Arnold Ventures donations made to Bipartisan Policy Center

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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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page BipartisanPolicyCenter
Websitehttp://www.bipartisanpolicy.org/
Twitter usernameAParekhBPC
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartisan_Policy_Center
Instagram usernamebpc_bipartisan

Full donee page for donee Bipartisan Policy Center

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 9 349,979 366,453 181,576 181,576 255,042 288,470 313,529 349,979 349,979 500,000 500,000 559,500 559,500
Evidence-Based Policy 5 349,979 339,215 181,576 181,576 181,576 255,042 255,042 349,979 349,979 349,979 349,979 559,500 559,500
Health 1 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470 288,470
New Initiatives 1 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529 313,529
Sustainable Public Finance 2 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000 500,000

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 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014
Evidence-Based Policy (filter this donor) 5 1,696,076.00 436,618.00 699,958.00 559,500.00 0.00 0.00
Sustainable Public Finance (filter this donor) 2 1,000,000.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 500,000.00 500,000.00
New Initiatives (filter this donor) 1 313,529.00 0.00 313,529.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Health (filter this donor) 1 288,470.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 288,470.00
Total 9 3,298,075.00 436,618.00 1,013,487.00 559,500.00 500,000.00 788,470.00

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)

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Full list of donations in reverse chronological order (9 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 9)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
255,042.0082018Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To conduct a comprehensive review of how federal and state funding is being allocated to address the opioid epidemic.
181,576.0092018Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To support the placement of a higher education research fellow with the United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
349,979.0042017Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To educate stakeholders about implementing recommendations from the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.
313,529.0062017New Initiativeshttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To develop bipartisan policy recommendations to improve institutional responsibility for student outcomes.
349,979.0042017Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To educate stakeholders about implementing recommendations from the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking.
559,500.0012016Evidence-Based Policyhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To identify and disseminate best practices for incorporating evidence-based policymaking into the federal budgeting process.
500,000.0022015Sustainable Public Financehttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To support research on retirement security and disability insurance policies and programs.
288,470.0072014Healthhttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To produce informational materials that will guide the evaluation of programs designed to prevent disease and promote a healthy lifestyle.
500,000.0022014Sustainable Public Financehttps://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/-- To fund an evaluation of fiscal and economic policies and programs.