiami, FL$424,312112024
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeCambridge, MA$393,018442024
International Organisation for MigrantsNew York, NY$349,000112021
Pharos Global Health Advisors LtdNewton, MA$306,642112024
Bull City Learning IncDurham, NC$285,356112022
Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA$272,299332024
George Washington UniversityAshburn, VA$197,020222024
John Snow IncBoston, MA$168,307112021
The Pennsylvania State UniversityUniversity Park, PA$138,913222024
Picma Africa IncSolon, OH$76,140112024
The Aspen Institute IncWashington, DC$72,536112021
Fraym IncArlington, VA$67,500112021
Dimagi IncCambridge, MA$55,000112023
Trustees of Boston UniversityBoston, MA$30,000112024

34 of 51 (67%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 51 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

International Affairs
7 orgs
Education
7 orgs
Health Care
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Diseases & Disorders
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202128$93.6M$606,978
202229$100.3M$497,690
202334$125.3M$506,985
202439$151.2M$521,195

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.

Where its money goes

63% of its giving went to organizations in New York. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

New York
$297.7M
District of Columbia
$52.5M
Massachusetts
$50.1M
Washington
$21.8M
Georgia
$15.7M
Maryland
$12.1M
California
$11.9M
North Carolina
$3.6M

Down to the city

New York, NY
$297.7M
Washington, DC
$52.5M
Boston, MA
$25.2M
Norwood, MA
$23.9M
Seattle, WA
$20.8M
Atlanta, GA
$15.7M

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Funders that support the same organizations

These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Gates Foundation16 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund15 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsJsi Research & Training Institute Inc11 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust11 shared recipientsFamily Health International Inc10 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $517,564 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in New York.
  4. Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Gavi Alliance's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 31 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 8 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.

Address of record on the latest return: Chemin Du Pommier 40, Grandsaconnex, GENEVA, 1218.

EIN 98-0593375 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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