Silent Spring Institute 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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Donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 4 80,000 91,250 35,000 35,000 35,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000
Technology 1 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000 35,000
Health and Environment 3 125,000 110,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 80,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000 125,000

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Silent Spring Institute

Donor Total 2016 2015 2014
John Merck Fund (filter this donee) 330,000.00 80,000.00 125,000.00 125,000.00
Knight Foundation (filter this donee) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 330,000.00 80,000.00 125,000.00 125,000.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (4 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 4)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
John Merck Fund80,000.0032016-06Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To assist in the implementation of the updated Boston fire code pertaining to toxic flame retardants, continue research on toxic flame retardant exposures among college students, and disseminate the research findings.
John Merck Fund125,000.0012015-06Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To expand Silent Spring Institute’s higher education network to incorporate chemicals use into their sustainability programs.
John Merck Fund125,000.0012014-06Health and Environmenthttps://www.jmfund.org/program-grants/-- To engage a high-profile and influential sector of the US economyhigher educationin the movement away from toxic chemicals in the built environment.
Knight Foundation35,000.004--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6218-- Grant period: 01/01/2014 - 06/30/2014; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To create prototype Data Experiences, multi-sensory, immersive, and aesthetic interactions that make data tangible, using environmental health indicators. The project will be done in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab.