What Country Has Donated The Most Money To The Clinton Foundation In The Last 20 Years

The claim: Ukraine was the largest donor to the Clinton Foundation for xv years

While unrelated footage purporting to show the Russian invasion of Ukraine runs rampant online, some social media users have resurfaced an onetime narrative near strange donations to the Clinton Foundation.

"Ukraine largest donor to the Clinton Foundation 1999-2014," reads text in a February. 26 meme on Facebook.

Similar rumors near Ukrainian financial donations to the Clinton Foundation have gained traction on Twitter. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., promoted an iteration of the claim during a Feb. nineteen rally in Texas, according to PolitiFact.

"Fact: Ukraine was the unmarried largest donor to the Clinton Foundation," reads a Feb. 24 tweet that generated more than than 100 likes. Every bit evidence, some users cited a graph purportedly showing the foundation'due south superlative foreign donors.

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But the posts misrepresent a chart from 2015, which ranks individual contributions to the foundation based on nationality. Every bit FactCheck.org reported in 2019, the Clinton Foundation hasn't received donations from the Ukrainian government.

U.s.a. TODAY reached out to the social media users who shared the claim for comment.

Posts misuse report on private donations

The Wall Street Journal published a report in 2015 on private donations over $l,000 made to the Clinton Foundation betwixt 1999 and 2014. The commodity included a chart listing the top foreign donors.

Ukraine tops the listing, only the graph doesn't support the claim in the social media posts.

That'south considering the graph doesn't reflect donations from governments, as the posts assert. The Journal's analysis looked at individual contributions and ranked them "by nationality of donor."

Ukrainians contributed $10 1000000 to the Clinton Foundation – more than any other nationality, according to the report. Most of that money came from Ukrainian businessman and philanthropist Victor Pinchuk.

Pinchuk's foundation, based in Kyiv, donated $8.6 million to the foundation between 2009 and 2013, the Journal reported. He and his wife started contributing to Clinton charities in 2006.

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The article notes that Pinchuk has close government ties, as he served as a fellow member of the Ukrainian Parliament from 1998-2006 and is the son-in-law of one-time Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma. Pinchuk'due south contributions – both to the Clinton Foundation and the Trump Foundation – have come up nether scrutiny and faced criticism, merely they didn't stalk from the Ukrainian government.

Pinchuk also wasn't the largest donor to the Clintons' clemency between 1999-2014.

A 2015 analysis from The Washington Mail plant several donors had given more than $25 million to the Clinton Foundation since its creation. Among them: Canadian mining magnate Frank Giustra'southward foundation, Autonomous supporter Fred Eychaner and a major lottery based in the Netherlands.

The Clinton Foundation reports all contributors on its site. The Ukrainian regime is not listed every bit a donor.

Other governments are, though. Australia, Saudi Arabia and Norway take all donated between $10 million and $25 million through grants, memberships, sponsorships and conference fees.

USA TODAY reached out to the Clinton Foundation for comment.

Our rating: False

Based on our research, we charge per unit False the claim that Ukraine was the largest donor to the Clinton Foundation for fifteen years. While some foreign governments accept contributed to the Clinton Foundation, Ukraine has not.

The merits misrepresents a 2015 report on individual donations made between 1999 and 2014. According to the written report, which lists the Clinton Foundation's top donors by nationality, Ukrainians contributed $10 one thousand thousand during that time period. Most of the coin came from Pinchuk'due south foundation.

Our fact-check sources:

Wall Street Journal, March 19, 2015, Clinton Clemency Tapped Foreign Friends
FactCheck.org, October. 25, 2019, Headlines Spin Ukrainian Donations to Clinton Clemency
Victor Pinchuk Foundation, accessed Feb. 25, Biography of Victor Pinchuk
Forbes, accessed Feb. 25, #1249 Victor Pinchuk
ABC News, Nov. 23, 2016, Trump Foundation Took Donations From Controversial Ukrainian Clinton Donor
The New York Times, Aug 20, 2016, Foundation Ties Bedevil Hillary Clinton'southward Presidential Campaign
Open Secrets, November. 18, 2019, Clinton Foundation cash flow continues to drop years subsequently 2016 election loss
The Washington Post, Feb. eighteen, 2015, Clintons' foundation has raised nigh $two billion - and some primal questions
The Clinton Foundation, accessed Feb. 25, Reports and Financials
The Clinton Foundation, June 30, 2019, Recognizing Our Generous Supporters (archived)

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