Better Government Association donations received

This is an online portal with information on donations that were announced publicly (or have been shared with permission) that were of interest to Vipul Naik. The git repository with the code for this portal, as well as all the underlying data, is available on GitHub. All payment amounts are in current United States dollars (USD). The repository of donations is being seeded with an initial collation by Issa Rice as well as continued contributions from him (see his commits and the contract work page listing all financially compensated contributions to the site) but all responsibility for errors and inaccuracies belongs to Vipul Naik. Current data is preliminary and has not been completely vetted and normalized; if sharing a link to this site or any page on this site, please include the caveat that the data is preliminary (if you want to share without including caveats, please check with Vipul Naik). We expect to have completed the first round of development by the end of July 2024. See the about page for more details. Also of interest: pageview data on analytics.vipulnaik.com, tutorial in README, request for feedback to EA Forum.

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Basic donee information

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Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 9 105,000 299,578 19,702 19,702 20,000 20,000 31,500 105,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
4 20,000 22,801 19,702 19,702 19,702 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 20,000 31,500 31,500 31,500
FIXME 5 500,000 521,000 105,000 105,000 105,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Better Government Association

Donor Total 2009 2008 2002 2000 1988 1982 1981 1980 1979
MacArthur Foundation (filter this donee) 2,605,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 105,000.00 1,000,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00
Nathan Cummings Foundation (filter this donee) 71,202.00 31,500.00 19,702.00 20,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
John M. Olin Foundation (filter this donee) 20,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 20,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 2,696,202.00 31,500.00 19,702.00 20,000.00 20,000.00 105,000.00 1,000,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00 500,000.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (9 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 9)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Nathan Cummings Foundation31,500.0062009--http://www.nathancummings.org/sites/default/files/financials123109.pdf--
Nathan Cummings Foundation19,702.0092008--http://www.nathancummings.org/sites/default/files/2008_audited_financials.pdf--
Nathan Cummings Foundation20,000.0072002--http://www.nathancummings.org/sites/default/files/2002_audited_financials.pdf--
John M. Olin Foundation20,000.0072000--http://conservativetransparency.org/donor/john-m-olin-foundation/--
MacArthur Foundation105,000.0051988FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- In support of general operations (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation1,000,000.0011982FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support independent studies and investigations regarding waste in government expenditures and service-delivery programs at the federal, state, and local levels (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation500,000.0021981FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support independent studies and investigations regarding waste in government expenditures and service-delivery programs at the federal, state and local levels (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation500,000.0021980FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support independent studies and investigations regarding waste in government expenditures and service-delivery programs at the federal, state, and local levels (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.
MacArthur Foundation500,000.0021979FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support independent studies and investigations regarding waste in government expenditures and service-delivery programs at the federal, state, and local levels (over five years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Illinois; affected cities: Chicago.