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| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ventures_LLC |
| Best overview URL | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Ventures_LLC |
| Facebook username | ArnoldVentures |
| Website | https://www.arnoldventures.org/ |
| Donations URL | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ |
| Twitter username | lja_foundation |
| Regularity with which donor updates donations data | quarterly refresh |
| Regularity with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | quarterly refresh |
| Lag with which donor updates donations data | months |
| Lag with which Donations List Website updates donations data (after donor update) | days |
| Data entry method on Donations List Website | SQL 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
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Facebook page | mymdrc |
| Website | http://www.mymdrc.org/ |
| Twitter username | MyMDRC |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translocator_protein |
Full donee page for donee MDRC
| Item | Value |
|---|
| 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 | 15 | 888,812 | 3,371,257 | 88,869 | 250,000 | 253,696 | 294,209 | 533,688 | 888,812 | 1,500,000 | 2,499,968 | 2,943,916 | 15,000,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Criminal justice reform | 5 | 650,637 | 1,093,589 | 88,869 | 88,869 | 88,869 | 253,696 | 253,696 | 650,637 | 650,637 | 888,812 | 888,812 | 3,585,932 | 3,585,932 |
| Sustainable Public Finance | 1 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Evidence-Based Policy | 8 | 1,804,132 | 5,418,864 | 275,000 | 275,000 | 294,209 | 533,688 | 1,804,132 | 1,804,132 | 2,499,968 | 2,943,916 | 15,000,000 | 20,000,000 | 20,000,000 |
| Health | 1 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 | 1,500,000 |
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 | Total | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evidence-Based Policy (filter this donor) | 8 | 43,350,913.00 | 2,499,968.00 | 2,943,916.00 | 20,808,688.00 | 1,804,132.00 | 294,209.00 | 15,000,000.00 |
| Criminal justice reform (filter this donor) | 5 | 5,467,946.00 | 4,490,265.00 | 977,681.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Health (filter this donor) | 1 | 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 1,500,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Sustainable Public Finance (filter this donor) | 1 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 250,000.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 15 | 50,568,859.00 | 6,990,233.00 | 3,921,597.00 | 20,808,688.00 | 3,554,132.00 | 294,209.00 | 15,000,000.00 |
Graph of spending by cause area and year (incremental, not cumulative)
Graph of spending by cause area and year (cumulative)
There are no documents associated with this combination of donor and donee.
Graph of all donations (with known year of donation), showing the timeframe of donations
| Amount (current USD) | Amount rank (out of 15) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 253,696.00 | 13 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To enable new cross-study analyses in order to inform the design and implementation of higher education policies and programs, by creating individual participant-level and study-level databases including data from past randomized controlled trials. | |
| 3,585,932.00 | 3 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To launch Phase I of the Scaling Up Community College Efforts for Student Success (SUCCESS) project to pilot and evaluate lower-cost student success interventions to improve such outcomes as completion and time-to-degree. | |
| 650,637.00 | 9 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To evaluate the Housing First with Shared Medical Appointment model in three jurisdictions. | |
| 2,499,968.00 | 5 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To evaluate the impact of Child First, a home visiting program for low-income families with young children at high risk of emotional, behavioral, or developmental problems and/or maltreatment. | |
| 88,869.00 | 15 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To assess the predictive validity of the Public Safety Assessment. | |
| 888,812.00 | 8 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To evaluate the Public Safety Assessment. | |
| 2,943,916.00 | 4 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support a randomized controlled trial of Career Academies in California high schools. | |
| 275,000.00 | 12 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support an ongoing randomized controlled trial of the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs model and its implementation at three community colleges in Ohio. | |
| 533,688.00 | 10 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To fund a replication randomized controlled trial of the City University of New York's Accelerated Study in Associate Programs at Westchester Community College. | |
| 20,000,000.00 | 1 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To study the impacts of preschool, summer curricula, and enhanced teacher training on early childhood learning. | |
| 1,500,000.00 | 7 | Health | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support the Improving Contraceptive Options Now research project. | |
| 1,804,132.00 | 6 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support the Expanding Children's Early Learning Project. | |
| 250,000.00 | 14 | Sustainable Public Finance | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To conduct research on Social Security Disability Insurance. | |
| 294,209.00 | 11 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To research policy questions about early childhood education and conduct an assessment of existing and proposed programs at the state and local level. | |
| 15,000,000.00 | 2 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To advance evidence-based policies that offer concrete, measurable, and lasting improvements to society. |