Sunlight Foundation 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 10 500,000 445,732 25,645 25,645 35,000 55,000 60,000 500,000 500,000 565,000 750,000 750,000 1,216,678
Population 5 500,000 505,129 25,645 25,645 25,645 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 750,000 750,000 750,000
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
FIXME 1 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000 55,000
Special Projects 1 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000 60,000
Technology, Journalism 2 565,000 890,839 565,000 565,000 565,000 565,000 565,000 565,000 1,216,678 1,216,678 1,216,678 1,216,678 1,216,678

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee Sunlight Foundation

Donor Total 2015 2013 2012 2011
Hewlett Foundation (filter this donee) 2,585,645.00 1,000,000.00 25,645.00 1,500,000.00 60,000.00
MacArthur Foundation (filter this donee) 55,000.00 0.00 0.00 55,000.00 0.00
Knight Foundation (filter this donee) 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Total 2,640,645.00 1,000,000.00 25,645.00 1,555,000.00 60,000.00

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (10 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 10)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
Hewlett Foundation500,000.0052015-03-16Populationhttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-continued-consolidation-of-an-international-program-to-promote-government-transparency/-- For Continued Consolidation Of An International Program To Promote Government Transparency.
Hewlett Foundation500,000.0052015-03-16Populationhttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-continued-consolidation-of-an-international-program-to-promote-government-transparency/-- For Continued Consolidation Of An International Program To Promote Government Transparency.
Hewlett Foundation25,645.00102013-07-22Populationhttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-the-videoconferencing-project/-- For The Videoconferencing Project.
Hewlett Foundation750,000.0022012-03-19Populationhttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-the-development-of-a-new-international-program-to-promote-government-transparency/-- For The Development Of A New International Program To Promote Government Transparency.
Hewlett Foundation750,000.0022012-03-19Populationhttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-the-development-of-a-new-international-program-to-promote-government-transparency/-- For The Development Of A New International Program To Promote Government Transparency.
MacArthur Foundation55,000.0082012FIXMEhttps://www.macfound.org/grants/-- To support the Bi-Coastal Datafest, a two-day event that will bring journalists, data analysts, and coders together and give them the opportunity to examine and compare campaign finance, lobbying, and government transparency data. Affected countries: United States; affected cities: Washington, D.C..
Hewlett Foundation60,000.0072011-11-14Special Projectshttps://hewlett.org/grants/sunlight-foundation-for-development-of-open-source-software-that-reveals-the-patterns-of-influence-behind-public-comments/-- For Development Of Open-source Software That Reveals The Patterns Of Influence Behind Public Comments.
Knight Foundation35,000.009--Technologyhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/6853-- Grant period: 07/15/2015 - 01/15/2016; part of the challenge: Knight Prototype Fund: Arts and Technology; goal: To improve foreign.influenceexplorer.com, a Sunlight Foundation tool that uses Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) data to surface interesting connections between foreign clients and their U.S. agents, helping journalists write stories about countries influencing US policies.
Knight Foundation1,216,678.001--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4967-- Grant period: 10/01/2010 - 10/31/2012; goal: To create a suite of National Data Apps - platforms and tools for delivering federal data to the public.
Knight Foundation565,000.004--Technology, Journalismhttps://knightfoundation.org/grants/4425-- Grant period: 07/01/2009 - 08/31/2011; goal: To create and launch web tools allowing easily accessible public information on Congress Sunlight Foundation was founded in January 2006 to harness the power of the Internet and new information technologies to enable citizens to learn more about what their elected representatives are doing. Sunlight aims to use the tools of open government to help reduce corruption, improve the conduct of public officials and increase the public’s trust in its democratic institutions. The digital revolution has created the potential for a quantum leap in government openness – but only if we can make its instant information easy to find and use. Sunlight Foundation proposes to create a series of new, easy-to-use web tools to allow journalists and citizens to know not just about earmarks but many other actions of our Congressional representatives. During the next two years, the grantee will develop, market and distribute a series of easy-to-use open-source software programs to provide journalists and citizens “integrated information” on Congress. These tools will provide more information about members of Congress more easily to more web users than ever before. This nonpartisan project can be expected during the midterm election to increase debate of fact-based issues the data reveals: earmarks, campaign […].