Ford Foundation donations made to Public Knowledge

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 Public Knowledge in our system.

Full donee page for donee Public Knowledge

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 13 800,000 819,807 57,490 75,000 150,000 200,000 600,000 800,000 800,000 900,000 900,000 1,500,000 3,675,000
FIXME 13 800,000 819,807 57,490 75,000 150,000 200,000 600,000 800,000 800,000 900,000 900,000 1,500,000 3,675,000

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 2014 2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007
FIXME (filter this donor) 13 10,657,490.00 150,000.00 3,675,000.00 900,000.00 1,557,490.00 75,000.00 800,000.00 1,700,000.00 1,400,000.00 200,000.00 200,000.00
Total 13 10,657,490.00 150,000.00 3,675,000.00 900,000.00 1,557,490.00 75,000.00 800,000.00 1,700,000.00 1,400,000.00 200,000.00 200,000.00

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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 (13 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 13)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
150,000.00112018-06-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To develop capacities on telecommunications policy among Latin American digital rights civil society. Affected regions: 713###North America###20@@@936###South America###80; 9177456###No Intention@@@9190990###No Intention; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
3,675,000.0012017-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to promote freedom of expression, an open Internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works, and core support for institutional strengthening. Affected regions: 1045###United States###80@@@1110###Worldwide###20; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
900,000.0032016-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to promote freedom of expression, an open Internet, and access to affordable communications tools and creative works. Affected regions: 1045###United States###75@@@1110###Worldwide###25; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
57,490.00132014-10-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- To establish a regional resource center in Latin America to promote Internet freedom through coordination of digital rights and human rights activists and engagement of civil society organizations. Affected regions: 541###Latin America###100; 9177417###Female@@@9177418###Male@@@; Brazil; affected countries: FIXME.
1,500,000.0022014-02-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to preserve the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promote creativity and uphold and protect the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
75,000.00122013-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For consumer-focused research that makes the case for policies that preserve an open and democratic communications system and ensure that all Americans have access to affordable broadband service. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
800,000.0052012-10-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to preserve the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promote creativity and uphold and protect the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
800,000.0052011-10-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to preserve the openness of the Internet and the public's access to knowledge, promote creativity and uphold and protect the rights of consumers to use innovative technology lawfully. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
900,000.0032011-01-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support for research, public education, citizen action and peer coordination to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
800,000.0052009-12-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support for research, public education, citizen action and peer coordination to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
600,000.0082009-01-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support for research, public education, citizen action and peer coordination to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0092008-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- General support to defend citizens' rights in the emerging digital culture. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0092007-03-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Final support for capacity building, advocacy, on-line organizing, research and constituency building related to the information commons. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.