Ford Foundation donations made to New York Public Library

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.

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Basic donor information

ItemValue
Country United States
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Foundation
Facebook username FordFoundation
LinkedIn username ford-foundation
Websitehttps://www.fordfoundation.org
Donations URLhttps://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/
Twitter usernameFordFoundation
Page on philosophy informing donationshttps://www.fordfoundation.org/about-us/mission/
Grant application process pagehttps://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/idea-submission/
Data entry method on Donations List WebsiteSQL insertion commands generated by script https://github.com/riceissa/ford-foundation

Full donor page for donor Ford Foundation

Basic donee information

We do not have any donee information for the donee New York Public Library in our system.

Full donee page for donee New York Public Library

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 10 500,000 575,000 100,000 100,000 200,000 200,000 200,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 1,200,000
FIXME 10 500,000 575,000 100,000 100,000 200,000 200,000 200,000 500,000 500,000 750,000 1,000,000 1,100,000 1,200,000

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 2017 2016 2015 2014 2012 2010 2007
FIXME (filter this donor) 10 5,750,000.00 500,000.00 1,600,000.00 400,000.00 950,000.00 1,200,000.00 100,000.00 1,000,000.00
Total 10 5,750,000.00 500,000.00 1,600,000.00 400,000.00 950,000.00 1,200,000.00 100,000.00 1,000,000.00

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 (10 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 10)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
500,000.0052017-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Digital Vision Project to create the Author’s Portal, an online marketplace by which individual authors and their heirs can license their works for sale to libraries. Affected regions: 697###New York City###50@@@1045###United States###50; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
1,100,000.0022016-12-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture’s acquisition of the James Baldwin Archive and to make it accessible to the public. Affected regions: 697###New York City###50@@@1045###United States###50; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
500,000.0052016-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Digital Vision Project to create the Author’s Portal, an online marketplace by which individual authors and their heirs can license their works for sale to libraries. Affected regions: 696###New York###50@@@1045###United States###50; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0072015-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to explore African-American and Africa Diaspora history through scholarship, public programming and the arts. Affected regions: 9###Africa###20@@@407###Harlem###50@@@697###New York City###20@@@1110###Worldwide###10; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0072015-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the 10th anniversary season of LIVE from NYPL, a ticketed event series offering public programs featuring authors, artists, and public figures. Affected regions: 697###New York City###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0072014-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to explore African American and African Diaspora history through scholarship, innovative public programming and the arts. Affected regions: 9###Africa###20@@@1045###United States###60@@@1110###Worldwide###20; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
750,000.0042014-06-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For renovations of the Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and to fund the Schomburg MIRS curator position. Affected regions: 9###Africa###20@@@1045###United States###60@@@1110###Worldwide###20; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
1,200,000.0012012-05-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Endowment support for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's Scholars in Residence Program for scholars in the fields of African, African-American and African Diaspora studies. Affected regions: 9###Africa###20@@@1045###United States###60@@@1110###Worldwide###20; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
100,000.00102010-08-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture to reinstate its Junior Scholars Program to ground Afro-descendant youth in the histories and cultures of people throughout the African diaspora. Affected regions: 697###New York City###100; @@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
1,000,000.0032007-08-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Endowment support for the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture's scholar-in-residence program. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@9177888###Black or African American; United States; affected countries: FIXME.