Greater Greater Washington donations received

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Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee Greater Greater Washington in our system.

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 2 250,000 275,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000
Land use reform 2 250,000 275,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000 300,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Greater Greater Washington

Donor Total 2019 2017
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee) 550,000.00 300,000.00 250,000.00
Total 550,000.00 300,000.00 250,000.00

Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (2 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 2)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Open Philanthropy300,000.0012019-08Land use reformhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/greater-greater-washington-housing-and-land-use-reform-2019Alexander Berger Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant "to support its work on housing affordability and land use reform. Greater Greater Washington is a news and advocacy organization that focuses on housing, transportation, and other local policy issues in the greater Washington, D.C. metro area."

Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): No explicit reason is given for the amount, but it is similar to the previous amount of $250,000; the difference in the amount is approximately proportional to the difference in timeframe (2 years versus 2.5 years).

Donor reason for donating at this time (rather than earlier or later): The grant is made around the end of the timeframe of the previous two-year grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/greater-greater-washington-housing-and-land-use-reform-2017 (2017-06).
Intended funding timeframe in months: 30

Other notes: Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
Open Philanthropy250,000.0022017-06Land use reformhttps://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/greater-greater-washington-housing-and-land-use-reform-2017Washington, D.C. Donation process: The grant is a result of the grant renewal request https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Greater_Greater_Washington/Greater_Greater_Washington_Grant_Renewal_Request_April_2017.pdf of a previous grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/smart-growth-america-greater-greater-washington-education-project to Smart Growth America for the Greater Greater Washington Education Project.

Intended use of funds (category): Direct project expenses

Intended use of funds: Grant to support "work on housing affordability and land use reform." The grant renewal request https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Greater_Greater_Washington/Greater_Greater_Washington_Grant_Renewal_Request_April_2017.pdf has more details.

Donor reason for selecting the donee: The grant page says: "we see the coalition it has helped coordinate in support of including more housing in D.C.’s revised Comprehensive Plan as a promising initial step." It links to http://www.dchousingpriorities.org/ (for the coalition) and https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/24/16010720/dc-comprehensive-plan (as a refeerence for the promising nature).

Donor reason for donating that amount (rather than a bigger or smaller amount): The grant renewal request https://www.openphilanthropy.org/files/Grants/Greater_Greater_Washington/Greater_Greater_Washington_Grant_Renewal_Request_April_2017.pdf includes budget projections. The "maintain scenario" has a total two-year budget of $275,000, compared to the actual amount of $250,000.

Donor thoughts on making further donations to the donee: Followup granting is not explicitly discussed, but the grant page says: "We think it is mostly too early to tell whether its work has had any impact on housing construction or affordability" suggesting that more evidence may be brought into play before deciding on a followup grant.

Donor retrospective of the donation: The followup grant https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/land-use-reform/greater-greater-washington-housing-and-land-use-reform-2019 (2019-08) suggests continued satisfaction with the grantee.

Other notes: Intended funding timeframe in months: 24; affected countries: Alexander Berger; affected states: United States; announced: 2017-08-11.