# fund (financial)

money for a purpose

- Computed level: L17 (depth in the emergence graph, not abstraction)
- Status: review  ·  Domain: money.economic  ·  Arena: fund

## Emergence
**Emerges from:** [money](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-money.economic), [purpose](https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-purpose.goal)

**Through:** money is for purpose

**Novel properties:**
- designated use
- collective pool

## Examples
- The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation allocated $1.7 billion to fight malaria between 2000 and 2020. *(institutions)*
- The U.S. government's 2009 Troubled Asset Relief Program distributed $426 billion to stabilize financial institutions. *(economics)*
- The James Webb Space Telescope mission consumed $10 billion in funding from NASA, ESA, and CSA over two decades. *(engineering)*

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*Canonical: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fund.financial*  
*Structured data: https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-fund.financial.json*  
*Every definition provably resolves to space, time, energy and pattern.*