LYRASIS 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 March 2023. 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.

Table of contents

Basic donee information

ItemValue
Country
Websitehttp://www.lyrasis.org/
Twitter usernamelyrasis
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyrasis

Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 21 600,000 654,296 31,000 50,000 126,210 192,000 486,000 600,000 670,000 750,000 953,900 1,400,000 2,500,000
Scholarly Communications 9 486,000 563,222 31,000 31,000 50,000 90,000 192,000 486,000 670,000 850,000 1,200,000 1,500,000 1,500,000
Arts and Cultural Heritage 5 953,900 1,120,780 50,000 50,000 50,000 700,000 700,000 953,900 953,900 1,400,000 1,400,000 2,500,000 2,500,000
Information and communication technology (ICT) 2 126,210 133,657 126,210 126,210 126,210 126,210 126,210 126,210 141,103 141,103 141,103 141,103 141,103
Digital Technology 2 250,000 500,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 250,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000
Diversity 3 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000 600,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee LYRASIS

Donor Total 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (filter this donee) 12,472,900.00 1,200,000.00 90,000.00 3,381,000.00 100,000.00 700,000.00 1,500,000.00 670,000.00 600,000.00 1,886,000.00 192,000.00 600,000.00 953,900.00 600,000.00
Sloan Foundation (filter this donee) 1,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 750,000.00 0.00 250,000.00 0.00 0.00
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (filter this donee) 267,313.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 126,210.00 141,103.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 13,740,213.00 1,200,000.00 90,000.00 3,381,000.00 100,000.00 700,000.00 1,500,000.00 796,210.00 741,103.00 2,636,000.00 192,000.00 850,000.00 953,900.00 600,000.00

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (21 donations)

Graph of top 10 donors by amount, showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
DonorAmount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 21)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation1,200,000.0042018-09-06Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/1802-05534/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation90,000.00182017-10-18Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/1709-04914/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation2,500,000.0012016-12-08Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/41600641/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation850,000.0062016-06-13Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/21600665/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation31,000.00212016-04-25Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/21600108/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation50,000.00192015-12-14Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/11600106/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation50,000.00192015-10-19Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/41500107/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation700,000.0082014-06-05Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/21400658/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation1,500,000.0022013-12-05Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/41300609/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation126,210.00172012-10-26Information and communication technology (ICT)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the development of public access technology benchmarks that motivate local re-investment in public access technology at public libraries and inspire continuous improvement of those services; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: United states of america (the).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation670,000.0092012-09-13Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/31200637/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation600,000.00102011-06-03Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/21100667/-- Program name: Diversity.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation141,103.00162011-02-25Information and communication technology (ICT)https://iatiregistry.org/publisher/bmgf-- to support the development of public access technology benchmarks that motivate local re-investment in public access technology at public libraries and inspire continuous improvement of those services; Aid type: Project-type interventions. Affected countries: United states of america (the).
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation486,000.00132010-12-09Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/41000627/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation1,400,000.0032010-12-09Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/41000642/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Sloan Foundation750,000.0072010Digital Technology/Universal Access to Knowledgehttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/6777-- Grant investigator: Laurie Gemmill; for continued digitization of member collections and development of a self-sustaining regional scanning center.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation192,000.00152009-09-24Scholarly Communicationshttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/30900712/-- Program name: Scholarly Communications.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation600,000.00102008-12-17Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/40800687/-- Program name: Diversity.
Sloan Foundation250,000.00142008Digital Technology/Universal Access to Knowledgehttps://sloan.org/grant-detail/6782-- Grant investigator: Catherine Wilt; to encourage a regional scanning center in the Mid-Atlantic Region for digitizing library collections under open principles.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation953,900.0052007-06-15Arts and Cultural Heritagehttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/20700684/-- Program name: Arts and Cultural Heritage.
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation600,000.00102006-12-15Diversityhttps://mellon.org/grants/grants-database/grants/lyrasis/40600719/-- Program name: Diversity.