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.
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_S._and_James_L._Knight_Foundation |
| Facebook username | knightfdn |
| Website | https://knightfoundation.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://knightfoundation.org/grants |
| Twitter username | knightfdn |
| Page on philosophy informing donations | https://knightfoundation.org/about |
| Grant application process page | https://knightfoundation.org/apply/ |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/knight-foundation |
| 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 | 10 | 150,000 | 146,213 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 148,800 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 155,000 | 173,329 | 185,000 |
| Arts, Technology | 10 | 150,000 | 146,213 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 100,000 | 148,800 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 150,000 | 155,000 | 173,329 | 185,000 |
If you hover over a cell for a given cause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
Note: Cause area classification used here may not match that used by donor for all cases.
| Cause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Technology (filter this donor) | 10 | 10 | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
If you hover over a cell for a given subcause area and year, you will get a tooltip with the number of donees and the number of donations.
For the meaning of “classified” and “unclassified”, see the page clarifying this.
| Subcause area | Number of donations | Number of donees | Total | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arts, Technology | 10 | 10 | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
| Classified total | 10 | 10 | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
| Unclassified total | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 10 | 10 | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
| Donee | Cause area | Metadata | Total | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pérez Art Museum Miami (filter this donor) | 185,000.00 | 185,000.00 | ||
| Akron Art Museum (filter this donor) | 173,329.00 | 173,329.00 | ||
| The Barnes Foundation (filter this donor) | 155,000.00 | 155,000.00 | ||
| Mint Museum of Art (filter this donor) | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | ||
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (filter this donor) | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | ||
| The Detroit Institute of Arts (filter this donor) | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | ||
| Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (filter this donor) | 150,000.00 | 150,000.00 | ||
| Minneapolis Institute of Art (filter this donor) | 148,800.00 | 148,800.00 | ||
| Museum of Arts & Sciences (filter this donor) | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | ||
| Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (filter this donor) | 100,000.00 | 100,000.00 | ||
| Total | -- | -- | 1,462,129.00 | 1,462,129.00 |
Skipping spending graph as there is at most one year’s worth of donations.
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Graph of top 10 donees (for donations with known year of donation) by amount, showing the timeframe of donations
| Donee | Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 10) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mint Museum of Art (Earmark: Interactive Staircase) | 150,000.00 | 4 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7948 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 08/15/2018; goal: To develop the Interactive Staircase at the Mint Museum Uptown—an architectural installation at the entrance to the building that will utilize technology to increase visitation and enhance the visitor experience. | |
| Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Earmark: Coyote Treasure Hunt) | 150,000.00 | 4 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7952 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/0218; goal: To build on the Museum of Contemporary Art’s visual description software, Coyote, to include a digital scavenger hunt that will encourage museum visitors to locate artworks based on texts. | |
| Museum of Arts & Sciences (Earmark: The Macon Fulldome Film Festival) | 100,000.00 | 9 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7953 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To launch the FullDome Festival in partnership with the Macon Film Festival at The Museum of Arts and Sciences (MAS)—an effort to introduce filmmakers to the technological possibilities of the planetarium and present new artistic works in the fulldome medium. | |
| Minneapolis Institute of Art (Earmark: Open Source Storytelling for Museums) | 148,800.00 | 8 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7947 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To expand and improve the digital storytelling platform Griot, of The Minneapolis Institute of Art — an open sourced software that allows users to explore works of art in the collection on any device. | |
| The Detroit Institute of Arts (Earmark: The Lumin Experience) | 150,000.00 | 4 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7945 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To support the Detroit Institute of the Art’s launch of Lumin—a mobile tour of the art museum that relies on augmented reality technology. | |
| Vizcaya Museum and Gardens (Earmark: Enhancing the Vizcaya Visitor Experience through 3D Technologies) | 100,000.00 | 9 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7956 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To connect visitors with inaccessible museum holdings at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens through the use of 3D modeling and printing techniques, making visible via technology what would be physically impossible. | |
| Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (Earmark: Muse: Your Friendly Cultural Companion) | 150,000.00 | 4 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7944 | -- | Grant period: 05/08/2017 - 07/01/2018; goal: To support Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh’s development of Muse, a new visitor-facing mobile experience that engages museum visitors through fun and informative SMS chatbot messaging. | |
| Pérez Art Museum Miami (Earmark: Augmented Reality: Bringing Art to Life) | 185,000.00 | 1 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7955 | -- | Grant period: 04/01/2017 - 05/01/2018; goal: To support the use of technology to engage PAMM visitors with the collection by creating augmented reality experiences accessed through a mobile application. | |
| Akron Art Museum (Earmark: Building Data Capacity) | 173,329.00 | 2 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7942 | -- | Grant period: 02/28/2017 - 02/28/2018; goal: To help Akron Art Museum visitors better understand artwork in the permanent collection by supporting the research, development and implementation of technology that puts the knowledge of the curator at visitors’ fingertips. | |
| The Barnes Foundation (Earmark: Visual Collections Browser) | 155,000.00 | 3 | Arts, Technology | https://knightfoundation.org/grants/7943 | -- | Grant period: 02/10/2017 - 03/01/2018; goal: To develop technology that allows online visitors to browse works of art by visual characteristics. |
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