Color of Change donations received

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Basic donee information
Donee donation statistics
Donee donation amounts by donor and year
Donee document list
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Basic donee information

Item	Value
Country
Facebook page	colorofchange
Website	http://www.colorofchange.org/
Twitter username	ColorOfChange
Wikipedia page	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_of_Change

Donee donation statistics

Cause area	Count	Median	Mean	Minimum	10th percentile	20th percentile	30th percentile	40th percentile	50th percentile	60th percentile	70th percentile	80th percentile	90th percentile	Maximum
Overall	6	229,100	489,645	0	0	30,000	30,000	229,100	229,100	678,772	1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000
Criminal justice reform	6	229,100	489,645	0	0	30,000	30,000	229,100	229,100	678,772	1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Color of Change

Donor	Total	2018	2017	2016
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee)	2,937,872.00	1,000,000.00	1,030,000.00	907,872.00
Future Justice Fund (filter this donee)	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
Total	2,937,872.00	1,000,000.00	1,030,000.00	907,872.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (1 documents)

Title (URL linked)	Publication date	Author	Publisher	Affected donors	Affected donees	Affected influencers	Document scope	Cause area	Notes
RandomEA comments on Open Thread #41 - Effective Altruism Forum	2018-09-07	Chloe Cockburn	Effective Altruism Forum		Real Justice PAC Color of Change Texas Organizing Project New Virginia Majority Faith in Action People's Action		Evaluator consolidated recommendation list	Criminal justice reform	In an email exchange with an interested donor, Chloe Cockburn suggests Real Justice PAC as the top choice. Since this is a PAC, the donor asks for other options, and the pros and cons of 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) taking tax advantages of the former into account. Cockburn says that 501(c)(4)s have a significant enough fundraising disadvantage that she would recommend donations only to them at the margin. She identifies Color of Change, Texas Organizing Project, New Virginia Majority, Faith in Action, and People's Action as potential recipients. The paraphrased exchange is reproduced in the EA Forum comment with permission

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (6 donations)

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

Donor	Amount (current USD)	Amount rank (out of 6)	Donation date	Cause area	URL	Influencer	Notes
Open Philanthropy	1,000,000.00	1	2018-12	Criminal justice reform/prosecutorial reform	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-criminal-justice-reform-2018	Chloe Cockburn	Grant by the Open Philanthropy Action Fund to support grantee to continue increasing the salience of prosecutor and bail reform at a national level and support local groups to win electoral and prosecutorial accountability campaigns in various jurisdictions. Renews December 2017 grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-criminal-justice-reform-2017. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2019-01-31.
Open Philanthropy	1,000,000.00	1	2017-12	Criminal justice reform/bail reform/prosecutorial reform	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-criminal-justice-reform-2017	Chloe Cockburn	Grant supports work on criminal justice reform, and continues https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-prosecutor-accountability (2016 grant). Grantee works on movement coordination and prosecutor accountability activities, as well as work on bail reform. Grant financed by the Open Philanthropy Action Fund. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2018-02-15.
Open Philanthropy	30,000.00	5	2017-05	Criminal justice reform/bail reform	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-change-criminal-justice-meeting	Chloe Cockburn	Grant to support activities including meeting on bail reform. Discretionary grant decided by program officer Chloe Cockburn. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-05-16.
Open Philanthropy	229,100.00	4	2016-10	Criminal justice reform/prosecutorial reform	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-change-studying-voter-activity-prosecutorial-elections	Chloe Cockburn	Grant to support research on voter behavior in prosecutorial elections. This work is intended to help learn whether criminal justice reform messages are effective in increasing turnout in prosecutorial elections, and whether messages about prosecutorial elections increase overall voter turnout in general election years. Grant made by the Open Philanthropy Action Fund. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2018-04-19.
Open Philanthropy	678,772.00	3	2016-09	Criminal justice reform/prosecutorial reform	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-prosecutor-accountability	Chloe Cockburn	Grant to support prosecutorial reform and accountability work. Grant is intended to consist largely of movement coordination activities for advocates of reform, such as facilitating conversations, hosting convenings, developing strategy, tracking activities, as well as civic education and engagement campaigns related to prosecutorial accountability. An accompanying grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/criminal-justice-reform/color-of-change-education-fund-prosecutor-accountability is made by the Open Philanthropy Action Fund. As explained at https://groups.google.com/a/openphilanthropy.org/forum/#!topic/newly.published/F-AE_gVn6Zg the grant announcement was delayed till the Open Philanthropy Project was completely separate from GiveWell. Affected countries: United States; announced: 2017-12-28.
Future Justice Fund	--	--	2016	Criminal justice reform	https://www.futurejusticefund.org/criminaljustice	Chloe Cockburn	For Prosecutor Accountability Efforts. Affected countries: United States.