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172 History of the International Rice Research InstituteFINANCESTo accommodate the additional staff members and to finance the expandedexperimental program and the new construction projects, IRRI's budget hashad to be increased substantially. Furthermore, since the beginning of the oilcrisis in 1973, inflation alone would have raised significantly the cost ofoperating the Institute. Rather than trace, here, the increases over the years,comparisons are made between the budgets of 1972 and 1980 only.IRRI's total budget in 1972 amounted to $4,358,123, of which somewhat lessthan $3 million was spent for core and capital costs, the remainder being usedfor special projects and outreach programs. There were eight principal donorsthat year. In order of the size of contribution, they were USAID, the FordFoundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the United Kingdom, the InternationalDevelopment Research Centre (IDRC), Japan, the Netherlands, and theU.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH).In marked contrast to IRRI's income in 1972, the budget by 1980 had morethan quadrupled, totaling $19,263,203. Of this amount, more than $13 millionwas spent for restricted and unrestricted core budget, the remaining $6 millionbeing used for special projects and outreach programs.The number of major (giving more than $100,000) donors in 1980 was 20. Itis interesting that, with the exception of the Netherlands, the 1980 list includedthe same donors as in 1972 (see table). However, both the amounts contributedand their proportionate share of the total budget changed considerably.As is evident, the conspicuous changes between 1972 and 1980 were themarked decrease in the contributions from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundationsand the substantially increased contributions from most of the otherA comparison of source and amount of contributions to IRRI, 1972 and 1980.SourceUnited StatesAgency forInternationalDevelopmentFord FoundationRockefellerFoundationUnited KingdomInternationalDevelopmentResearch CentreJapanNetherlandsNational Institutesof HealthAll othersTotal1972 1980Amount Percent of Amount Percent of(US.$) total budget (US.$) total budget1,532,237 35.1 6,929,990 36.0113,694 2.6 2,800,00090,950 2.1– a 14.5–1,229,260 28.2315,565 1.6810,745 18.6253,429 1.3360,207 8.3 1,148,250 6.0150,407 3.5412,907 2.149,803 1.113,729 0.120,8204,358,1230.5100.07,389,33319,273,20338.4100.0a The Netherlands supported IRRI generously with a 5.5-year grant of nearly $1 million in 1975, which happenedto expire in 1980. The funds were used for the development of regional rice research stations in Indonesia.