Niskanen Center 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 2022. 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.

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

Basic donee information

Item	Value
Country
Wikipedia page	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niskanen_Center

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	9	360,000	390,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	250,000	300,000	360,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	1,000,000	1,000,000
Environmentalism	3	200,000	233,333	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	200,000	300,000	300,000	300,000	300,000
Politics	4	400,000	512,500	250,000	250,000	250,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	1,000,000	1,000,000	1,000,000
Migration policy	2	360,000	380,000	360,000	360,000	360,000	360,000	360,000	360,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	400,000	400,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Niskanen Center

Donor	Total	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015
Hewlett Foundation (filter this donee)	2,750,000.00	1,000,000.00	400,000.00	750,000.00	600,000.00	0.00
Open Philanthropy (filter this donee)	760,000.00	0.00	400,000.00	0.00	0.00	360,000.00
Total	3,510,000.00	1,000,000.00	800,000.00	750,000.00	600,000.00	360,000.00

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

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

Donor	Amount (current USD)	Amount rank (out of 9)	Donation date	Cause area	URL	Influencer	Notes
Hewlett Foundation	1,000,000.00	1	2019-01-17	Politics	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-general-operating-support-2/	--	For General Operating Support.
Hewlett Foundation	400,000.00	2	2018-04-06	Politics	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-general-operating-support-1/	--	For General Operating Support.
Open Philanthropy	400,000.00	2	2018-01	Migration policy/politics	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/niskanen-immigration-2018	Alexander Berger	Grant over two years to continue to support work on immigration policy. Grant is a renewal of https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/niskanen-immigration and is in recognition of the Niskanen Center growing its immigration program to $1 million/year, while also keeping in mind the expectation of no significant positive movement on immigration at the federal level. Announced: 2018-01-30.
Hewlett Foundation	300,000.00	6	2017-11-07	Environmentalism	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-climate-policy-and-litigation-program/	--	For Climate Policy And Litigation Program.
Hewlett Foundation	250,000.00	7	2017-03-22	Politics	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-general-operating-support-0/	--	For General Operating Support.
Hewlett Foundation	200,000.00	8	2017-03-11	Environmentalism	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-the-energy-and-climate-program-0/	--	For The Energy And Climate Program.
Hewlett Foundation	200,000.00	8	2016-05-18	Environmentalism	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-the-energy-and-climate-program/	--	For The Energy And Climate Program.
Hewlett Foundation	400,000.00	2	2016-03-21	Politics	https://hewlett.org/grants/niskanen-center-for-general-operating-support/	--	For General Operating Support.
Open Philanthropy	360,000.00	5	2015-10	Migration policy/politics	https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/us-policy/immigration-policy/niskanen-immigration	--	Grantee is a libertarian think tank looking to hire legal counsel. Followup conversation with grantee organization at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/David_Bier_12-14-2015_%28public%29.pdf on 2015-12-14 and again at https://www.openphilanthropy.org/sites/default/files/Niskanen_Center_07-22-16_%28public%29.pdf on 2016-07-22. Announced: 2015-10-29.