Arnold Ventures donations made to American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ventures_LLC
Best overview URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ventures_LLC
Facebook username ArnoldVentures
Websitehttps://www.arnoldventures.org/
Donations URLhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/
Twitter usernamelja_foundation
Regularity with which donor updates donations dataquarterly refresh
Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)quarterly refresh
Lag with which donor updates donations datamonths
Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update)days
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/arnold-foundation-grants

Brief history: The foundation, started in 2008, has ramped up spending over time

Brief notes on broad donor philosophy and major focus areas: The foundation is making big bets in its focus areas of criminal justice reform, education (K-12), public accountability (pension reform, United States), and research integrity

Notes on grant publication logistics: Grants are published on the grants page, which is updated quarterly. There are no individual grant pages

Miscellaneous notes: This was formerly the Laura and John Arnold Foundation (LJAF)

Full donor page for donor Arnold Ventures

Basic donee information

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Country

Full donee page for donee American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences

Donor–donee relationship

Item Value

Donor–donee donation statistics

Cause areaCountMedianMeanMinimum10th percentile 20th percentile 30th percentile 40th percentile 50th percentile 60th percentile 70th percentile 80th percentile 90th percentile Maximum
Overall 5 319,476 910,851 2,587 2,587 2,587 190,000 190,000 319,476 319,476 542,193 542,193 3,500,000 3,500,000
Evidence-Based Policy 3 319,476 1,274,021 2,587 2,587 2,587 2,587 319,476 319,476 319,476 3,500,000 3,500,000 3,500,000 3,500,000
Sustainable Public Finance 2 190,000 366,097 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 190,000 542,193 542,193 542,193 542,193 542,193

Donation amounts by cause area and year

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 Total 2017 2016 2014 2013
Evidence-Based Policy (filter this donor) 3 3,822,063.00 319,476.00 3,500,000.00 0.00 2,587.00
Sustainable Public Finance (filter this donor) 2 732,193.00 0.00 190,000.00 542,193.00 0.00
Total 5 4,554,256.00 319,476.00 3,690,000.00 542,193.00 2,587.00

Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)

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Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)

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Full list of documents in reverse chronological order (0 documents)

There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.

Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (5 donations)

Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations

Graph of donations and their timeframes
Amount (current USD)Amount rank (out of 5)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
319,476.0032017Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To fund a randomized controlled trial of Literacy First.
3,500,000.0012016Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To advance evidence-based policymaking and promote the use of longitudinal data in education research.
190,000.0042016Sustainable Public Financehttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To conduct research on teachers' pensions in an effort to identify ways to improve fiscal sustainability of state pension systems.
542,193.0022014Sustainable Public Financehttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To expand access to public sector retirement research.
2,587.0052013Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To conduct a study focused on improving student performance.