University of Maryland, College Park 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.

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Donee donation amounts by donor and year
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Basic donee information

Item	Value
Country
Facebook page	UnivofMaryland
Website	http://www.umd.edu/
Twitter username	UofMaryland
Wikipedia page	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Maryland,_College_Park
Instagram username	univofmaryland

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	14	300,000	499,977	19,858	20,000	43,000	50,000	198,975	300,000	400,000	465,272	800,000	1,693,316	2,140,000
Digital Technology	2	19,858	34,929	19,858	19,858	19,858	19,858	19,858	19,858	50,000	50,000	50,000	50,000	50,000
Economics	4	323,115	625,426	20,000	20,000	20,000	323,115	323,115	323,115	465,272	465,272	1,693,316	1,693,316	1,693,316
Public Understanding	2	43,000	44,750	43,000	43,000	43,000	43,000	43,000	43,000	46,500	46,500	46,500	46,500	46,500
FIXME	5	400,000	767,795	198,975	198,975	198,975	300,000	300,000	400,000	400,000	800,000	800,000	2,140,000	2,140,000
Working Longer	1	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637	499,637

Donation amounts by donor and year for donee University of Maryland, College Park

Donor	Total	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2011	2010	2009	1987	1984
Sloan Foundation (filter this donee)	3,160,698.00	499,637.00	89,500.00	1,743,316.00	0.00	19,858.00	465,272.00	20,000.00	323,115.00	0.00	0.00
Ford Foundation (filter this donee)	2,338,975.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	2,140,000.00	0.00	0.00	198,975.00	0.00	0.00	0.00
MacArthur Foundation (filter this donee)	1,500,000.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	1,200,000.00	300,000.00
Total	6,999,673.00	499,637.00	89,500.00	1,743,316.00	2,140,000.00	19,858.00	465,272.00	218,975.00	323,115.00	1,200,000.00	300,000.00

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (14 donations)

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

Donor	Amount (current USD)	Amount rank (out of 14)	Donation date	Cause area	URL	Influencer	Notes
Sloan Foundation	499,637.00	4	2018	Working Longer/	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8488	--	Grant investigator: Katharine Abraham; to inform the design of questions to learn about alternative work arrangements among the population age 50 plus and provide new evidence on the role of these arrangements in older adults’ work lives.
Sloan Foundation	46,500.00	11	2017	Public Understanding/Books	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8272	--	Grant investigator: Jason Farman; support for Jason Farman’s Waiting for Word: How Message Delays Have Shaped History, Love, Technology, and Everything We Know, a book about technologies of communication, to be published by Yale University Press in late 2018/early 2019.
Sloan Foundation	43,000.00	12	2017	Public Understanding/Books	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8097	--	Grant investigator: Jeffrey Bub; to support the research and writing of a graphic non-fiction book on space-time, relativity, and gravity to be published by Princeton University Press.
Sloan Foundation	50,000.00	10	2016	Digital Technology/Scholarly Communication	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8023	--	Grant investigator: Philip Cohen; to support development and outreach activities of the SocArXiv preprint server.
Sloan Foundation	1,693,316.00	2	2016	Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/8059	--	Grant investigator: John Haltiwanger; initiative: Empirical Economic Research Enablers (EERE); to demonstrate how to estimate standard economic indicators using administrative data about business transactions.
Ford Foundation	2,140,000.00	1	2015-12-01	FIXME	http://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all	--	Tie-off support for the DeVos Institute of Arts Management to provide in-depth consulting services for an exit program for participants in the Supporting Diverse Arts Spaces initiative. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@9177414###Asian or Asian American@@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority@@@9177888###Black or African American@@@9177891###Latin American@@@9177892###Native American, American Indian, or Alaska Native; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
Sloan Foundation	19,858.00	14	2014	Digital Technology/Data & Computational Research	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6625	--	Grant investigator: Neil Fraistat; to partially support a meeting to share best practices and opportunities in scholarly crowdsourcing across the sciences and humanities.
Sloan Foundation	465,272.00	5	2011	Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6879	--	Grant investigator: Benjamin Bederson; to compile, study, and openly distribute a nationally standardized database of government health inspectors' restaurant ratings.
Ford Foundation	198,975.00	9	2010-02-01	FIXME	http://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all	--	To conduct action research in collaboration with Peking University on ways to improve the success of disadvantaged students attending non-government universities in less developed regions of China. Affected regions: 223###China, People's Republic of###100; @@@; China; affected countries: FIXME.
Sloan Foundation	20,000.00	13	2010	Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6927	--	Grant investigator: Clifford Rossi; to hold a workshop on "Frameworks for Systemic Risk Monitoring".
Sloan Foundation	323,115.00	7	2009	Economics/Economic Institutions, Behavior, & Performance	https://sloan.org/grant-detail/6954	--	Grant investigator: Carmen Reinhart; to create and launch an International Financial Crisis Database that provides open access information about many countries, many centuries, and many variables.
MacArthur Foundation	400,000.00	6	1987	FIXME	https://www.macfound.org/grants/	--	To support the Nuclear History Project, a multinational project to record and analyze the impact of the nuclear age on national and international policies (over two years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Maryland; affected cities: College Park.
MacArthur Foundation	800,000.00	3	1987	FIXME	https://www.macfound.org/grants/	--	To support the Center for International Security Studies, for institutional fellowships in peace and security studies and related research and support activities. Affected countries: United States; affected states: Maryland; affected cities: College Park.
MacArthur Foundation	300,000.00	8	1984	FIXME	https://www.macfound.org/grants/	--	To reinforce and promote effective and sustained collaboration among researchers from different fields on problems of international security, and for graduate student support (over three years). Affected countries: United States; affected states: Maryland; affected cities: College Park.