Ford Foundation donations made to University of Minnesota

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

ItemValue
Country
Facebook page UofMN
Websitehttp://twin-cities.umn.edu/
Twitter usernameumnews
Wikipedia pagehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Minnesota
Instagram usernameumnpics
Tumblr subdomainumndriven

Full donee page for donee University of Minnesota

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 14 200,000 229,279 110,000 120,000 135,000 150,000 200,000 200,000 225,000 300,000 319,945 399,964 400,000
FIXME 14 200,000 229,279 110,000 120,000 135,000 150,000 200,000 200,000 225,000 300,000 319,945 399,964 400,000

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 2016 2015 2014 2013 2011 2010 2008 2007
FIXME (filter this donor) 14 3,209,909.00 200,000.00 350,000.00 135,000.00 719,909.00 335,000.00 550,000.00 300,000.00 420,000.00 200,000.00
Total 14 3,209,909.00 200,000.00 350,000.00 135,000.00 719,909.00 335,000.00 550,000.00 300,000.00 420,000.00 200,000.00

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 (14 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 14)Donation dateCause areaURLInfluencerNotes
200,000.0072018-01-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to grow openGlobalRights, a web-based, global, multi-lingual public forum to serve as a critical debate platform on the state of the human rights movement. Affected regions: 1110###Worldwide###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0072016-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Humphrey School of Public Affairs to expand openGlobalRights, a web-based, global, multilingual public forum to promote dialogue on the current and future state of the human rights movement. Affected regions: 1110###Worldwide###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
150,000.00102016-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity to investigate the ways that laws, policies and practices affect development patterns in U.S. metropolitan regions. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
135,000.00122015-12-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs to expand openGlobalRights, a web-based, global, multilingual public forum to promote dialogue on the current and future state of the human rights movement. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
399,964.0022014-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity to investigate and promote understanding of the issues confronting racially segregated and low-income communities. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
319,945.0032014-03-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs to expand openGlobalRights, a Web-based, global, multilingual public forum to promote dialogue on the current and future state of the human rights movement. Affected regions: 1110###Worldwide###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
225,000.0062013-06-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity to study the impact of laws, policies & practices on development patterns in metropolitan areas, with a focus on social & economic disparity. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
110,000.00142013-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs to create openGlobalRights, a Web-based, global, multilingual public forum to promote dialogue on the current & future state of the human rights movement. Affected regions: 276###Developing Countries###50@@@1110###Worldwide###50; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
400,000.0012011-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute on Race & Poverty to investigate and promote understanding of the issues confronting racially segregated and low-income communities. Affected regions: 637###Minneapolis###40@@@964###St. Paul###40@@@1045###United States###20; @@@9177887###Racial ethnic minority; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
150,000.00102011-01-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Human Rights Center to build a new collection of economic, social and cultural rights-focused resources for Arabic speakers and disseminate it through its online Arabic Human Rights Library. Affected regions: 631###Middle East###50@@@712###North Africa###50; @@@; Middle East and North Africa; affected countries: FIXME.
300,000.0042010-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute of Race & Poverty to investigate and promote understanding of the issues confronting racially segregated and low-income communities. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
120,000.00132008-09-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Human Rights Center to expand and promote the Arabic version of its Web-based Human Rights Library. Affected regions: 631###Middle East###60@@@712###North Africa###40; @@@; Middle East and North Africa; affected countries: FIXME.
300,000.0042008-04-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- Core support for the Institute of Race and Poverty to investigate the ways that policies and practices disproportionately affect people of color and the disadvantaged. Affected regions: 1045###United States###100; 9177456###No Intention@@@9177414###Asian or Asian American@@@9177888###Black or African American@@@9177891###Latin American@@@9177892###Native American, American Indian, or Alaska Native; United States; affected countries: FIXME.
200,000.0072007-07-01FIXMEhttp://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/grants-database/grants-all-- For the Center for Democracy and Citizenship's Minnesota Works Together Project to create a multi-faceted democracy laboratory to invigorate civic life in the state. Affected regions: 638###Minnesota###100; @@@; United States; affected countries: FIXME.