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/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 | UnivPennsylvania |
| Website | http://www.upenn.edu |
| Twitter username | Penn |
| Wikipedia page | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania |
| Instagram username | uofpenn |
Full donee page for donee University of Pennsylvania
| 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 | 7 | 329,060 | 1,278,994 | 67,000 | 67,000 | 213,574 | 247,706 | 247,706 | 329,060 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 832,119 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 |
| Criminal justice reform | 3 | 247,706 | 214,589 | 67,000 | 67,000 | 67,000 | 67,000 | 247,706 | 247,706 | 247,706 | 329,060 | 329,060 | 329,060 | 329,060 |
| Health | 1 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 | 213,574 |
| Education | 1 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 | 648,065 |
| Evidence-Based Policy | 1 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 | 832,119 |
| Sustainable Public Finance | 1 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 | 6,615,437 |
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 | 2013 | 2011 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable Public Finance (filter this donor) | 1 | 6,615,437.00 | 0.00 | 6,615,437.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Evidence-Based Policy (filter this donor) | 1 | 832,119.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 832,119.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Education (filter this donor) | 1 | 648,065.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 648,065.00 |
| Criminal justice reform (filter this donor) | 3 | 643,766.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 576,766.00 | 67,000.00 | 0.00 |
| Health (filter this donor) | 1 | 213,574.00 | 213,574.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| Total | 7 | 8,952,961.00 | 213,574.00 | 6,615,437.00 | 1,408,885.00 | 67,000.00 | 648,065.00 |
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 7) | Donation date | Cause area | URL | Influencer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 213,574.00 | 6 | Health | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To pilot a method of systematically collecting data about public and private healthcare payment practices to improve treatment of opioid use disorder. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 6,615,437.00 | 1 | Sustainable Public Finance | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support the expansion of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, which analyzes the economic and budgetary impact of federal budget policy reform proposals. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 329,060.00 | 4 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To fund a randomized controlled trial of an informational tool for public defenders designed to reduce sentencing disparities. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 832,119.00 | 2 | Evidence-Based Policy | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To support the first phase of the Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy Innovation project. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 247,706.00 | 5 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To fund a study of the effects of vertical and horizontal defense representation models on case and criminal justice outcomes. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 67,000.00 | 7 | Criminal justice reform | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To develop tools to assist law enforcement agencies and courts in responding to incidents of domestic violence. Affected states: Pennsylvania. | |
| 648,065.00 | 3 | Education | https://www.arnoldventures.org/grants/ | -- | To develop high-quality teachers in the Aldine Independent School District in Texas. Affected states: Pennsylvania. |